Vote for APPE Board Members Current APPE members received instructions on how to vote in this year's election for APPE Board Members. There are 11 candidates standing for five open positions. They are: Board Candidates Standing for Re-Election: Julia (Julie) Pedroni, PhD
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College Jun Fudano, PhD
Professor, Center for Higher Education Studies, Waseda University Board Candidates Standing for First Term Election: Vivian Altiery De Jesus MD, MBE
PGY-3 Internal Medicine and Rising Chief Resident, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Lida Anestidou, DVM, MS, PhD
Principal, Communities in Science, LLC Liza Dawson, PhD, MA
Chief of Bioethics, IRB chair, and Research Integrity Officer at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) Robert V. Doyle, PhD
Associate Professor of Religious Studies & Director of MA in Religious Studies, Felician University Amber E. George, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Philosophy at Galen College Mohammad Hosseini, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Patrick Lee Plaisance, PhD
Don W. Davis Professor in Ethics, Pennsylvania State University Laine Walters Young, PhD
Assistant Director of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions, Vanderbilt University Gregory Wright, PhD
Professor of English and Philosophy, Snow College
You can read the candidates' bios and statements of interest here.
APPE members--please follow the instructions emailed to you on how to cast your vote by April 14. If you did not receive an email to vote and believe this to be an error, please email contact@appe-ethics.org. |
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Conference Wrap-up We enjoyed seeing new and long-time APPE members, students, first time attendees, and friends from across the globe at the one-day Virtual Conference on Friday, March 29 as part of our annual conference events. Nearly 50 presentations were delivered on topics such as AI, climate change, ethical work environments, green nudges, nanoplastics, and more.
If you haven't yet, please consider completing a survey to help us continue to improve the conference experience: Don't forget to Save the Dates for the next two conferences:- February 20-23, 2025: Norfolk, Virginia
- March 5-8, 2026: St. Louis
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Join us for the April Book Club Meeting  This year's first Ethically Curious Book Club meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 10 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., ET. We'll be discussing Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro. APPE Member Michael Loui (see more below) will be moderating the conversation.
Join us on Bookclubs.com to receive the Zoom link about the meeting and to vote on future books and meeting times.
About the book:
“Ishiguro’s prose is soft and quiet. It feels like the perfect book to curl up with on a Sunday afternoon. He allows the story to unfold slowly and organically, revealing enough on every page to continue piquing the reader’s curiosity. The novel is an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures...a poignant meditation on love and loneliness.”
—Maggie Sprayregen, The Associated Press
Up next is Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Stay tuned for more details!
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Upcoming Ethics Roundtable on AI In partnership with Felician University, APPE invites you to attend the last in a series of AI-related virtual Ethics Roundtables. These events consist of a short, 15-minute panel presentation followed by interactive conversation. Ethics Roundtables are free and open to the public. RSVPs are not required. Innovation with Responsibility: Ethics and the Applied Uses of AI
Wednesday, April 17 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. ET
Topic: Applied Uses of AI
How might AI be useful?
Panel: Dennis Cooley, Kosti Psimopoulos, Jason Eberl, and Lee Anne Peck Livestream information: |
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APPE Member Spotlight Name: Michael C. Loui Title: Professor Emeritus
Organization/institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
How long you've been an APPE member: Since 1995
You've been a member of the APPE Ethically Curious Book Club since the beginning. Are you involved in other book clubs? What's special about this one?
I belong to one other book club, whose members are mostly retired professors. They come from all academic fields on campus. The APPE club is special because its members actually listen to each other.
We've asked you to moderate the next discussion, about the book Klara and the Sun, on April 10. Can you tease some of the themes of the book or what you hope to discuss?
The book raises ethical questions about love, loneliness, social class, and artificial intelligence. Should we select children for genetic editing to enhance their academic abilities, giving them educational advantages over others? Should we create a robot to replace a loved one who has died?
This will be our first fictional read for the book club. How can novels based in the future help us talk through today's issues, like artificial intelligence?
Fiction can help us build empathy by learning the perspectives of others. These external perspectives can also improve our understanding of ourselves. Science fiction presents a futuristic perspective to illuminate contemporary problems. In our book, the narrator Klara is an "artificial friend," and we see the human world through her perspective.
You also attended the APPE Annual Conference in February. What sessions or presentations have stuck with you?
I liked the presentation by Tristan McIntosh on her virtual peer mentoring program for early career researchers. This program could be adopted by other communities.
Tell us about a project (personally or professionally) that you're currently working on.
Although I directed the children's choir at my church for twelve years, I had never sung in a choir until last summer, when I joined a local community chorus, The Chorale. We will next perform in April. |
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Ethics in the News: - AI Ethical Review Should Empower Innovation—Not Prevent It (Fast Company)
- The Dubious Ethics of “the World’s Most Ethical Companies” (The Nation)
- The Ethics Of Progress (Forbes)
- Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library (The New York Times)
- These new museums (and more) are changing the way Black history is told across America (USA Today)
- THE RECKONING: Didier Raoult and his institute found fame during the pandemic. Then, a group of dogged critics exposed major ethical failings (Science)
- Scientists Tend to Inflate How Ethical They Are in Doing Their Research (Forbes)
Jobs & Events Have you seen our job and event emails? Limited free access to post jobs and events of interest in the weekly email (as well as in the Info Hub) is a benefit of membership. If you're a member and would like to submit something for consideration, just login to the Member portal, go to Job & Event Postings and click "add." Non-members can access the jobs and events by creating a login but must pay a fee to list positions and events. Reach out to contact@appe-ethics.org for more info.
We Want to Hear From You! To be featured as a member spotlight or if you have news to share, including books published, send us an email at membernews@appe-ethics.org. |
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Ethics Bowl Cases to Consider National High School Ethics Bowl, 2024 National Championship Case Set Later this month, high schoolers from across the U.S. will head to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the National High School Ethics Bowl Championship. As in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, they'll all be answering questions drawn from a set of cases, which include real-life ethical questions and dilemmas such as: - Can't Help My Shelf: Is it permissible to publish (unfinished) work if a creator is unable to consent to it?
- Tip Creep: Are payment interfaces that suggest large tip amounts by default objectionably manipulative?
- Something to Phone Home About: Under what circumstanes, if any, should schools be able to ban smartphone usage by students?
Read the full cases here, then discuss the questions above with your colleagues and friends. |
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