David B. Allison (NAM), Committee Member is Dean, Distinguished Professor, and Provost Professor at the Indiana University Bloomington School of Public Health. Prior, he was Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed Professor, and Director of the NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has authored over 600 scientific publications and received many awards, including the 2018 Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award from the American Statistical Association, the 2002 Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society, the Andre Mayer Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity, and the National Science Foundation Administered 2006 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. In 2009, he was awarded the Centrum Award from the American Society of Nutrition and the TOPS research achievement award from The Obesity Society. The NIH is funding him to organize and teach in national courses to improve research rigor. Professor Allison is committed to fostering the highest levels of rigor and integrity in the conduct of scientific research. Dr. Allison was a speaker and lead organizer for “Reproducibility of Research and Issues of Analysis” at the NAS Colloquium in 2017 and a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s panel on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science.
John L. Anderson is president of the National Academy of Engineering since July 1, 2019. He was born in Wilmington, DE, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware in 1967 and Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971, both in chemical engineering. He was most recently Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and president (2007–2015) of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Before that he was provost and executive vice president at Case Western Reserve University (2004–2007), following 28 years at Carnegie Mellon University, including 8 years as dean of the College of Engineering and 11 years as head of the Chemical Engineering Department. He began his professional career as an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Cornell University (1971–1976). Dr. Anderson was elected to the NAE in 1992 for contributions to the understanding of colloidal hydro-dynamics and membrane transport phenomena and was elected an NAE councillor in 2015. His service also includes numerous National Academies activities, such as the Committee on Determining Basic Research Needs to Interrupt the Improvised Explosive Device Delivery Chain (chair); Committee on Review of Existing and Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques (chair); Organizing Committee for the National Security and Homeland Defense Workshop (cochair); Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (cochair); and Ford Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Review Panel on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering. In addition to his NAE membership, Dr. Anderson is a
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fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was appointed to the National Science Board in 2014 for a six-year term. He received the Acrivos Professional Progress Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and an award from the Pittsburgh Section of AIChE for “Outstanding Professional Accomplishments in the Field of Academics,” and he is listed on the Alumni Wall of Fame at the University of Delaware. In 2012, he received the National Engineering Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies. He has held visiting professorships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation), University of Melbourne (Australia), and Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen (the Netherlands).
Erica Baranski is an assistant professor in the Psychology Department at California State University - East Bay. She received her BA from The University of Texas, Austin, and her Ph.D. in social and personality psychology from the University of California at Riverside in 2018. Her research focuses on mechanisms of personality change over the life course, specifically how individuals actively work toward their own personality change. She is also the lead administrator of the International Situations Project.
Wenda K. Bauchspies is a social scientist specializing in science, technology, and gender in West Africa from a cultural perspective. Dr. Bauchspies’ research interests include women and schooling, everyday technologies of water and electricity, and adoptions/adaptions of agricultural innovations. Her home institution is Michigan State University where she is a Co-Director for International Research and Engagement for The Center for Gender in a Global Context. Presently, she is a Program Director for the National Science Foundation for the Ethical and Responsible Research Program and Science and Technology Studies Program.
