Recognizing Ethics Center Student Achievement and Congratulating the Class of 2021!
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On June 9th, the Ethics Center held a virtual celebration to recognize the following graduating seniors from Ethics Center internships and programs. We wish these students all the best as they embark on their life beyond SCU. We are grateful for their contributions and we look forward to opportunities to have a continued partnership with them as they integrate ethics into their respective career and life journeys.
Business Ethics Interns
Matthew DeSimone ’21, Isabella Draskovic ’21, Max Higareda ’21
Environmental Ethics Fellows
Taylor Ellis ’21, Rebecca Poirier ’21
Ethics Bowl Team
Courtney Davis ’21, Mohit Gandhi ’21, Adán González ’21, Zachary Meade ’21, Lia Petronio ’21
Hackworth Fellows
Courtney Davis ’21, Julian Dreiman ’21, Lily Evans ’21, Abby Fafinski ’21, Alexandra George ’21, Julia Jenak ’21, Vas Kumar ’21
Honzel Fellow
Alex Quan ’21
Healthcare Ethics Interns
Jazzy Benes ’21, Emma Brennan ’21, Afton Burrell ’21, Michael Cordova-Wang ’21, Noël Del Toro ’21, Christian Jimenez ’21, Brendan Lawler ’21, Kaitlyn Leung ’21, Nicole McInerney ’21, Amelia Wheaton ’21
Marketing and Communications Intern
Sahale Greenwood ’21
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Students from Ethics Center Programs Honored With Awards Across the University
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Abby Fafinski ’21, 2020-21 Hackworth Fellow was awarded the Neider Family Alumni Service Award from Santa Clara University
Alex Quan ’21, the 2020-21 Honzel Fellow was awarded the Nobili Medal from Santa Clara University
Sahale Greenwood ’21, Ethics Center Marketing and Communications Intern received the Justin T. McCarthy Oratory Award for Excellence in Journalism from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Congratulations to Abby, Alex, and Sahale on these well-deserved campus-wide accomplishments.
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Aysha Gardner Selected as 2021-22 Honzel Fellow
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After a rigorous and competitive application process, 2020-21 Healthcare Ethics Intern, Aysha Gardner ’22 was selected for the 2021-2022 Honzel Fellowship for Health Care Ethics.
This fellowship is awarded to an outstanding (rising) senior from the Health Care Ethics Internship. The Fellow serves as a peer mentor to students in the Health Care Ethics Internship and develops an ethics project with particular relevance to students and alumni. Aysha's project will create a series of podcasts to address the ethical issues that adolescents with chronic medical conditions face as they transition into adulthood.
The Ethics Center looks forward to Aysha's involvement in our healthcare ethics programs during the next academic year.
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Hackworth Fellowships Project Showcase and Spotlight
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On May 17th, we held the 2020-21 Hackworth Fellowships Project Showcase. In this virtual event, David DeCosse, director of Religious and Catholic Ethics and Campus Ethics Programs was emcee as the 2020-21 Hackworth Fellows each presented an overview of their year-long, ethics-focused projects.
Complementing the Showcase, we launched a special edition of our Ethics Spotlight which highlights each of the chosen topics and the ethical issues explored by each Fellow. These two events allow the students to present their findings and reflect on not only the knowledge they gained but the experiences they will take with them into their field of study and life beyond SCU.
A recording of the May 17th Showcase is available for replay for those interested in learning more about the projects or sharing the event.
The Hackworth Showcase Ethics Spotlight covers a range of topics with ethical considerations including AI, healthcare disparities for Black communities, human dignity, misinformation, and hope. Explore and enjoy the thought-provoking work of these eleven talented students.
Hackworth Fellowships are supported by a generous grant from Joan and the late Michael Hackworth. We are grateful for their investment in this premier Ethics Center program.
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Amana Liddell ’22 Helps Deliver Programming to Promote Vaccination in Marginalized Communities
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Amana Liddell ’22 spent her year-long Hackworth Project studying healthcare disparity within Black communities and enthusiastically accepted the opportunity to further collaborate with the Ethics Center this summer to support the delivery and promotion of a series of webinars aimed at reducing vaccine hesitancy and increasing vaccination rates in marginalized communities. Liddell will support the Ethics Center by conducting research related to webinar topics, creating presentation support materials, event promotion assets, and assist with project management.
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The webinar series is one part of the Get Vaccinated project, a collaboration between the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County made possible through a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
In addition to the webinar series, the Ethics Center has produced a set of media materials, PSA videos, and a Get Vaccinated flyer available in multiple languages (English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Mandarin) to support practitioners, nonprofit organizations, parish staff, social action directors, and school personnel as they encourage vaccination and address misinformation within their communities.
The materials and videos for download or distribution and webinar recordings and future event information are all available from the Get Vaccinated website.
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Summer 2021
Get Vaccinated Webinar Series
Throughout the summer the Ethics Center will host a series of educational webinars designed to help viewers understand the moral, ethical, and medical efficacy aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and offer answers to common concerns and questions as the pandemic situation and vaccination efforts evolve.
Next event: 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. Thursday, July 1, 2021.
Registration coming soon. Visit scu.edu/ethics/get-vaccinated.
Missed a recent event? Recordings are now available for these recently held virtual events on the Ethics Center Youtube Channel. Stay informed about future events via our event listings webpage.
Get Vaccinated Webinar Series
June 17, 2021: Love Your Neighbor and Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy
COVID-19 Vaccinations rolled out quickly in the winter and spring, but now have slowed. We are facing the challenge of overcoming vaccine hesitancy in hopes of bringing the pandemic to a close. This webinar will review key reasons for vaccine hesitancy, and offer a space to share strategies and insights in light of the call to love your neighbor and get vaccinated.
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Irina Raicu spoke with NPR about the cancellation of a Snapchat 'speed filter' and the importance of risk assessment to avoid possible abuses.
In an interview with the Washington Post exploring if teens' social media posts should disappear as they age, Irina Raicu asks, “Should we judge people for who they are now or who they were, years or decades ago?”, and on Morning Brew she spoke about the ethics of using deceased famous people for branding, even with consent from relatives.
Charles Binkley and Brian Green co-authored an article published in JAMA Surgery highlighting the lack of consideration that is given to the ethical issues that arise from the use of intraoperative AI clinical decision support systems (AI CDSSs).
AI, Ethics, and the Vatican were topics of conversation with Brian Green on SparkDialog, and addresses the topic of carebots and senior care with Lifewire.
Charles Binkley commented on ethicists' challenges to responding to a physician's inappropriate behavior on Relias Media, and about the ethical and environmental issues related to UCSB's use of gene-editing technology on mosquitos with KBCX Central Coast Radio.
On In Depth news radio, Don Heider talked about the relationship between journalists and politicians.
Anita Varma carries the importance of the ethics of solidarity journalism in these articles by Poynter about how local news covered the George Floyd protests, and with the Reynolds Journalism Institute emphasizes the importance of reporting that focuses on the people subjected.
John Pelissero commented on a lawsuit that claims Richmond mayor steered development decisions in violation of ethics laws on Richmond Confidential.
For a full list of Ethics Center staff newsmakers, visit Media Mentions.
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Content and programs offered by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics are made possible, in part, by generous financial support from our community. With your help, we can continue to develop resources that help people see, understand, and work through ethical problems.
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