Graduate Student Employee Resources
All employees
- All employees must complete “Discrimination and harassment training” as described on the Office of Discrimination and Harassment web page.
Employees working in a laboratory environment must
complete the following training and gain approval
from the appropriate institutional boards. Failure
to do so may prevent you from being able to publish
your research or result in closure of your research
lab.
- Anyone working in a lab with chemical or biological materials or who use or generate hazardous waste must complete Hazardous Materials training.
- Anyone working with anything that is radioactive – even a sealed radioactive source – must complete the Radiation Safety training.
- Those performing work with live biological agents such as viruses, bacteria or mammalian cells must obtain approval from the Institutional Biosafety Committee.
- Those who perform work with any live animals at CU Boulder must first get approval from the Institutional Animal Use and Care Committee (IACUC). Our departmental IACUC representative is Professor Ferguson. Work with her to write your protocols as she will represent them at the monthly IACUC meeting.
- Those performing any research involving human subjects, even just taking data via a questionnaire, must first obtain approval from the Human Research Committee.
- The University of Colorado is committed to the ethical and responsible conduct of research. However, should you ever experience concern recarding ethics in research, you can contact the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct.
- Other research related information can be found on the web site for the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and on the web site for the Graduate School.
Teaching assistants and graders
- Graduate students or postdoctoral researchers may use the Graduate Teacher Program for teacher training and professional development. Several certification options are also available to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are interested in teaching.