Exempt research projects present risks so benign to the human subjects who participate in them, that the federal regulations, (45 CFR 46.104), say such projects are exempt from full Institutional Review Board (IRB) review. However, these categories of research are not exempt from expedited review by The College of St. Scholastica IRB. The purpose of this document is to describe research activities involving human subjects that meet exemption criteria under 45 CFR 46.104.