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- Salary Offsets
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Authors: Schrag, Brian ; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case discusses issues surrounding the misuse of grant funds by academic institutions....
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/salaryoffset.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-10-21 14:25
- An Aborted Ph.D. Program
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An scenario designed to stimulate discussion about the ethical issues that arise in advisor-adevisee relationship; a student and advisor disagree about whether work completed for a Ph.D. should count towards an MA....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/2963/modindex/resethpages/aborted.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-13 09:21
- Organic Reactions
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Authors: University of Delaware, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Undergraduate Science Education Program ; White, Harold B.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Madge discovers that the project she has been working on is being published without her name because her research supervisor thinks her contributions do not merit coauthorship....
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.udel.edu/chem/white/HHMI3/OrganicRxn.docBiblio - KBL781 - 2012-08-28 10:33
- Helping Hands
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Authors: University of Delaware, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Undergraduate Science Education Program ; White, Harold B.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Jill, pressed for time to write a proposal for summer research funding, is advised by a graduate student to transcribe parts of her research supervisor's recent grant proposal. The review committee deliberates on whether to fund her...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.udel.edu/chem/white/HHMI3/HelpingHand.docBiblio - KBL781 - 2012-08-28 10:30
- When Drug Sales and Science Collide
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Authors: Trussell, Cindy ; McCain, Elizabeth ; Grimnes, Karin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When "Jeff," a fictionalized drug representative, is placed on the Vioxx® account in 2001, he finds himself pulled between sales and science as he struggles to reconcile three original documents: a Merck marketing pamphlet, a graph ...
Year: 2007
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=207&id=207Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-15 11:52
- Cooling Off a Warming Planet
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Authors: Suter, Jordan F. ; National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, University at Buffalo ; Shammin, Md Rumi ; Petersen, John
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This role-playing case on climate change policy is designed to engage student groups in parallel discussions on policy instruments and packages for controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, student groups discuss cap-and-t...
Year: 2011
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=582&id=582Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-06-20 14:20
- Cancer Cure or Conservation
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Authors: Lizotte, Pauline A. ; Manchester Community College, Mathematics, Science and Health Careers ; Knapp, Gretchen E. ; Illinois State University, Biology Department
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case is based on the controversy that surrounded harvesting of the Pacific yew from 1989 to 1997 to develop paclitaxel (Taxol), a revolutionary anti-cancer drug. The case was designed to expose students to basic conservation bi...
Year: 2003
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=198&id=198Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-15 11:46
- To Spray or Not to Spray : A Debate Over Malaria and DDT
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In this case study, students grapple with the complex issues surrounding the use of DDT to control malaria in the developing world. In their examination of the issue, students consider risk/benefit analysis and the precautionary pri...
Year: 2001
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=406&id=406Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-15 11:51
- Certified Cultured Beef
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Authors: University of Kentucky, Department of Community and Leadership Development ; Balschweid, Mark ; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication ; Hains, Bryan ; Hains, Dawn
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In this case study, students are introduced to concepts and techniques in modern biotechnology, as well as the possible implications of this emerging science, by considering the possibility of in vitro cultured meat. Intended for us...
Year: 2006
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=264&id=264Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-15 11:46
- Scenario Five-Sample Scenarios from the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
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Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A student uses the library's electric database and journals without paying for services. The library has liability or obligation to enforce policy....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/computers/compcases/netprivacy/scene5.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-27 14:30
- Do the Ends Justify the Means? The Ethics of Deception in Social Science Research
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Three short cases explore deception of subjects in social science research. In each case the principle investigator is a social psychologist....
Year: 1997
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/justify.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-08 09:36
- The Federal Scientist - Multiple Roles and Moral Issues
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This scenario highlights potential dilemmas encountered by postdoctoral fellows in a research setting. This scenario looks at the multiple roles a scientist must play and how it can affect decision making....
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/fed.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-10-21 16:41
- Sample Scenarios from the CSTB - A network operator sells personal information
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: One of 6 scenarios that discuss computers and Internet privacy, sampled from publications of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). A commercial network operator c...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/scene2.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-10-20 09:43
- Sample Scenarios from the CSTB - Encryption Issues
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: One of 6 scenarios that discuss computers and Internet privacy, sampled from publications of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). A university library and a busi...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/scene4.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-10-20 10:54
- Sample Scenarios from the CSTB - Library Databases
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: One of 6 scenarios that discuss computers and Internet privacy, sampled from publications of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). A student usues the library's e...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/scene5.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-10-20 10:54
- Pinocchio's Nose
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Authors: Northeastern University, WebGURU
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Tom, a pre-med student, is working two part-time jobs and is falling behind in his coursework. Tom goes to his anthropology teacher with a story about how he and his brother were in a fictional car crash, and how he has been sitting...
Year: 2012
URL: http://www.webguru.neu.edu/professionalism/case-studies/pinocchios-noseBiblio - KBL781 - 2012-10-17 16:11
- Tripped Up
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Authors: University of Delaware, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Undergraduate Science Education Program ; White, Harold B.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Undergraduate Ernest Lee discovers that his results are too hot for public consumption and is told by his superisor, Dr. Greene, that he cannot present his research at a national meeting because they aren't ready to publish yet. (Sc...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.udel.edu/chem/white/HHMI3/TrippedUp.docBiblio - KBL781 - 2012-08-28 10:27
- Software Protection & Intellectual Property - Role Play Material from MIT's EECS Department
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Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Publication Type: Case Study
Secondary Title: Cases and Scenarios
Abstract: Original Role Play on Intellectual Property involving RSA Encryption. This role play was used in MIT's introductory computer science subject, the Structure and Integration of Computer Programs...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/mitroleplay.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-05-19 09:55
- Scenario Two-Sample Scenarios from the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
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Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A commercial network operator collects personal information and sells it to companies for telemarketers without informed consent....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/computers/compcases/netprivacy/scene2.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-27 14:28
- Data from a Graduate Course --Social Science
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario that covers ethical issues that arise when a student wants to use a professors data in a manuscript....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/profdata.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-13 09:37
- Research Safety in Laboratories
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A student's project about research safety in laboratories prompted by her job as a new researcher in the laboratory where safety precautions were ignored....
Year: 1995
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/labtox.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-10-20 10:54
- When in Rome- Conventions in Assignment of Authorship
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/4815.aspx...
Year: 1998
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/4815.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-10-22 14:15
- Animals in Research II
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Authors: Korenman, Stanley G. ; Shipp, Allan C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A graduate student must decide whether to use cats or rhesus monkeys for his thesis research....
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/AnimalsResearch11.htmBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-07 13:56
- Conflicting Obligations
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Authors: Kodish, Eric
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario that covers ethical issues that arise when children dissent to continuing with the next phase of research while their parents assent to the research....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/conobl.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-13 15:09
- Credit in a Grant Proposal
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Authors: Whitbeck, Caroline ; Anila Jahangiri
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario that covers ethical issues that arise a professor incorporates the tables and figures of a student in a grant proposal....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/grant.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-13 09:36

