CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!

NSF EXTENDS ISU MODEL BIOETHICS INSTITUTE GRANT

The Iowa State University Model Bioethics Institute will once again be held at Michigan State University thanks to an extension on a grant recently announced by the National Science Foundation's Ethics and Values Studies Program. The Institute is designed to help faculty members in the life sciences to learn basic methods, principles, and pedagogical strategies in bioethics. The Institute focuses on issues surrounding the environment, hunger, animals, development, population, global survival, and agriculture.

This, the third national ISU Bioethics Institute, will be held on the MSU campus in East Lansing, MI. It will convene at 7:30 p.m on Tuesday 13 May, and will end at 5 p.m. on Saturday 17 May 1997. Tenured and tenure track life science faculty members from around the world are eligible to apply. The deadline for applications is 1 April 1997, with preference given to those received by 1 March.

The workshop assists faculty members who wish to give students additional opportunities to discuss these issues in existing science courses, by providing practical, hands-on, sessions introducing case studies, classroom exercises, bibliographies, and other strategies used successfully by life scientists to introduce ethics into classes.

Participants are asked to read a book on ethical theory as advance preparation.

Participants receive books and materials on ethics, and four vegetarian lunches. Participants not from MSU receive $250 as partial reimbursement toward their expenses.

Topics and Speakers Include:

Environmental ethics, by Dr. Lilly-Marlene Russow
Animal rights and welfare, by Dr. Gary Varner
Food and duties to developing countries, by Dr. William Aiken
Biotechnology, patenting of life forms, by Dr. Fred Gifford
Rights to water and land, by Dr. Paul Thompson
Family farms & the unsettling of America, by Dr. Charles Taliaferro
Using case studies to teach bioethics, by Dr. Tom Tomlinson

The project director is Dr. Gary Comstock, Coordinator of the Bioethics Program at Iowa State University. Comstock has directed previous Institutes at Iowa State, Illinois, Michigan State, and Purdue. He will be joined by Dr. Fred Gifford, Philosophy Department, Michigan State, and by internationally recognized experts in bioethics, who will lecture on moral theory and applied ethics.

The Bioethics Institute is a national faculty development workshop supported by NSF and MSU's Colleges of Natural Science; Agriculture and Natural Resources; and Veterinary Medicine. For more information, contact Gary Comstock.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Call for Applications to ISU Model Bioethics Institute Ten Case Studies in Non-Medical Bioethics Herbicide-Resistant Rice, by Tom Hodges, Jim Vorst, et. al (commentary by G. Comstock) Case Study: Euthenasia in Veterinary Medicine by Walt Weirich Genetic Engineering of Food, by Sally Mackenzie et al. Four Case Studies by Gary Varner Dehorning Calves, by Steven Bursian, et al. Two Case Studies by Gary Comstock Constructing Case Studies for Ethics Teaching, by Tom Tomlinson Bioethics Workshop Participants, Purdue, 1996 ISU Model Bioethics Institute Participants, Michigan State University, 1996 ISU Model Bioethics Institute Staff and Speakers, Michigan State University, 1996