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Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and PolicyThe Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy's Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy is one of five research centers comprising Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. The Center is a university-wide, cross-disciplinary initiative dedicated to promoting socially beneficial and ethically responsible uses of genome science through research, teaching, and public discussion.
The Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy's Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy builds in part on an initiative organized by the Kenan Institute for Ethics in 1998-1999 that focused on Ethics and Genetic Technologies and brought together researchers from across Duke and the Triangle. Kenan Institute Director Elizabeth Kiss served as Interim Director of the Center in 2000-2001 and continues to serve as a member of its Steering Committee.
Center activities include support for scholarly research and teaching, collaborations with other centers within the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, and outreach efforts that bring together researchers, clinicians, scholars, policymakers, business people, educators, and the general public.
Involved in Center activities have been Duke faculty from over 20 departments or schools--from Art History, Botany, Business and Engineering to Medicine, Public Policy, and Religion--faculty from area universities and the North Carolina School of Science and Math, and representatives of companies and organizations in Research Triangle Park. Highlights include a May 2000 public symposium on Does Genomics Pose New Ethical Questions?; a monthly faculty colloquium series; a one-day seminar in June 2001 for biotechnology executives; and summer institute in 2001 and 2002 for practitioners, including lawyers, judges, policymakers, and teachers.
The Center's Director is Robert M. Cook-Deegan.
For further information see the Center's website www.genome.duke.edu/centers/gelp/
CinethicsIn November 2000, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Kenan Institute for the Arts, and the School of Filmmaking at the North Carolina School of the Arts hosted Cinethics, a national conference on ethics in filmmaking. The focus of the conference was threefold: to raise the consciousness of film students, to assess the current state of ethical decision-making in the film industry, and to determine how ethical considerations can be integrated into a film school or program curriculum.
Deans, faculty and students from eighteen of the top film schools in the country participated in this conference, along with Hollywood producers, directors, and film critics. For more information on the panelists and sessions, please visit the Cinethics website.
Generational Ethics ConferenceNational Conference
In June 2002, the Content of Our Character Project hosted a national conference, entitled The Content of America's Character: A Conversation on Generational Ethics, at Duke. The conference featured notable participants and conceived as a series of three town meetings led by different generational groups, the conference was the culminating event for the Content of Our Character Project.
Moral Education in a Diverse Society Conference This biennial conference brings together educators from across the country to discuss the means and ends of moral education from middle school through college/university.
2003 Conference Poster
2003 Conference Report
2003 Program PDF or Word
The Fourth National Conference on Moral Education in a Diverse Society was held September 19-21, 2003 at the Durham Marriott at the Civic Center in Durham, NC. Educators, ethics scholars, students, and administrators who were interested in civic and character education explored current challenges and opportunities for integrating the conference theme, Moral Courage and Civic Responsibility, into the curricula of colleges, universities, and middle and high schools. Dr. Claire Gaudiani (past president of Connecticut College and author of The Greater Good) delivered the keynote address. The conference included over 25 panels and interactive workshops, including panelist Ambassador James Joseph (Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa).
The conference was sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, Cumberland County Schools, Museum of Life and Science, North Carolina Center for Character Education, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, Shaw University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Past Conference Programs: 1998 (pdf) | 1999 (pdf) | 2001 (pdf)
Murphy Ethics and Public Leadership SeminarThe Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Sanford Institute of Public Policy were co-organizers of the inaugural Charles S. Murphy Ethics and Public Service Leadership Seminar held January 12-14, 2002. The seminar is expected to continue in future years with other partners.
For 2001 schedule of events, see Seminar Schedule.
Research Ethics Training for Graduate StudentsThe Kenan Institute for Ethics collaborates with the Graduate School, the Program in Science, Technology, and Human Values, and faculty and graduate students in ten Duke departments to provide training in the Responsible Conduct of Research to graduate students in all non-medical fields that receive NIH funding. This training involves students from Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, all four Engineering departments, the School of the Environment, Psychology and Sociology. The training consists of two components:
- A one-day workshop for incoming students held before the first day of classes each August. Workshop outline and faculty involved: Responsible Conduct of Research
- A four-hour (minimum) workshop of more specialized, discipline-specific training in research ethics for second and third-year students developed and run by individual doctoral programs.
Resources on Research Ethics
Duke Web Resources
Office of Research Support website on Human Subjects Research
http://www.ors.duke.edu/irb/index.html
The ORS Manual for Investigators doing Research with Human Subjects (includes Belmont Report, section on student research etc.) http://www.ors.duke.edu/irb/irbmanual.htm
Helpful comprehensive website on ethics in chemistry, with many useful links http://www.lib.duke.edu/chem/ethics/index.html.
Among the links, http://pages.towson.edu/ladon/ethics/ethicsyl.htm provides a useful syllabus and bibliography.
Duke University Medical Center Institutional Review Board website (includes Human Subjects research policies and several landmark research ethics reports, including the Belmont Report, the Declaration of Helsinki, and the Nuremberg Code) http://irb.mc.duke.edu
Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) Research Ethics and Resources http://researchethics.mc.duke.edu/
Duke People
Graduate School: Associate Dean Leigh Deneef, 681-1559, leigh.deneef@duke.edu
Graduate Student Coordinator of Research Ethics Training: Lynn Hempel, lhemp@soc.duke.edu
Kenan Institute for Ethics: Elizabeth Kiss, Director, 660-3033, ekiss@duke.edu, http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu
Office of Research Support: Lorna Hicks, 681-8773, lorna.hicks@duke.edu
Holly Williams-Stafford, 681-8686, holly.williams.stafford@duke.edu
Program in Science, Technology, and Human Values: Dan Vallero, Director, dav1@duke.edu
Center for the Study of Medical Ethics & Humanities: Jeremy Sugarman, Director, 668-9000, http://csmeh.mc.duke.edu
Books
Robin Levin Penslar, ed., Research Ethics: Cases & Materials (Indiana University Press, 1995). Deni Elliott and Judy E. Stern, eds., Research Ethics: A Reader (University Press of New England, 1997).
On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1995).
The Responsible Researcher: Paths and Pitfalls (Research Triangle Park,
N. C.: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 1999).
Other Websites
Responsible Conduct in Research website of the National Academy of Sciences
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/4917.html#toc
Ethics Center for Engineering and Science (an excellent, comprehensive website with many research ethics case studies, codes of ethics, policies, etc.)http://onlineethics.org
SUNY Stony Brook research compliance website, another very comprehensive website
http://www.research.sunysb.edu/research/policies/complnce.html
NIH Ethics Program website http://ethics.od.nih.gov/
The Sigma Xi International Honor Society of Engineering & Scientific Research, publishers of Honor in Science and other resources on scientific ethics http://www.sigmaxi.org
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