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Resources Research Machining Services After 64 years at its old location on Harrison Street, the Central Machine Shop has changed its name to Research Machining Services and has moved into a brand new building. The new facility is in the just-constructed ADM Agricultural Innovation Center located at 694 South Russell Drive, across from MMDC (General Stores). All personnel, phone numbers and emails are the same as before, as is the shop's website www.purdue.edu/DP/Machineshop/. "The machine shop became a part of the Discovery Park family in 2010, and the new name better reflects its affiliation and mission," says Kris Davis, manager. Research Machining Services is equipped and staffed to perform work requiring precision machining, machining on large work pieces, and specialized fabrications which cannot be performed economically in departmental machine shops. Past projects have included fabrication of a prototype stainless steel jet fuel injection chamber for aeronautical and astronautical engineering, design and fabrication of prototype fish habitat tanks for the Aquaculture Research Center, design and fabrication of a closed environment growth chamber for horticulture and NASA, and design and fabrication of laser enclosures and precision mounts for the Bindley Bioscience Center. Timing Regulatory Applications with Proposal Submissions Many external funding agencies require evidence of Institutional Review Board (IRB) or Purdue Animal Care and Use Committee (PACUC) approval before release of funds to Purdue. Some sponsors such as NIH refer to this as a just-in-time process. In these cases, the investigator or administrative contact is asked to provide the date of IRB or PACUC protocol approval only if a proposal is likely to be funded. Other less standardized requests for regulatory information exist and could require additional measures. For example, some spon- sors prefer the title of a regulatory protocol be identical to that of the project proposal. Additional requirements can include obtaining signatures from the IRB or PACUC chair or additional verification forms to further affirm that the work is approved. Optimally, IRB or PACUC protocol applications should be submitted to the appropriate committee shortly after a proposal is submitted to a sponsor. Thus, following proposal submission, it is in the investiga- tor's best interest to have a regulatory plan for IRB or PACUC protocol submission in place for experiments requiring regulatory oversight. Deadlines for providing this information can be short; having approval in advance will assist the investigator in securing the funding upon request from the sponsor. Purdue's standard practices for providing regulatory approval infor- mation to a sponsor ascertain that projects involving human subjects or vertebrate animals are congruent with approved regulatory protocols. In the event that you are contacted directly by a sponsor for regulatory in- formation, please contact the Office of Research Integrity and Regulatory Affairs (vprregulatory@purdue.edu), or your SPS proposal specialist. Writer: Ianthe Bryant Gawthrop is director of research regulatory compliance in the Office of the Vice President for Research. 10 OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH Photo: Rohini Sampoornam Swaminathan