Associate vice chancellor of research and director of the Office of Research Integrity announced
July 5, 2011
UAF Vice Chancellor for Research Mark Myers announced that Alaska Satellite Facility
Director Nettie La Belle-Hamer has accepted the position of associate vice chancellor
of research and director of the Office of Research Integrity. As of July 1, La Belle-Hamer
will hold 50 percent appointment in both directorship positions.The Office of Research Integrity is responsible for the oversight of the university’s research involving human and animal subjects. Committees within ORI evaluate procedures of experiments to ensure that UAF research is carried out in a responsible and ethical manner. Though the ORI director’s input is not required of every committee review, it is required of complex cases and disputes.
“I’ll be doing something that spans across boundaries and borders,” says La Belle-Hamer. “The bigger picture is exciting.” For La Belle-Hamer, who has been immersed in the work of the Geophysical Institute as student then senior staff member for more than 20 years, the idea of overseeing research focused on animals and humans is both invigorating and challenging.
La Belle-Hamer’s first major project in the position will be the Arctic Oil Spill Project. Current ORI Director John Blake is leaving the post to head up a new veterinary program at UAF. Blake will remain as one of three associate vice chancellors of research alongside La Belle-Hamer and Dan White.