Institutional Review Board

The Alma College Institutional Review Board (IRB) must review and approve any formal research study involving human subjects before the study begins. It is the responsibility of the IRB to protect the rights and safety of research subjects. The board reviews all proposed studies in order to ensure that research is conducted at Alma College, or by College personnel, in a manner consistent with the principles of the Belmont Report and all applicable laws.

If you have questions regarding the IRB, please contact Dr. Alex Montoye at montoyeah@alma.edu or (989) 463-7923.

Policies and Procedures and IRB Application

• IRB Policies and Procedures
• IRB Application
  • We recommend that you complete your IRB application in this template, and then copy and paste your responses into Qualtrics when ready to submit. If you start an application in Qualtrics but do not submit it, it may not save, so completing in the Word document will ensure that you do not lose your work.
• Qualtrics Policies

2023 IRB Meeting Dates and Application Submission Deadlines
Meeting Date	Application Submission Date
Week of January 23	January 20, 2023
Week of February 20	February 17, 2023
Week of March 13	March 10, 2023

 

2021-22 IRB Membership Roster
Name	IRB Role	Affiliation
Dr. Alex Montoye	Chair	Faculty, IPHS
Dr. Kelly Cuccolo	Assistant to the Chair	Faculty, Psychology
Dr. Hyun Kim	Secretary	Faculty, IPHS
Dr. Ruth Chaplen	Member	Faculty, Nursing
Dr. Bill Gorton	Member	Faculty, Political Science (non-scientist)
John MacArthur	Member	Director of Institutional Research (non-scientist)
Sue Malone	Member	Community member (unaffiliated with Alma College; non-scientist)
Dr. Jessie Store	Member	Faculty, Education

Examples of Informed Consent Documents

• Intervention Studies
• Survey Research

Federal Protection of Human Subjects

United States federal law CFR Title 45: Public Welfare, Part 46: Protection of Human Subjects, or the “Common Rule,” was originally passed by congress in 1974.  This law sets forth the basic ethical principles that should underlie the conduct of biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects and provides guidelines which should be followed to assure that such research is conducted in accordance with those principles.

The Belmont Report

The Belmont Report is a condensed summary of the basic ethical principles identified by the Commission in the course of its deliberations. It is the product of lengthy discussions held in February 1976 at the Smithsonian Institution’s Belmont Conference Center. The findings are supplemented by subsequent discussions within the Commission over a period of nearly four years. It is a statement of basic ethical principles and guidelines that should guide resolution of ethical problems that surround the conduct of research with human subjects. The report was published in 1979.