C.K. Gunsalus
Director, National Center for Professional and Research Ethics (NCPRE)
C. K. Gunsalus is a nationally recognized expert, speaker, author and workshop presenter on matters of research integrity, ethics and professionalism in academia. She 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. Gunsalus was the PI for the centerpiece project of NCPRE, Ethics CORE, a national online ethics resource center initiated with $1.5M from the National Science Foundation.
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 started her career at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, which developed the PLATO project. Gunsalus graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Illinois College of Law and has an AB with Distinction in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois.