Re: Principal Investigator?

["Frank E. Gallagher, III" <fegallag@uci.edu>]

At the University of California, Irvine, a principal investigator on a
grant can be anyone from a senior faculty member to a junior postdoc (if
he/she has a faculty sponsor), so for radiation safety purposes, we use the
term "Responsible Principal Investigator" (RPI) for the person holding the
internal permit (Radiation Use Authorization) issued by the Radiation
Safety Committee.  They are usually faculty members, but can be other
employees approved on a case-by-case basis (such as the RSO for our
calibration sources and the Hazardous Waste Manager for radwaste processing
and storage).   A couple of University of California campuses use the term
"Responsible User" to get away from the Sponsored Research definition of a PI.

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Radiation Safety Officer		Irvine, CA    92697-2725
University of California, Irvine		(949) 824-6904 [Phone]
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At 01:44 PM 10/06/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>For those of you at Universities, what is your definition of a 
>Principal Investigator? and how do you determine who can and who 
>cannot be a Principal Investigator authorized to use radioactive 
>material?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>denny
>----------------------
>Denis J. Rinkacs, Jr.
>Radiation Safety Officer
>Carnegie Mellon University
>4400 5th Ave.
>Pittsburgh, PA 15213
>412-268-3221
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>dr4i@MAIL1.andrew.cmu.edu
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