ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Office of the Dean for Graduate Studies and Research received
a grant award from the National Science Foundation for the
project titled: Preparing Current and Future Researchers to
Understand Ethical Parameters of Research, from Inception to
Dissemination. NSF award amounts to $299,955
for a three year period.
The GOAL of this project is to strengthen
the environment
for Scientific Research Integrity at UPR, Río Piedras campus.
To achieve this goal, the project will provide an integrated learning environment that includes active
and participatory approaches in knowledge-centered, learner-centered,
community-centered, and assessment-centered settings,
with the intent
of immersing student and researchers in responsible conduct
of research (hereafter RCR) activities for three years, thus
raising the level of awareness of the dimensions of RCR and
preparing the way for on-going RCR education.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
- Provide training in RCR to graduate level UPR-RP College
of Natural and Social students, postdoctoral fellows, and
CNS and CSS graduate faculty hired in 2007 and the prior
five years.
- Improve the ethical reasoning of CNS and CSS graduate faculty
hired in 2007 and the prior five years, as well as that of
newly hired postdoctoral fellows and entering graduate students,
including their ability to analyze others’ moral arguments
and to build and assess their own moral arguments, including
delineation of points of conflict, precedents, rules, norms
and values, the interests of all stakeholders, consequences
of courses of action, and ethical responsibilities of key
players
- Improve CNS and CSS graduate faculty and students ability
to perform with integrity the multiple tasks required in
a research career and to develop skills that give rise to
RCR.
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