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Kenneth Pimple, Ph.D.

Kenneth D. Pimple, Ph.D., is Director of Teaching Research Ethics Programs at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, an endowed center at Indiana University-Bloomington and on the Affiliate Faculty of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics. He has over ten years of experience in organizing faculty workshops on ethics and research ethics. Since 1993 he has directed the Teaching Research Ethics project (TRE), which offers an annual workshop for researchers from the sciences and other fields. In its nine years, the workshop has attracted 346 participants from 38 states and 9 foreign countries (Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Kuwait, Mexico, Norway, and the United Kingdom), representing 105 universities and other institutions. Since 1999 he has directed Scientists and Subjects: An Online Seminar on the Ethics of Research with Human Subjects, an annual seminar funded by the National Institutes of Health. In 2001 he was commissioned by the Institute of Medicine Committee on Assessing Integrity in Research Environments to write three background papers for its major publication, Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment that Promotes Responsible Conduct (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2002).

His publications in the field of research ethics include

  • "General Issues in Teaching Research Ethics," in Research Ethics: Cases and Materials, ed. Robin Levin Penslar (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995);
  • "The Ethics of Human Cloning and the Fate of Science in a Democratic Society," Valpairaso University Law Review 32(2):727-737 (1998); and
  • "Six Domains of Research Ethics: A Heuristic Framework for the Responsible Conduct of Research," Science and Engineering Ethics 8(2):191-205 (2002).

He has been invited to make presentations on the responsible conduct of research and on teaching research ethics in a wide variety of venues, including the national meetings of

  • Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R);
  • the Whitaker Foundation; and
  • the Association for Moral Education;

and at special workshops or seminars at

  • Duke University;
  • Indiana University-Bloomington;
  • North Carolina State University;
  • Michigan State University;
  • the University of Illinois-Chicago;
  • the University of Minnesota;
  • the Wadsworth Center (New York State Department of Health);
  • the (Norwegian) National Committee for Research Ethics in the
  • Social Sciences and the Humanities; and
  • the Slovak Republic's Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine.

He has authored or co-authored successful grant proposals totaling more than $1.25 million. Funders have included

  • the National Institutes of Health;
  • the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE);
  • the Open Society Institute; and
  • the Lilly Endowment.

His service activities have included membership on

  • advisory boards for two projects funded by the National Science Foundation and one funded by the National Institutes of Health;
  • Bloomington Hospital's Institutional Review Board (IRB);

and a number of committees at Indiana University, including

  • Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC);
  • the Committee on Research Fraud and Misconduct;
  • the Human Subjects Protection Education Committee; and
  • the Human Subjects Committee (IRB).

Contact info:
Kenneth D. Pimple, Ph.D.
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
618 E Third St
Bloomington, IN 47405-3602
812-855-0261
pimple@indiana.edu

Kenneth D. Pimple, Ph.D.
812-855-0261
pimple@indiana.edu