Rosalyn W. Berne is the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics, and Director of the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science (OEC), in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Virginia. As a scholar, Berne explores the intersecting realms of emerging technologies, science, fiction and myth, and the links between the human and non-human worlds. Her research and writing span considerations of ethics in engineering practice, biotechnology and nanotechnology, and ethics in engineering education. Published under her name are two academic books—Nanotalk: Conversations with Scientists and Engineers about Ethics, Meaning, and Belief in the Development of Nanotechnology (2006) and Creating Life from Life: Biotechnology and Science Fiction (2014); numerous conference papers and journal articles; Waiting in the Silence (2012)–An SF novel with an ethics focus; and two award winning books in the genre of body-mind-spirit: When the Horses Whisper (2013) and Waking to Beauty (2016). On leave from UVA from 2009–2011, she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs for the Institute for Shipboard Education. On leave from UVA from 2018-2020 Dr. Berne served as Director of the Center for Engineering Ethics and Society at the National Academy of Engineering. She is emerita advisor to the “Engineering One Planet” project of the Lemelson Foundation; advisor to the Kern Family Foundation KEEN (Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network) project, “Educating the Whole Engineer: Engineering Fundamentals, Character Education, and Entrepreneurial Mindset; a Standing Council Member of the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA); a member of the education committee for the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (“The IEEE
Global Initiative”); and serves on the ethics committee of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Katie Bode-Lang is the Director of Research Education, Quality, and Integrity in the Office for Research Protections at Penn State University. Her team oversees research ethics education for the University, including the Research Integrity & Scholarly Ethics (RISE) program. The team also handles quality assurance and research misconduct. Bode-Lang has worked for the office since 2014. Previously, she was the assistant director of a research center in the College of Health and Human Development and taught in the College of Liberal Arts.
Gundula Bosch has interests that focus on the development, oversight, and evaluation of science and health education programs. In her function as the Director of the R3 Center for Innovation in Science Education (R3ISE) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she leads the R3 Graduate Science Programs that stand for “the three R’s” of good scientific practice: Rigor in research conduct, Reproducibility of results, and Responsibility of scientists to society. Originally from Munich, Germany, she holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and a master’s degree in Education from Johns Hopkins. As an active, interdisciplinary researcher with a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Public Health and Education, Dr. Bosch’s scholarly focus lies in developing assessment methods to evaluate fundamental research skills in good scientific practice. Supported by her R3ISE team, Dr. Bosch produces graduate-level programs (PMID: 29259084; PMID: 29446388) that bring formal training in critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, interdisciplinary collaboration, ethical decision-making, effective communication and leadership into graduate student training in biomedicine, public health, engineering, and technology. Through the global R3ISEnetwork, these training experiences are available to all graduate and post-graduate trainees at Johns Hopkins, as well as national and international partner institutions.
Arturo Casadevall (NAM), Committee Chair is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease research, with a focus on fungal and bacterial pathogenesis and basic immunology of antibody structure-function. In addition to his laboratory research interests Dr. Casadevall is interested in the process by which science is done and has proposed measures for reforming the conduct of science.
Rita R. Colwell (NAS), Committee Member is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, senior advisor and chair emeritus at Canon US Life Sciences, Inc., and president and chair of CosmosID, Inc. Her interests are in global infectious diseases, water, and health. Dr. Colwell developed an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world, in collaboration with Safe Water Network, headquartered in New York City. As director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1998 to 2004, she co-chaired the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council. Before joining NSF, she was president
of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute and a professor of microbiology and biotechnology. She was also a member of the National Science Board from 1984 to 1990. She is the author of the book “A Lab of One’s Own.”
Chau De Ming is a molecular biologist with experience in cancer research. He studies the characteristics of cancer stem cells and its contribution to cancer. Dr. Chau leads the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia's RCR Programme to provide RCR training, produce RCR educational content and train RCR trainers. He also conducts RCR research to understand the landscape of RCR in Malaysia and in the region. Dr. Chau is the Co-Chair of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) RCR Project and a committee member of the National Committee on Research Integrity of Malaysia. He contributed to the development of the Malaysian Code of Responsible Conduct in Research (MCRCR) and the establishment of a national training programme to educate researchers in Malaysia about MCRCR.
Lise M. Dobrin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where she is also affiliated with the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics. She conducts linguistic, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical research on Arapesh language and culture in Papua New Guinea. She has a special interest in the cultural aspects of language preservation, including how and why communities shift their allegiance from their local vernacular to a language of wider communication; the technical, philological, and ethical dimensions of language documentation, description, and archiving; and the epistemologies and politics of community-based and collaborative initiatives in linguistic research and revitalization. She is a longtime member of the University of Virginia Social and Behavioral Sciences IRB and serves as coordinator of her department’s Responsible Conduct of Research program, the Fieldwork, Ethics, and Ethnographic Writing workshop.
