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FEBRUARY 2021  |  SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY 

Craig Newmark Funds Journalism Ethics Initiative

The Ethics Center proudly announces the receipt of a $100,000 grant from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to help digital media outlets and aggregators prioritize and elevate stories affecting our most vulnerable populations. The grant supports the Journalism and Media Ethics program initiative, Keeping Issues in the News (KIN), which will collaboratively develop recommended practices for digital news media and social platforms to keep ongoing issues—those that affect the most vulnerable people—in the news.

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2020 Grants Total Over $1 Million

The Ethics Center received generous grants in 2020, totaling over a million dollars. These allocations are for projects designed to generate greater equality and diversity in technology and journalism. The funding organizations; including Google, Facebook, Newmark Philanthropies, and many other prominent organizations; value the Ethics Center as an expert in these fields. 
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Internship Evolves Amidst Global Pandemic

The Health Care Ethics Internship, led by Dr. Charles Binkley, provides students with an ethical perspective on health care to better prepare them to affect ethically sound health care outcomes. Traditionally,  interns have rotated through hospitals and health centers. Because of COVID-19, the internship was adapted to bring a variety of health care professionals, lawyers, geneticists, patients, and often nationally recognized experts, into the class to better illustrate some of the key ethical dilemmas in health care. 
Learn more, apply & read the new internship blog 

Honzel Fellow Prepares for Med School

The Honzel Fellowship in Health Care Ethics is awarded each year to an outstanding (rising) senior from the Health Care Ethics Internship Program who demonstrates a passion for ethics as it relates to health care. The 2020-21 recipient of the Fellowship is Alex Quan '21, a senior majoring in neuroscience and minoring in art history, philosophy, and biology. 
Read more about Alex and the Honzel Fellowship
 

Upcoming Events

February

COVID-19 and the Ethics of Scarcity 
12 Noon PST Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 
Ethics Center Associate Director Margaret McLean lectures on ethics relating to health care, health care justice and equity, and biotechnology in this livestream lecture sponsored by the California Section of the American Chemical Society.

Gender and Racial Bias in Venture Capital 
12 Noon PST Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021

Research shows that gender and racial biases continue to persist among investors, and in some cases, the biases have actually risen in 2020. The panelist discussion hosted by the Association Corporate Growth Silicon Valley (ACGSV) in collaboration with the School of Engineering and the Ethics Center includes Maya Ackerman, assistant professor of computer science and engineering and faculty scholar with the Ethics Center, and Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics at the Ethics Center.

Ignatian Practices to Get You Through the Next 10 Years
5:00 p.m. PST Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021

Learn from David DeCosse, director of religious and Catholic ethics, and Campus Ethics Programs at the Ethics Center, and Jennifer Merritt, director, community based learning with the Ignatian Center as they present an introduction to the 
Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus with a discussion to follow.

March - Save the Date 
Full details on how to attend these events will be available in our March Newsletter.

Virtual Forum Series: Legal/Ethics & Vaccinations
12 Noon PST Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2021

Dr. Charles Binkley will present on this most important topic at a virtual event co-sponsored by the Alumni Association and the School of Law.

Intentional Integrity
12 Noon PST Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2021
A conversation with Rob Chesnut, author, "Intentional Integrity" and Senior Director, Leadership Ethics, Ann Skeet.

Media Mentions 

Brian Green was quoted in Fortune talking about ethical uses of AI. 

• 2015-16 Hackworth Fellow Kelly Shi's article, Being Nice vs. Being Kind, was quoted in Inc.

• The National Catholic Reporter published an article by David DeCosse about a message of unity from St. Augustine. 

Ann Skeet was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle talking about the ethics of the GameStop stock surge and Robinhood's business model. 

• An op-ed by John Pelissero addressing the inclusion of virtue and common good in President Biden's inaugural message was published in the San Francisco Chronicle. He was also quoted in The Mercury News on the potential ethical conflicts in the Newmark school board's unusual hiring. 

The Mercury News quoted Charles Binkley saying legalities and ethics are more important than being nice when it comes to vaccinations. 

 • Subbu Vincent was quoted on ABC7 News talking about Facebook's committee review of Trump's account suspension. 

 
For a full list of Ethics Center staff newsmakers, visit Media Mentions.
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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