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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Reference & Program Specialist Roxie France-Nuriddin’s reading-intensive, four-course seminar on “Constructing an ‘Islamic Bioethics'” examined both classical and modern problems.
This month, Deputy Director of Reference Martina Darragh’s latest collaborative article was published in the journal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine.
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.
Mark Hakkarinen will present at the 11th International Conference on Open Repositories at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
With nearly double the submissions as last year’s inaugural competition, the second Showcase event featured many student winners in a variety of categories.
MUSE magazine, a premiere publication for children’s science and art, interviews KIE director Maggie Little and profiles EthicsLab.
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.
KIE Head of Academic Programs Laura Bishop was published in last month’s Hastings Center Report.
Student newspaper The Hoya profiles some members of the KIE team associated with the recent multi-million dollar NIH grant the Institute received for the ethical inclusion of pregnant women in HIV research.
On Wednesday 30th September, Georgetown University Press, in collaboration with the KIE and the Philosophy Department, launched Bioethics and the Human Goods: An Introduction to Natural Law Ethics.