Kyle Ferguson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is the program coordinator for the NYU–University of Ghana Research Integrity Training Program (NYU-UG RITP; R25TWA10886; PIs: Caplan, Ogedegbe, & Laar), a five-year capacity-building program funded by the Fogarty International Center, NIH. NYU-UG RITP is producing a core group of thirty expert researchers who have mastery of research ethics, research integrity, and research governance in Ghana. NYU-UG RITP has also established Ghana’s first bioethics master’s degree program at UG School of Public Health, which launches this year. Kyle works on a broad range of ethical and philosophical issues that arise when we design and conduct research on health and the environment and when we imagine and evaluate ways of using new knowledge and technologies to improve our lives and world. His current research projects are on vaccine ethics, global health ethics, and environmental ethics. This year, supported by a grant from the NYU Provost’s Climate Change Initiative, he co-founded with Dale Jamieson and Arthur Caplan the NYU Working Group on Climate and Health, which brings together faculty and researchers from across NYU’s many schools to develop a research program on building societal resilience to climate change–related catastrophic health risks. Kyle holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Augustana College. Before coming to NYU, he taught philosophy at Hunter College and Baruch College, both of CUNY, and medical ethics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
David Gebler, Committee Member is senior manager for ethics engagement and integrated education at Lockheed Martin, where he develops strategies to ensure that the company’s innovative ethics education and engagement initiatives meet the highest standard. He leads efforts to develop, maintain and implement an integrated education strategy for ethics awareness, and business conduct compliance training, including both formal and informal training and related communications. From 2008 to 2017 he was president of the Skout Group, which developed and deployed proprietary diagnostic tools that help companies improve decision making and enhance performance through better understanding and management of the nonfinancial, intangible aspects of their businesses. Mr. Gebler is the author of The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Remove the Roadblocks to Performance.
C. K. Gunsalus is Director of the National Center for Principled Leadership & Research Ethics (NCPRE), Professor Emerita of Business, and Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. At NCPRE, she is the PI for a $2.6 million project funded by HHMI for leadership development tailored to lab environments, and a co-PI on a project funded by the Sloan Foundation with the American Geophysical Union, Catalyzing Cultural Change in the Sciences with New Resources and Tracking Tools. Gunsalus is the Illinois lead for a project creating an academic leadership academy with and for Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, now in its sixth year. Before co-founding NCPRE, she was on the faculty of the colleges of Business, Law, and Medicine at Illinois, served terms in the offices of the provost and vice chancellor for research, and as Special Counsel in the Office of University Counsel. Her service includes the Committee on Responsible Science of the National Academy of Sciences that produced the Fostering Integrity in Research Report (2017), the Illinois Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism (2005-2013), the US Commission on Research Integrity (1995), and four years as chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. She has written a book for academic leaders published by the Harvard University Press, The College Administrator’s Survival Guide (2006; revised edition 2021), and one about preventing and responding to workplace challenges, The Young Professional’s Survival Guide: From Cab Fares to Moral Snares (Harvard Press, 2012).
Edward J. Hackett, Committee Member is professor emeritus in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, where he has also held appointments in the School of Sustainability, School of Life Sciences, and Consortium for Science Policy & Outcomes. From 2015-2020 he was vice provost for research and professor in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He was a founding member of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1984 to 1998). As an NSF rotator, he directed the Division of Social and Economic Sciences (2006 to 2008) and the Science and Technology Studies program (1996 to 1998). He was lead editor of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (3rd ed., MIT Press, 2008) and has been editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values since 2012. He has written about various topics in the science of science, including collaboration, scientific synthesis, and peer review.
