The Chief of Bioethics: Why the Fact That Bioethics is Difficult to Explain is a Positive Development

The field of bioethics is evolving, incorporating many disciplines and varying definitions. Bioethicists are having a great impact on science and medical policy

Preparing Students for Careers That Do Not Yet Exist

The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), as a self-described teaching and learning laboratory for imagination and inquiry, has a history of pursuing innovations closely aligned with the vision and framework of the National Science Education Standards. Innovations include both methods and materials for inquiry-based student instruction as well as for delivering professional development for pre-service and practicing teachers. Instructional innovations described include yearlong student inquiry and research projects (SIR), self-paced physics instruction, student-driven energy and engineering projects, instruction in innovation and entrepreneurialism, and a host of student-led outreach activities to ignite and nurture creative, ethical, scientific minds of students through- out Illinois and beyond. Highlighted practices for improving the effectiveness of current STEM teachers as well as training and inspiring prospective STEM teachers included IMSA\u27s Teacher Candidate Institutes, Golden Apple Scholars and signature programs of Problem-Based Learning and IMSA FUSION

A National Agenda of Excellence and Equity for Deaf People of Color

Produced by Center on Disabilities, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Frank Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts and The School of Social Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas for The Society for Disability Studies

Paradigms for Clinical Ethics Consultation Practice

Clinical bioethics is big business. There are now hundreds of people who do bioethics in community and university hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation and home care settings, and some (though quite a few less) who play the role of clinical ethics consultant to transplant teams, managed care companies, and genetic testing firms. Still, there is as much speculation about what clinically active bioethicists actually do as there was ten years ago. Various commentators have pondered the need for training standards, credentials, certification exams, and malpractice insurance for ethicists engaged in clinical consultation. Much of the discussion seems to accept an implicit presumption that all clinical ethics consultation practices look pretty much alike. But is this accurate? What do clinical ethicists do, how and where do they do it, and what kind of clinical ethics is useful in the hospital and in other settings

\u27Iceland Inc.\u27?: On the ethics of commercial population genomics

A detailed analysis of the Icelandic commercial population-wide genomics database project of deCODE Genetics was performed for the purpose of providing ethics insights into public/private efforts to develop genetic databases. This analysis examines the moral differences between the general case of governmental collection of medical data for public health purposes and the centralized collection planned in Iceland. Both the process of developing the database and its design vary in significant ways from typical government data collection and analysis activities. Because of these differences, the database may serve the interests of deCODE more than it serves the interests of the public, undermining the claim that presumed consent for this data collection and its proprietary use is ethical. We believe that there is an evolving consensus that informed consent of participants must be secured for population-based genetics databases and research. The Iceland model provides an informative counterexample that holds key ethics lessons for similar ventures

DigitalCommons Report: 2013 Board of Directors

“We will generate scholarship that discovers, integrates, applies and demonstrates the effectiveness of our practices and transfers knowledge produced by our work

2011 Convocation

Pledge of Allegiance and Welcome: Aadi Tolappa, Student Council President; Dr. Glenn W. Max McGee, IMSA President; Dr. Eric McLaren, IMSA Principal & Vice President for Academic Programs Featured Piece: Dr. Jeong Hwang-Choe, IMSA Science Faculty Member Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lillian Kao, Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Texas Health Science Center Closing Remarks: Dr. Eric McLare

2010 Convocation

Prelude Music: Balaji Mani, 2006 IMSA Graduate Pledge of Allegiance and Welcome: Shawon Jackson, Student Council President; Dr. Glenn W. Max McGee, President; Dr. Eric McLaren, Principal Featured Piece: Balaji Mani, 2006 IMSA Graduate Keynote Speaker: Dr. Julie Crawford, 1998 IMSA Graduat