About

The Institutional Review Board exists as a standing committee.
It consists of at least five members, including:
- A member of the Psychology Department
- A member of the Sociology-Anthropology Department
- A member whose primary concerns are in non-scientific areas
- A representative of the public from the local community who does not have active ties to the College or to the organization sponsoring the research
- An administrator (ex officio)
The chair of the committee is appointed by the administration of the College. The community representative is invited by the Dean of the Faculty to serve on a yearly basis. The community member may serve as many consecutive terms as they are is invited to and willing to serve.
2022-23 IRB Members
- Sayaka Abe, Japanese Studies
- Janet Brennan, Community Member
- Marcia Collaer, Psychology
- David Mohr, Translation and Localization Management
- Jake Pirkkanen, Scientific Technical Support Services (non-voting)
- Jim Ralph, Dean of Faculty Development & Research (ex officio)
- Andrea Robbett, Economics (Chair)
- Thor Sawin, Teaching Foreign Languages/ Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Michael Sheridan, Anthropology
- Gyula Zsombok, French and Francophone Studies
IRB Administration
Jake Pirkkanen
Associate Director for Research Compliance
- Email:
- jpirkkanen@middlebury.edu
- Tel:
- (802) 443-3053
- Office:
- McCardell Bicentennial Hall 329