UNM’s Office of the Vice President for Research is sponsoring a symposium on “Fostering Integrity in Research” on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 from 11 am to 6 p.m. in the auditorium of Centennial Engineering Center (CEC 1041). The symposium is organized by William Gannon, the developer of the UNM Research Ethics and Integrity Program along with a faculty advisory group.
Although this is the 2nd annual spring ethics symposium, this year’s event presents more information on the foundation of scientific integrity as well as practical experience of researchers at the top of their field.
“This is a critical time for UNM and research,” Gannon says, “and this symposium is aimed at the professional researcher as well as graduate students to get us all to think about the implications of conducting research responsibly.”
The program will be broken down into three sessions, from 11 a.m. to 1:10 p.m., from 1:40 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. and from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. with registration activities beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Session 1
11 a.m. Welcome and personal reflections on integrity in research from
David S. Schmidly, Ph.D. President of UNM
Suzanne Ortega, Ph.D. Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
Richard S. Larson, Ph.D., M.D. HSC Vice President for Translational Research
Julia E. Fulghum, Ph.D. Vice President for Research
11:30 a.m. Are There Any Moral Truths?
Paul Katsafanas, Ph.D. UNM Department of Philosophy
12 p.m. Fostering Integrity in Research: It’s the Culture, not the Crime
William L. Gannon, Ph.D. Office of the Vice President for Research, Research Ethics and Integrity Program & UNM Department of Biology
12:30 p.m Assessing What Researcher Ethics Training Researchers Really Want.
Teddy Warner, Ph.D. Depts. of Family & Community Medicine and Psychology
Session II
1:40 p.m. Should Scientists Become Business Entrepreneurs? Ethics and the Intersection of Science and Business
Lisa Kuuttila, President & CEO, STC.UNM
2:10 p.m. Nanotechnology and Nanoethics
Charles B. Fleddermann, Ph.D. Acting Dean, Graduate Studies and Associate Dean, School of Engineering
2:40 p.m. What is Missing in the Ethics of Animal Research?
John P. Gluck Jr., Ph.D. UNM Department of Psychology
Session III
3:30 p.m. The Research Relationship: How Science and Humanism Combine in Research with Traditional Peoples.
Hillard Kaplan, Ph.D. Professor, UNM Anthropology Department
4:30 p.m. Navigating Neuroethics: Where Are We Headed?
Vincent P. Clark, Ph.D. Scientific Director, Mind Research Network and UNM Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience
5 p.m. Research with Stem Cells: Facts, Myths and Ethical Issues.
Xinyu Zhao, Ph.D. UNM Department of Neuroscience
The symposium is free and open to the academic community, but registration is requested. Register here
Continuing education credits (PDH and CEU’s) are available through prior arrangement.
For more information, please contact William L. Gannon, (505) 277-3488 or wgannon@unm.edu or Charles Fleddermann, acting dean for Graduate Studies at (505) 277-5521 or cbf@unm.edu
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by kwentworth at April 15, 2009 08:38 AM