Penn State's Rock Ethics Institute has named the 2012 Stand Up Awardees: Joshua Brady Branch, Barbara Donnini, Julian Haas and Staci Neal. The students were honored at a recent ceremony and reception with each receiving a $1,000 award. The Stand Up Award honors Penn State undergraduate students who have the courage and fortitude to take an ethical stand for a person, cause or belief, and thereby demonstrate ethical leadership concerning their chosen issue. This award, through the individuals and stories it honors, is designed to remind the entire Penn State community of how often the extraordinary act is possible in ordinary circumstances. (more)
A Penn State DuBois student has been recognized for taking a stand. Staci Neal has received the Stand Up Award from the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State. (more)
Jonathan H. Marks, associate professor of bioethics, humanities and law; associate director of the Rock Ethics Institute; and director of the bioethics program at Penn State; will present "The Future of Food Ethics" at 3 p.m. on Monday, April 23, in the Foster Auditorium at Paterno Library on the University Park campus. The event is free and open to the public. (more)
Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, will present a talk titled "Institutional Corruption" at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, in the auditorium at the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus. This lecture, The Richard B. Lippin Lectureship in Ethics, is free and open to the public. (more)
Bryan L. McDonald, assistant professor of science, technology and society at Penn State, will present "The Ethics of Food Security" at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in the Foster Auditorium at Paterno Library on the University Park campus. This lecture is free and open to the public. (more)
The Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State is developing a set of resources to help faculty, students, staff, administrators, and other members of our community to sort through the complex ethical issues they face. The first of these, "Resources for Ethical Deliberation," is now available at http://rockethics.psu.edu for public use. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members may find it useful to have a guide to aid them in making these difficult discussions as productive as possible. (more)
Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send more autonomous probes into outer space, but why have we never found evidence of other civilizations doing the same? A pair of postdoctoral researchers at Penn State, approaching the problem mathematically, shows that we have not looked in enough places to ensure that no extraterrestrial artifacts exist in our solar system. (more)
David Castle, chair of innovation in the life sciences at the ESRC Innogen Centre at University of Edinburgh, UK, will present "Personalized Nutrition: Ethical and Regulatory Aspects" at 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24, in the Greg Sutliff Auditorium of the Lewis Katz Building. This lecture is free and open to the public. (more)
Saul Dubow, professor of history at the University of Sussex, U.K., will present "The Rise, Retreat and Revival of Human Rights in South Africa" at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 23, in the Memorial Lounge of the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on Penn State's University Park campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. (more)
Penn State is now offering a unique dual-title doctoral program that allows students to combine the study of bioethics with another academic discipline. Graduate students in a variety of fields across the University can study the increasingly complex ethical issues presented by the practice of medicine, public health crises, access to health care, the latest developments in the biosciences, and the ways that biomedical research is funded and conducted. (more)
