Schauer appointed director of Safra Foundation Center
Interim President Derek Bok announced today (April 5) that Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government, has been appointed director of the...
View ArticleKissel grant recipients to take on ethical issues
For the second year, Harvard College students have been awarded Lester Kissel grants in Practical Ethics to carry out summer projects on a range of ethical issues. The seven grant winners will conduct...
View ArticleAmartya Sen talks about the importance of ethics in academe
In 1976, in the education journal Change, President Derek Bok famously asked, “Can ethics be taught?” At the time, few universities and even fewer faculty specialized in ethics; philosophers rarely...
View ArticleEthics Center’s 2007-08 fellows, senior scholar
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics announced its Faculty Fellows in Ethics for 2007-08. Under the direction of Arthur Applbaum, professor of ethics and public policy, the fellows will...
View ArticlePair of music professors to collaborate on improvisation project
Headed by University of Guelph English professor Ajay Heble, the international “Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice” project recently secured a $2.5 million grant from the Social Sciences and...
View ArticleKennedy School launches Initiative on Religion with Luce Foundation grant
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has announced a new academic research program, the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs. The interdisciplinary initiative, based at the Kennedy...
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Safra Foundation seeks graduate fellowship applicants The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics is now accepting applications from graduate students for its 2008-09 fellowship in ethics....
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Upcoming roundtable to delve into queer theater “Legends in Queer Performance: Can Theater Change the World?” — a roundtable discussion featuring actor and playwright Peggy Shaw, director and...
View ArticleMahzarin Banaji looks at biology of bias
Mahzarin R. Banaji, a Harvard social psychologist, studies how people think, and how they think they relate to one another. She’s an expert in the little secrets we all have: those implicit attitudes —...
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Harvard Toastmasters chapter to welcome guest speaker The Crimson Toastmasters Club, a local chapter of Toastmasters International, the public speaking and leadership organization, will welcome T...
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Community Gifts kicks off season of giving November marks the beginning of the monthlong Community Gifts Through Harvard campaign — the University’s workplace charitable giving campaign. The goal for...
View ArticleMed students don’t study war, ethics
A new survey of U.S. medical students shows they receive little training about what they should or should not do in wartime, despite ethical questions over physician involvement in prisoner...
View ArticleLester Kissel Grants available to undergrads
Harvard College students are eligible to apply for a Lester Kissel Grant in Practical Ethics to support research and writing that makes contributions to the understanding of practical ethics. A number...
View ArticleEthicists, philosophers discuss selling of human organs
In nearly every country in the world, there is a shortage of kidneys for transplantation. In the United States, around 73,000 people are on waiting lists to receive a kidney. Yet 4,000 die every year...
View ArticleCan corporations police themselves effectively?
On the surface, one might argue, it looks like the business world is headed in a decidedly socially conscious direction. Coffee giant Starbucks supports fair prices for its coffee growers. Wal-Mart,...
View ArticleGenuine debate illuminates knotty ethical questions
Should students receive financial compensation for high test scores? Would a market for organ donation make saving lives more efficient? Should a nation be permitted to buy the right to pollute? These...
View ArticleSpeakers talk about the ‘renaissance’ taking place in Native nations
Three was the magic number when the founding fathers established the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the United States government. Today, for thousands of Americans rewriting their own...
View ArticleJordan appointed first Niebuhr Professor at HDS
Mark D. Jordan has been appointed the first Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. He will take up the new post in January 2009. Jordan has been Emory University’s...
View ArticleSafra Ethics Center welcomes fellows, senior scholars
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics welcomed its new fellows and senior scholars for the 2008-09 academic year. The faculty fellows were chosen from a pool of applicants from colleges,...
View ArticleScholars, officials welcomed as Mossavar-Rahmani Center fellows
A director of international banking for one of the top banks in Vietnam, a seasoned government relations executive, and the former deputy general counsel for National Grid are among the incoming...
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