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Graduate Instructorship Award applications accepted until 2/17

The Kenan Institute for Ethics invites advanced graduate or professional school students to apply to design and teach an ethics seminar in their areas of expertise. One graduate instructorship (which includes a $20,000+ stipend) will be awarded, and the recipient will teach his or her course during the Spring 2013 semester. For more information, click here.

KIE Advisory Board member Jimmy Soni (T’07) named managing editor of Huffington Post

Congratulations to KIE Advisory Board member and Duke alum Jimmy Soni on being named managing editor of the Huffington Post. Forbes and the Atlantic Wire have more information on his appointment.

Barak Richman comments on Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC decision

KIE Senior Fellow and Duke Professor of Law Barak D. Richman, who submitted a “friend of the court” brief urging the Supreme Court to take a narrow view of the ministerial exception in employment discrimination cases, commented on it in this Chronicle of Higher Education article.

FT columnist reviews Ruth Grant’s latest book

Financial Times columnist Christopher Cardwell reviews senior fellow Ruth Grant’s Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives, her latest book from Princeton University Press. Read the full review (free subscription required) here.

Advisory Board member William Galston featured on NPR’s Morning Edition

Kenan Ethics Advisory Board member William Galston, Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program and former aide to the Clinton White House, offered advice to President Obama on channeling the populist energy of the Occupy movement on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Pickus on Homeland Security

KIE Director Noah Pickus, Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security Director David Schanzer, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano discussed how to prevent terrorism while protecting Americans’ privacy and civil rights. The discussion, part of the Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture series (full details here), was streamed live on Duke’s Ustream channel on October 20, 2011, and archived on Duke on Demand. Pickus and Schanzer also appeared live on the Office of News and Communication’s Office Hours series. An archived version of their discussion is available here.

Healy featured on National Review, Dow Jones websites

Kieran Healy has developed a broad audience for his recent writings. The National Review picked up his Good Question piece on whether there should be a market for human organs. And in a post on his own blog that was picked up by the Dow Jones website AllThingsD, Healy brings in Weber to analyze Steve Jobs’s cultural resonance. Read the full post here.

Need Funding? Apply for a KIE Campus Grant by November 1.

Need funding for your class, organization, conference, speaker, program, publication, or workshop? We provide up to $500 per grantee to support initiatives that promote ethical reflection, deliberation, and dialogue. Duke students, staff, and faculty are eligible to apply. More information is available here.

Law, KIE announce search for joint faculty hire

Duke University Law School and the Kenan Institute for Ethics have opened a search for a joint faculty hire in the field of international human rights law, policy, and institutions. More information is available in this PDF.

Bader Blogs about Google’s Motorola Deal on CSR Wire

Nonresident Senior Fellow and Kenan Advisory Board member Christine Bader sees Google’s deal to buy cellphone manufacturer Motorola as its biggest opportunity in corporate social responsibility to date—if Google commits to developing a smartphone free of conflict minerals. Read the full post here.