Overview

This course is part of the “RCR@UMD” catalog, which houses the university’s Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training series. All UMD researchers are expected to complete RCR training, which was designed to accomplish the following:

• To broadly foster a culture of research integrity by aiding our research community in understanding the expectations for conducting all aspects of their research responsibly;
• To provide a foundation for acting in accordance with those expectations by offering guidance, best practices, and tools;
• To ensure appropriate stewardship of funds that support our important work;
• To help our researchers fulfill related training requirements.

Appropriate mentor-mentee relationships are vital to the responsible conduct of research and are a core component of fostering research integrity. Mentorship provides the means through which we create and support robust, sound research environments, train the next generation of researchers (technically, professionally, and ethically), and propagate model behaviors for conducting research responsibly.

Accordingly, all researchers at the University of Maryland are expected to: engage in appropriate mentorship practices; foster safe, healthy, positive mentor/mentee relationships; and be aware of their responsibilities as mentors and mentees, respectively.