Ida Hoequist is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Their undergraduate degree was in the ethics of linguists’ research on endangered languages, and, as a
result of that early commitment to developing more ethically responsible methods, their own current research on an endangered long-distance communication system in Papua New Guinea spans linguistics, anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Hoequist has also brought their understanding of scholars’ responsibilities to the people around them to the positions they have held in their department, including serving as the head of the Graduate Student Collective and representative to the faculty; working with their Diversity & Inclusion Coalition; and serving as graduate student coordinator of the Anthropology Department’s Fieldwork, Ethics, and Ethnographic Writing workshop.
Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Committee Member is the Administrator of the ARS, USDA’s chief scientific in-house research agency. Prior to joining ARS, Dr. Jacobs-Young served in several scientific leadership roles including Director of the USDA Office of the Chief Scientist, Acting Director for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), and Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In these roles she transformed USDA’s scientific coordination and made a lasting impact on the conduct, quality, integrity, and access to science for customers. In these roles she also elevated the visibility of agricultural research globally. Dr. Jacobs-Young is a native of Augusta, Georgia. She holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Wood and Paper Science and a B.S. degree in Pulp and Paper Science and Technology from North Carolina State University. She is also a graduate of American University's Key Executive Program. Dr. Jacobs-Young is a member of the World Food Prize Foundation’s Council of Advisors, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, an If/Then Ambassador for the AAAS, and a 2016 recipient of the Presidential Rank Award.
Michael Kalichman, Committee Member, trained in engineering and neuropharmacology, has taught research ethics since 1990. He retired in 2021 as founding director of the UC San Diego Research Ethics Program (24 years), Center for Ethics in Science and Technology (17 years), and ethics service for the NIH CTSA-funded Clinical and Translational Research Institute (11 years). He taught train-the-trainer, research ethics workshops throughout the U.S. and in Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and helped to create an Asia Pacific Research Integrity Network. The focus of his NIH- and NSF-funded research is the goals, content, and methods for cultivating a culture of research ethics.
Amy Kullas is the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)’s Ethics Director. Kullas is responsible for oversight and management of ASM’s organizational ethics policies and procedures program. She oversees and facilitates the reporting process, discussions and resolution of allegations relating to science ethics, misconduct and harassment. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology from Stony Brook University.
Frances S. Ligler (NAE), Committee Member is the Ross Lampe Distinguished Professor of Biomedical. Prior to joining NC State and UNC Chapel Hill in 2013, she was at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory for 28 years, during the last 18 of which she was the U.S. Navy Senior Scientist for Biosensors and Biomaterials. She earned a B.S. from Furman University and both a D.Phil. and a D.Sc. from Oxford University. She has over 400 full-length publications and patents, which have led to eleven commercial biosensor products and have been cited over 20000 times with H=83 (Google Scholar). She was elected an SPIE Fellow in 2000, member of the
National Academy of Engineering in 2005, a Fellow of AIMBE in 2011, a Fellow of AAAS in 2013, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2016, and an Honorary Member of the Hellenic Society for Nanotechnology in Health Sciences in 2017. In 2003, she was awarded the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Senior Professional by President Bush. In 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Senior Professional by President Obama. In 2014 and 2018, she was awarded honorary doctorates from the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece and Furman University, respectively. She is a 2017 inductee of the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame, honored for her invention of portable optical biosensors.
Tristan McIntosh is an Assistant Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WU) where she leads federally-funded and foundation-funded research on ethical, social, and professional issues in research and medicine. She is also the Director of Evaluation at the Bioethics Research Center at WU. Having earned her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Oklahoma, Dr. McIntosh applies this expertise to studying mechanisms (e.g., training, leadership and management practices) for cultivating ethical research conduct and workplace cultures at the research team and institutional levels. Her research also seeks to identify factors that affect professional decision-making and support responsible navigation of academia-industry research partnerships. She directs the research ethics course for doctoral students in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at WU and has taught research ethics workshops throughout the U.S.
