13 March 2006: CSEP's Codes of Ethics Online collection was mentioned in a Colorado Springs Gazette story about web sites that include information on business ethics.

6 March 2006: Forty colleges and universities from across the United States participated in the Twelfth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl that took place in Jacksonville Florida in conjunction with the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics annual meeting. The Ethics Bowl was started by Professor Robert Ladenson in 1997. Teams for the 2007 national competition will be selected through a series of regional competitions.

23 January 2006: CSEP Director Vivian Weil is invited to be on the Nanoethics Group Advisory Board, a network of notable experts who seek to study the social and ethical implications of nanotechnology.

Winter 2005-Spring 2006: CSEP begins building the NanoEthicsBank, an electronically accessible database containing codes, policies, reports, and scholarly work relating to ethics and nanotechnology. The NanoEthicsBank is part of the larger Harvard-based database NanoConnection to Society which, when completed, will be an important resource for researchers, scholars and the general public on current and potential effects of nanotechnology on society. The NanoConnection to Society database is part of the Nanotechnology in Society Project, funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Nanotechnology Initiative.

 

Past Events

Fall, 2004: CSEP announces the launch of a new portion of our web site dedicated to the examination of ethical issues in emerging technologies.We will firstly focus on ethics in biomedical engineering, specifically regarding the development of a neural visual prosthesis, and will also soon expand the section to examine issues in nanotechnology.

From 1997-2003, IIT hosted colleagues in institutions across the country, and even internationally, for the Ethics Across Curriculum summer workshops, which were generously funded by the National Science Foundation.

In 2001, CSEP's librarian, Elizabeth Quinlan, received a grant from the Chicago Library System to hold two workshops for the newly formed Chicago Area Solo Librarians (CASL) group. Please visit our site!

In June 1996, CSEP received a grant from National Science Foundation to put our collection of over 850 codes of ethics on the World-Wide Web. Please visit the Codes of Ethics Codes Online project.

The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl which is held every year to entertain and challenge students from IIT and other campuses.

 

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