RCR Officer / RECR Program Director

William L. Gannon, PhD
Office of the Vice President for Research
Scholes Hall, Suite 327E
MSC05 3480
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

phone: 505/277-3488 or 505/277-6128
email: wgannon@unm.edu

Operating under the auspices of the Vice President for Research and appointed as Special Assistant by President Schmidly, Bill was tasked with creation and operation of a University RCR Program based on the principles of the responsible conduct of research serving researchers, post-docs, graduate students, and others conducting research at UNM.

Experience in Research Compliance
Hired in 1986 in the Biology Department, Bill has served as Director of Research Compliance Services, Director of the Office of Animal Care and Compliance, chaired both institutional animal care and use committees (IACUC), and chaired the main campus IRB committee for human subjects research protections. He is a liaison between the VPR and Conflicts of Interest committee, member of the Export Control committee.

Research Ethics Training, Professional Training, and Current Research Interests
He received training in BioEthics from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and is currently enrolled in the Master’s program in Philosophy at UNM in ethics. His research and teaching also focus on issues of scientific integrity and the responsible conduct of research. Dr. Gannon has coauthored 50+ journal articles or book chapters and 19 funded research grants (3 related to professional training in ethics). He is a Biologist with expertise in mammalian behavioral ecology and conservation and his current research interests include bat acoustics, small-mammal ecology (squirrels). Currently he focuses on ethics with his teaching, writing, and training on the responsible conduct of research. He teaches courses on research ethics – one to undergraduate students and one to professional track federally funded graduate students. He also participates in numerous seminars, workshops and guest lectures throughout the year. This includes training and mentoring undergraduates and graduate students that are from groups historically underrepresented as graduate students to become scientists through field and laboratory studies. A recent publication of his, Guidelines for the Use of Wild Mammals in Research has revised and set standards by which animals are used in field research. He works in fostering integrity in research by providing campus-wide referral to investigators or instructors that seek assistance in providing ethics training for service-oriented federal research grants.