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Center For Neuroengineering Hosts Seminar on Ethics Integration in Neuroscience Research

Center For Neuroengineering Hosts Seminar on Ethics Integration in Neuroscience Research

By Henry Ren February 29, 2024

A philosophy professor from the University of Washington (UW) discussed her efforts to integrate ethics into neurotechnology research. The Feb. 21 seminar in Riggs Library, presented by Georgetown University...

New Tech Ethics Undergraduate Programs Launching in Fall 2022

New Tech Ethics Undergraduate Programs Launching in Fall 2022

By Laetitia Haddad March 3, 2022

Georgetown University undergraduate students in Georgetown College can study the intersection of technology and ethics in society through new major, minor and concentration programs launching this fall. Beginning...

COMMUNITY CORNER: Georgetown Ethicists Navigate Vaccine Mandates

COMMUNITY CORNER: Georgetown Ethicists Navigate Vaccine Mandates

By Briana Sparacino October 15, 2021

https://soundcloud.com/multimedia-editor/community-corner-georgetown-ethicists-navigate-vaccine-mandates/s-u2F75k0p9Bj?si=b1dbaea6b973442799134147ed695e7c This week on The Community Corner, multimedia...

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GU Graduate Launches Podcast About Ethics in Capitalism

By Ella Kohler October 23, 2020

As she entered the 25th year of her investment banking career, Dawn Carpenter (GRD ’20) stopped to ask herself, “What am I doing with my life?”  DAWNCARPENTER | Dawn Carpenter (GRD ’20)...

FILE PHOTO: SUBUL MALIK/THE HOYA | The new ethics and oversight committee will be made up of 5 senators, 2 executive liaisons, and 3 executive liaisons, with the chair of the committee voting to break any ties.

GUSA Reforms Ethics Committee To Include Non-Voting Students

By Harrison McBride November 1, 2019

The Georgetown University Student Association senate voted in favor of an amended bill that would include student body members on the GUSA ethics and oversight committee, which aims to improve the internal...

JACK EVANS WARD 2 Council Member Evans has been stripped of certain responsibilities, but remains on the council. Many have called for his resignation.

DC Council Reprimands Jack Evans over Code of Conduct Violation

By Yolanda Spura March 20, 2019

Washington, D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) was reprimanded by a council vote after using his government email to solicit corporate deals March 19. Beyond the reprimand, D.C. Council Chair...

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GUSA to Increase Student Health and Misconduct Trainings

By Myroslav November 9, 2018

The Georgetown University Student Association senate amended the bylaws for the Ethics and Oversight Committee, which launched last month, to require more training in student health and misconduct...

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Commissioners for the Student Activities Commission have expressed confusion over ambiguity and lax enforcement of bylaws relating to conflicts of interest — especially as they pertain to the International Relations Club.

Conflicts of Interest Spotlight Ambiguity in SAC Bylaws

By Christian Paz April 27, 2018

When representatives from the International Relations Club faced the Student Activities Commission on Monday, March 19, to explain why IRC members had travelled to Panama City earlier that month without...

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Reconciling Drug Use With Ethics and Religion

By William Leo February 22, 2018

As a Jesuit university, Georgetown has always had a strong connection to religious traditions and ethics. But when drugs are involved, deeply held beliefs can seem dizzying and contradictory. From...

Panelists included Rick Smolan, a New York Times best-selling author; Cathy O’Neil, author of The New York Times’ best seller “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy”; Chuck Todd, NBC News political director and moderator of “Meet the Press”; and Mayra Buvinic, a member of the United Nations Foundation and senior fellow at Data2X.

Panelists Discuss Data Ethics

By Caroline Gardner February 6, 2018

Data has the potential to significantly change society, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Director and Georgetown philosophy professor Maggie Little said during a panel discussion of the ethical use of information...

Enforcing Corporate Ethics

Enforcing Corporate Ethics

By Mercy Radithupa February 17, 2017

The Trump administration plans to sign an executive order to suspend the section of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that prevents U.S. companies from selling and trading conflict...

CARNES: Embracing Our Jesuit Heritage

CARNES: Embracing Our Jesuit Heritage

By Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. January 31, 2017

Somehow it seems mightily appropriate that we celebrate Jesuit Heritage Week during these post-inauguration and post-march days, as our nation embarks on a transition of administrations that has thus far...

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