Ms. Tracy Arwood is currently the Associate Vice President and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at Clemson University. In this role, she manages an enterprise-wide compliance and ethics program that provides guidance and oversight with respect to the vast range of legal requirements affecting institutions of higher learning.
Formerly, she was the Assistant Vice President for Research at Clemson University. In that role, she managed the operations of the Office of Research Compliance, to include the IRB (Human Subjects), IBC (Biosafety/rDNA) and IACUC (Animal), and the Office of Research Safety (Lab Safety, Chemical Safety, Biosafety, Radiological Safety and Hazardous Waste Management). As the University's Research Integrity Officer, Ms. Arwood also provided oversight for the handling of research misconduct allegations and the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training program.
Previously, Ms. Arwood was the Director of Regulatory Compliance at Mississippi State University (MSU). While at MSU, she also served as the prisoner representative on the MSU IRB based on her experience as an Ombudsman within the Virginia Department of Corrections.
Ms. Arwood is a regular presenter at Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research's (PRIMR) and National Council of University Research Administrators’ (NCURA) annual conferences and is also co-author of various Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) social and behavioral science modules. Ms. Arwood holds a BS and a MS in Criminal Justice from Radford University in Virginia and is a certified paralegal.