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Texas A&M University

Division of Research

The Division of Research is committed to a truly comprehensive university where students, researchers and inventors bring scholarship and innovation to bear for the benefit of the community, the state and the nation.

Executive Orders

As you may be aware, several Executive Orders issued by the new presidential administration may impact proposal submissions, funded research and new awards. Federal agencies are taking individual actions. To keep the research community up to date as this matter continues to develop, the Division of Research has established a weblog to serve as a resource.

Research

Compliance


Ensure the integrity of your research with guidance and programs supporting biosafety, animal care, human research protection and occupational health, ensuring the highest standards in all aspects of proposing, conducting and reporting research.

Obtain approval for research or teaching with animals by submitting an Animal Use Protocol (AUP) through iRIS. Ensure compliance with regulations for vertebrate animals, tissues or fluids used in research or teaching.

Safeguard participant rights and welfare in research through the Human Research Protection Program (HRPP), supporting compliance across Texas A&M University, including branch campuses, Texas A&M Health and the School of Law.

Obtain approval from the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) before initiating research, teaching or testing involving biohazards.

Coordinates health services for personnel handling biohazards or animals.

Promote open research and intellectual exchange while complying with U.S. export control laws, ensuring responsible handling of controlled information, controlled physical items and sanctioned transactions to safeguard national and economic security interests.

Disclose and manage financial or outside interests through the university’s transparent system, ensuring research integrity and preventing conflicts that could affect study design, data, oversight or institutional responsibilities.

Develop ethical research practices with essential knowledge and tools to ensure integrity in authorship, data management, collaboration, safety and compliance.

Secure prior approval to host visiting scholars accessing research or clinical facilities, ensuring alignment with departmental, divisional, and institutional requirements for collaboration and resource use.

Provides guidance and support for obtaining transparency related to foreign components of your research.

Centers, Institutes and Core Facilities

Research centers and institutes play an important role in the academic landscape at Texas A&M, bringing together scholars and scientists—often from different disciplines—to tackle major research challenges.

Core facilities are an essential part of Texas A&M University’s research infrastructure, providing critical resources for groundbreaking research. By ensuring more efficient resource utilization, shared research facilities are a cost-effective way to leverage research expertise and specialized instruments.

The division maintains up-to-date fact sheets about itself, the research enterprise, support services, compliance issues, programs, centers, institutes, core facilities and the research communities at Texas A&M.

By the numbers

#1 in the nation
in National Science Foundation (NSF) funding
(NSF HERD Survey (fiscal 2022)
1 of 24 Universities
to hold the designation as a land-, sea-, and space-grant university and an Associations of American Universities member
First University in texas to exceed $1 Billion
in total research expenditures
$1.278 billion in fiscal 2023