Government Resources

 

The Office of Government and Community Relations is the university's portal to local, state and federal government resources:

Government Offices

Elected Officials Representing ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½

Federal Government on the Web

Other U. S. Government Agencies and Organizations

Key Federal Research-Related Rules, Regulations, and Guidelines

    • Federal law governing rights in and commercialization of inventions developed under federal funding. A useful overview is available at this web address.
    • Establishes principles for determining costs applicable to grants, contracts, and other agreements with educational institutions.
    • OMB's standards for obtaining consistency and uniformity among federal agencies in administration of grants to and agreements with institutions of higher education, hospitals, and other non-profit organizations.
    • FOIA generally provides that any person has a right enforceable in court, to obtain access to federal agency records, except to the extent that such records are protected from disclosure by one of nine exemptions or by one of three special law enforcement record exclusions.
    • Agreement governing transfer of tangible materials, usually biological, from one institution to another. Scientific Organizations