Updated April 2010
RCREC_News
Letter to NSF
Responsible Conduct of Research Educational Committee (RCREC)
The Responsible Conduct of Research Education Committee is a subcommittee of the Executive Board of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. The committee is composed of members of the Association. It has as its mission to promote high quality teaching and scholarship in research ethics and research ethics education. One of its functions is to organize a seminar on research ethics or research ethics education to be held in conjunction with the Association’s Annual Meeting.
New members appointed to the RCREC
New members appointed to the RCREC (Spring 2009) Vivian Weil, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Association for Practical and Professional ethics has appointed the following persons to the Association’s Responsible Conduct of Science Educational Committee; James Dubois, Chair.
The members include: Lida Anestidou, Program Officer, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, The National Academies; Stephanie J. Bird, Consultant; Editor, Science and Engineering Ethics; Mary Brydon-Miller, Action Research Center, University of Cincinnati; James Dubois, Department of Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University; Julia Frugoli, Biology, Clemson University; Elizabeth Heitman, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University; Michael Kalichman, Research Ethics Program, University of California, San Diego; Ken Pimple, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics, Indiana University; Julie Pedroni, Philosophy, Williams College; Dena Plemmons, Research Ethics, University of California, San Diego; Sara Wilson, Biomedical Engineering, University of Kansas
Contact information for James DuBois, Chair of the RCREC:
Dr. James DuBois
Hubert Mader Endowed Professor, Dept. Chair
Saint Louis University
221 N. Grand Blvd.
Health Care Ethics, O'Brien Hall
St Louis MO 63103-2006
Phone 314-977-6663
FAX 314-977-5150
Email duboisjm@slu.edu
www.chce.slu.edu
RCREC Membership
RCREC Membership Category
There is a special category of membership in the Association devoted to the responsible conduct of research and represented by a subcommittee of the Association, the Responsible Conduct of Research Educational Committee (RCREC). The RCREC subcommittee sponsors workshops on research ethics education at the Association’s Annual Meeting as well as selected locations around the United States.
RCREC Individual Membership
Any individual member of the Association can choose to be identified as part of the RCREC Special Interest Group by checking the special interest group on the membership form and will receive any information on RCREC activities on the RCREC e-mail news.
RCREC Organizational Membership
Organizations may become RCREC Organizational members at the $500 membership level. That membership will include an institutional membership in the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and will allow access to the RCREC Internet-based Course in research ethics at no additional cost as well as discounts for attendance at RCREC workshops. Organizational members will also be listed in Profiles, the Association's membership list of institutional members.
RCREC Sponsor Membership
Organizations may become sponsors at the level of $2000 or more. This level of membership includes all the benefits of RCREC Organizational Membership, but Sponsors will also be identified in RCREC publicity as having a national leadership role in promoting RCR education.
Applying for Membership
If you are not currently a member of the Association and would like to join, please fill out the membership application form (available here in PDF format, which requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader) and return it with a check for annual dues. The information you provide will be used in planning Association activities. Address information and description will be included in the Member Directory.
We will also be happy to send the form at your request via the U.S. postal service or e-mail; our contact information is below.
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Research Ethics Workshops and Seminars
Workshop on Research Ethics Instruction at Annual Meeting
Responsible Conduct of Research Education Committee (RCREC) presents “RCR Instruction Face-to-Face: A Workshop”
What innovative or effective methods for face-to-face RCR teaching have you used successfully at your institution, such as case study analysis, film or book discussions, role plays, action research projects involving art, or journal clubbing?We are currently soliciting proposals for 75-minute workshop sessions. Each session will include a brief plenary presentation on how to use the training method followed by small group work using the method. Proposals should describe the method that will be presented, the presenters and their credentials and experience using the method, and any handouts or aids that will be distributed to assist small groups in using the method. Proposals should be approximately 500 words. Please send proposals to Holly Bante at banteha@slu.edu, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. You must register to attend.
Cost to participants:
$50 for Members
$100 for Nonmembers
Free for RCREC Institutional Members
APPE_News for RCREC Interest Group Members
The RCREC subcommittee of the Association has drafted a letter in response to a call for public comment on requirements for students and postdoctoral researchers involved in NSF proposals to be educated in the responsible and ethical conduct of Research. (March 2009). You can see a copy of the response by clicking the following link: RCREC's response to the NSF call for public comment.
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RCREC Interest Group Members
RCREC Organizations
American Psychological Association http://www.apa.org/science
Chosun University http://www.cgrp.or.kr
Clemson University http:www.clemson.edu
Georgetown University http://www9.georgetown.edu
Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. http://www.hccs.com
Indiana University of Pennsylvania http://www.iup.edu/research/default.aspx
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center http://www.mskcc.org
Michigan State University http://grad.msu.edu/all/respconduct.htm
Michigan Technological University http://www.mtu.edu
Purdue University
San Diego State University http://gra-sdsu.edu/research.php
San Francisco State University http://www.sfsu.edu/~orspwww/
State University of New York at Stony Brook http://www.stonybrook.edu
Temple University http://www.temple.edu
University of Alaska, Fairbanks http://www.uaf.edu
University of California, Davis http://research.ucdavis.edu
University of California, Irvine http://www.research.uci.edu
University of California, San Diego http://www.ucsd.edu/
University of Connecticut
University of Georgia http://www.uga.edu
University of Kansas http://www.research.ku.edu
University of Kansas Medical Center http://www.kumc.edu/historyofmed/
University of Louisville http://www.ori.louisville.edu
University of Minnesota http://www.research.umn.edu/first/
University of Missouri-Columbia http://missouri.edu
University of Missouri-Kansas City http://www.umkc.edu/research/
University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://www.unl.edu/research/Recomp1/compliance.shtm
University of Nebraska Medical Center http://www.unmc.edu
University of Western Ontario
Utah State University http://www.usu.edu
Virginia Commonwealth University http://www.vcu.edu
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Indiana University
618 East Third Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-3602
Telephone (812) 855-6450; FAX (812) 856-4969
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