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Participating Institutions and Senior Fellows

EAREE will be led by the Principle Investigator:

Chi Anyansi-Archibong, PhD, professor of management and LANGURE institutional leader at North Carolina A&T State University

Serving as Co-Principle Investigators will be:

	Ayanna Boyd-Williams, PhD, associate dean of the Graduate School at North Carolina A&T State University
	Christine Grant, PhD, professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University
	Gary Comstock, PhD, professor of Philosophy and director of the Research and Professional Ethics Program at North Carolina State University

Co-PI Ayanna Boyd-Williams, PhD is Associate Dean, Office of Graduate Studies, at North Carolina A&T State University. She specializes in professional development for graduate students, leading an orientation workshop each fall under the auspices of NC A&T's Academy of Teaching and Learning.

Co-PI Christine Grant, PhD professor of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University, is the recipient of the National Science Foundation''s 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Grant's research evaluates interfacial mechanisms that control absorption and desorption of thin films.

Co-PI Gary Comstock, PhD is professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University and ASC Fellow at the National Humanities Center, 2007-09. He is the PI for the LANGURE project and the Editor-in-Chief of the OpenSeminar in Research Ethics.

Senior Fellows


Candace Cummins Gauthier, PhD UNC-Wilmington	Janet Malek, PhD East Carolina University


Douglas MacLean, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	Terrance McConnell, PhD UNC-Greensboro


David Musick, PhD East Carolina University	Steven Rogelberg, PhD UNC-Charlotte

Candace Cummins Gauthier, PhD is a professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is the author of "Respect for Autonomy and Moral Responsibility: Meeting the Communitarian Challenge," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 10:4 (2000) 337-352; and "News Media Coverage of National Tragedies: Public Discourse as Public Grieving," International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 17:1 (20030 33-45. Dr. Gauthier has been teaching at UNCW since 1986, including courses in Ethics, Bioethics, Media Ethics, and Research Ethics. She has been a voting member of the New Hanover Regional Medical Center Institutional Review Board since 1990. She was also asked to convene a committee to develop policies, procedures, and forms for an Institutional Review Board at UNCW and has served as the IRB chair since its inception in 1990.

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Janet Malek PhD is a professor in the Department of Medical Humanities. At The Brody School of Medicine, Dr. Malek teaches in the M-1 and M-2 “Ethical and Social Issues in Medicine” courses and teaches “Research Ethics in the Biomedical Sciences” for doctoral students. She also teaches “Philosophy and Medicine” as an M-4 selective in the spring. Her dissertation, “The Decision to Conceive and the Concept of Harm,” explored the possibility that future children can be harmed by their parents’ conception decisions and the parental obligations that may be generated by that possibility of harm. Her primary research interests are in the ethical questions surrounding reproduction, the use of assisted reproductive technologies, and the use of genetic technologies. She is also working on several projects on the ethics of research with human subjects.

Douglas MacLean, PhD is a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on practical ethics and issues in moral and political theory that are particularly relevant to practical concerns. Most of his recent writings examine how values do and ought to influence decisions both personal decisions and government policies. His publications on these topics include: "Comparing Values in Environmental Policies: Moral Issues and Moral Arguments;" "Cost Benefit Analysis and Procedural Values;" and "The Ethics of Cost-Benefit Analysis: Incommensurable, Incompatible, and Incomparable Values." Dr. MacLean collaborates with Comstock on the Advanced Life Science Ethics Institute funded by NSF initiative, Ethics and Values Studies Program.

Terrance McConnell, PhD is professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He is the author of articles on whistleblowing, informed consent, and moral dilemmas and of three books: Inalienable Rights: The Limits of Consent in Medicine and the Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000); Gratitude (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993); and Moral Issues in Health Care. Dr. McConnell has taught many classes in applied ethics and ethical theory, including courses on medical ethics, ethics and genetics, cultural diversity, and ethical issues in biotechnology.

David Musick, PhD is associate dean, and medical education and clinical associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at East Carolina University. His areas of research interest include medical ethics, testing, and evaluation issues in education; biomedical ethics; and spirituality in medicine. Dr. Musick, a skilled evaluator of ethics education programs, will assess all EAREE activities. He will conduct IRB approved, impartial, blind surveys with all enrolled students before and after they take OpenSeminar. Dr. Musick will also conduct surveys with a strategically valid control group of students not enrolled in OpenSeminar. His findings will be submitted to a leading journal, such as Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics.

Steven Rogelberg, PhD is a professor of organizational science as well as psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he serves as director of organization science, director of industrial and organizational psychology, and is the founder/director of the Organizational Science Consulting and Research Unit. Dr. Rogelberg has over $300,000 of external grant funding and 50 publications focusing on interventions to facilitate team effectiveness, employee health and well-being, and conventional and internet-based research methods. he served as editor-in-chief of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organization Psychology (2006) and the Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2002, 2004). Dr. Rogelberg teaches research ethics and methods and has been honored for his teaching and mentoring.