C.K. Gunsalus

Dr. C.K. Gunsalus is the director of the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics (NCPRE), professor emerita of business, and research professor at the Coordinated Sciences Laboratory. NCPRE has been funded by National Science Foundation, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the Sloan Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She has been on the faculty of the colleges of Business, Law, and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and served as special counsel in the Office of University Counsel. She also served as associate provost at Illinois, and before that, associate vice chancellor for research. She was the inaugural research integrity officer at Illinois, as well as the inaugural conflicts of interest officer.

A licensed attorney, she served on the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee on Responsible Science that produced the consensus report, “Fostering Integrity in Research” (2017). She was a member of the United States Commission on Research Integrity and served for four years as chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. In 2004, she was elected a fellow of the AAAS in recognition of her “sustained contributions to the national debate over improving the practical handling of ethical, legal, professional and administrative issues as they affect scientific research.” She is the author of two books published by the Harvard Press, The Young Professional’s Survival Guide (2012) and The College Administrator’s Survival Guide (2006), as well as a range of publications on institutional and research integrity.