CONFERENCES: There will be a symposium entitled "Assessing Corporate Academic Ties in Biotechnology" at the meeting off the American Association for the Advancement of Science on February 15, 1987, in Chicago. Topics will include academic freedom, conflict of interest, and the changing role of the university. For further information, please write the symposium organizers, Vivian Weil and Paul DeForest, at the Center.

CRAWFORD LECTURES: To celebrate our tenth anniversary, the Crawford Foundation is sponsoring a series of three public lectures at the Center. The first speaker was Leon Lederman, the Director of Fermilab, whose title was: "Science: The Promise and the Threat." It took place on Thursday, November 20, 1986. Two lectures will take place on February 26, 1986. The first will be by Carl Cohen, of the Philosophy Department and Medical School of the University of Michigan, who will be speaking on "Doctors and Lawyers." William Thomas, an attorney and scientist with the American Bar Foundation, will present the second talk, with the title "Engineers, Scientists, and Lawyers." For more information, please contact this Center.

CENTER PUBLICATIONS: Our Module Series in Applied Ethics can now be ordered directly from us. Please address orders to: MODULES, c/o Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616. Titles currently available include:

Professional Responsibility for Harmful Actions, by Martin Curd and Larry May. $4.95.
The Moral Status of Loyalty, by Marcia Baron. $4.95.
A Critical Examination RiskBenefit Analysis in Decisions Concerning Public Safety and Health, Mark Sagoff. $4.95.
Technology Assessment: A Historical Approach, by Rondo Cameron and A.J. Millard. $4.95.
Whistleblowing: Ethical and Legal Issues in Expressing Dissent, by James C. Petersen and Dan Farrell. $4.95.
Conflicts of Interest in Engineering, by Paula Wells, Hardy Jones, and Michael Davis. $5.95.

NOTICE: Science, Technology, and Human Values will publish, in the January, 1987 issue, six papers emanating from the CSEP 1985 NSF-EVIST supported conference on Ethical Implications of Intellectual PropertyforScienceand Technology.

FELLOWSHIPS: The Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics at Dartmouth College invites applications for two Fellowsin Residence for 1987-1988. Applications must be received by January 15, 1987. For further information and application forms, please write: Dr. Charles M. Culver; The Ethics Institute; Dartmouth College; Hanover, NH 03755.

We Gratefully Acknowledge Support from the Following:

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Charles R. Feldstein & Co., Inc.
Ms. Marian Depres
Ms. Kay Field
Ms. Martha Friedberg
Mr. & Mrs.; Isak V. Gerson
Mrs. Natalie G. Heineman
Ethel V Horton
Mrs. Martyl Langsdorf
Mr. & Mrs. Robert McDougal, Jr.
Ms. Jean S. Meltzer
Mrs. Elizabeth Murray
Ms. Lucille Ollendorff
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Oostenbrug
Frances Perkins
Mr. Robert F. Picken
Mr. Richard Pollak
George H. Pollock, M.D.
Mr. Edwin Rothschild
Dr. Henry L. Ruehr
Mr. Sydney Stein, Jr.
Dr. A. T Straus
Ms. Eleanor Ransom Swift
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Wilkins
Ms. Margaret B. Wright

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology was established in 1976 For the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to ethical and policy issues of the professions.

EDITOR: Fay Sawyier
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Warren Schmaus
STAFF: Rebecca Newton
EDITORIAL BOARD: Thomas Calero, Mark Frankel, Martin Malin, Vivian Weil, Michael Davis.

Opinions expressed in Perspectives on the Professions are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions or the Illinois Institute of Technology: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. 60616.