Brian Nosek is co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science (http://cos.io/) that operates the OSF (http://osf.io/)—a collaborative management service for registering studies and archiving and sharing research materials and data. COS is enabling open and reproducible research practices worldwide. Brian is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2002. He co-founded Project Implicit (http://projectimplicit.net/), a multi-university collaboration for research and education investigating implicit cognition—thoughts and feelings that occur outside of awareness or control. Brian investigates the gap between values and practices, such as when behavior is influenced by factors other than one's intentions and goals. Research applications of this interest include implicit bias, decision-making, attitudes, ideology, morality, innovation, barriers to change, open science, and reproducibility. In 2015, he was named one of Nature’s 10 and to the Chronicle for Higher Education Influence list.
Dena Plemmons is Director of the Research Ethics Education Program at the University of California, Riverside. She is an anthropologist by training, but in the last 12 years has focused her intellectual curiosity and research agenda in the area of research integrity, broadly defined. She has taught research ethics across the spectrum, from undergraduates to physicians and faculty, and has consistently been funded, as PI and Co-PI through both NIH and NSF, for her research, which includes curriculum development in research ethics, and investigations into both common and best practices in areas of scientific practice both nationally and internationally. She serves on the Executive Board of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, and is the Editor in Chief of the SpringerNature journal Science and Engineering Ethics.
Julie Simpson is the Director of Research Integrity Services (RIS) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and an Affiliate Assistant Professor of College Teaching and of
Education. She has worked at UNH for 29 years. Her office administers UNH’s human subjects protections and the Institutional Review Board (IRB), humane care and use of animals and the Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC), and responsible conduct of research and scholarly activity (RCR) program and RCR Committee, as well as UNH’s financial conflict of interest in research and HIPAA programs. She is a member of UNH’s IRB, IACUC, RCR Committee and UNH’s Radiation Safety Committee. She is UNH’s Research Integrity Officer (RIO). She co-developed and co-teaches UNH’s GRAD 930: Ethics in Research and Scholarship, a cross-disciplinary graduate seminar that has been offered since 2005. She was the UNH project director for an Office of Research Integrity (ORI) grant to develop web based RCR training materials. She is an IRB member at three other New England organizations.
Michael Verderame is the Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the Pennsylvania State University where his current responsibilities include oversight of Graduate Student Services and representing the interests of the Graduate School on the curricular review committee of the faculty governance body. Prior to this position, he was a faculty member at the Penn State College of Medicine conducting research in basic cancer biology and teaching medical and graduate students for over 25 years, ultimately being honored as a College of Medicine Distinguished Educator. Dr. Verderame served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the College of Medicine, where, among other activities, he taught responsible conduct of research to graduate students. While serving as associate dean, he was also active in the Association of American Medical College’s Graduate Research Educational and Training (GREAT) professional development group, serving as chair of its steering committee. He has a long-standing interest in research to improve graduate education.
Yan Wang is an information management researcher by training and obtained her Ph.D. from Tilburg University in The Netherlands. She has extensive business process management background in international settings. Her research work has always been about managing complex service ecosystem, including projects on telecom service ecosystems, humanitarian simulation exercises and international education project coordination. Since 2018, Wang started working on data management as the Data Steward of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) where she supported researchers with disciplinary data management issues, advised on faculty data management policy and strategy, and facilitated the development of the Digital Humanities community at TU Delft. Currently Wang works as the coordinator of the Data Stewardship at TU Delft and serves on the advisory board of the TU Delft OPEN Publishing. Her focus is on professionalising universities as data-driven institutions and performing good science. This includes the enabling of the organizational capability to embed data governance and management practices into operational workflows. Data stewardship acts as the bridge to facilitate the cultural change among researchers toward responsible and professional conduct of research under the ongoing Open Science and FAIR data movement. In addition, it also helps to shape the evolving academic environment by establishing the role of data stewards in the ‘third space’.