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November 13, 2017

KIE Research Associate Publishes Article on Emergency Involuntary Treatment Law for those with Mental Disorders

Marisha Wickremsinhe, KIE research associate and digital campaign coordinator, published an article in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. The paper, titled Emergency involuntary treatment law for people with mental disorders: A comparative analysis of legislation in LMICs, compares legislation for emergency involuntary treatment of individuals with mental disorders in low and middle income countries.

October 19, 2017

KIE research associate presents work on pregnant women in clinical trials

KIE Research Associate Marisha Wickremsinhe presented at the Gender Justice Initiative’s Second Annual Faculty Research Colloquium October 13. She discussed research in pregnancy, including the ethics of risk/benefit trade offs between woman, fetus, and future child.

September 13, 2017

Dan Davis talks collaborative online learning with the KIE

Last week, the KIE held a workshop on positive collaboration in online learning environments, led by Daniel Davis, a Georgetown Communication, Culture, and Technology alum and PhD candidate in Learner Modeling & Learning Analytics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The session focused on promoting effective collaboration and discourse among students in online learning environments.

May 12, 2017

Ethics Lab staff to present at TLISI 2017

Senior Product Designer Nico Staple and Postdoctoral Fellow Elizabeth Edenberg are scheduled to present at this year’s annual Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Summer Institute (TLISI)

March 20, 2017

Announcing “A Pound of Flesh”: New play tackles slavery, reparations, and the ethics of live organ donation

This year, directly following the Bioethics Research Showcase reception, a cast of Georgetown students, alumni, and friends will perform a stage reading of a new play by Second City’s Katie Watson.

March 17, 2017

Library Reference Services: An introduction

Learn more about the reference services provided by the KIE’s Bioethics Research Library, and the way they have shifted over the decades since the Library’s founding.

March 9, 2017

Lab team visits high school STEAM fair

Ethics Lab team members Nico Staple and Elizabeth Edenberg took some of the lab’s empathy mapping kit prototypes to share with local high schoolers, educators, and administrators in two back-to-back workshops.

January 9, 2017

Interview: KIE Deputy Director of Reference Martina Darragh on ‘poetry: usa’ festival

In this interview, Darragh speaks about her role in the founding of the US’s Language poets movement, and how her storied literary career enriches and informs her work in the Institute’s Bioethics Research Library to this day.

November 23, 2016

KIE Reference & Program Specialist completes seminar on Islamic Bioethics

Reference & Program Specialist Roxie France-Nuriddin’s reading-intensive, four-course seminar on “Constructing an ‘Islamic Bioethics'” examined both classical and modern problems.

September 27, 2016

KIE Deputy Director of Reference publishes collaborative article

This month, Deputy Director of Reference Martina Darragh’s latest collaborative article was published in the journal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine.

September 19, 2016

KIE faculty to speak at ethics symposium

Dr. Madison Powers, Dr. Robert Veatch, and Dr. Laura Bishop of the KIE will all present at Haverford College’s new Ethics in Science Symposium.

June 2, 2016

KIE Head of Information Services to present at international conference

Mark Hakkarinen will present at the 11th International Conference on Open Repositories at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

May 4, 2016

2016 Bioethics Research Showcase Winners Announced

With nearly double the submissions as last year’s inaugural competition, the second Showcase event featured many student winners in a variety of categories.

January 28, 2016

KIE & EthicsLab featured in MUSE magazine

MUSE magazine, a premiere publication for children’s science and art, interviews KIE director Maggie Little and profiles EthicsLab.

December 10, 2015

EthicsLab hosts design sessions on the ethics of big data

The Ethics Lab recently hosted multiple design sessions on big data. The team is currently identifying experts from academia and Georgetown’s alumni network to collaborate on the development and delivery of a new course for next year as well as direct impact projects on campus and beyond.

November 4, 2015

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