Adrienne Arsht Increases
Ethics Gift to $3 Million
Donation is Largest in Florida History
Trustee, philanthropist and community leader Adrienne Arsht has committed to give a $5 million donation to the University of Miami, including $2 million for the University's Ethics Programs, adding to an earlier $1 million donation and constituting the largest gift for ethics in Florida history. More»
Arsht Initiatives
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About the Initiatives
Community leader Adrienne Arsht is giving $3 million to benefit the University of Miami's Ethics Programs. Ms. Arsht's gifts support a suite of university-wide, interdisciplinary initiatives: an ethics debate series, a distinguished speakers program and and a research program and, in the future, a visiting scholar initiative and faculty development projects.
Activity Update
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:: The University of Miami Faculty Senate has selected Ethics Programs Co-Director Anita Cava, associate professor of business law at the School of Business, as the recipient of its 2009 Outstanding Teaching Award. More» Prof. Cava has also just received the UM Alumni Association's "Inside Out" award, “presented to a member of the UM administration, faculty or staff who historically is working on the inside helping to bring those on the outside who used to be inside but are now outside back inside.”
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BUSINESS ETHICS PROGRAM PARTNERS WITH mba NONPROFIT UNIT
UM's School of Business MBA Consultants to Nonprofits Program continues to make a difference in its third year with the American Red Cross of Greater Miami & the Keys and the Miami Children’s Museum participating. The summer internship program, which links full-time MBA students with area nonprofits, is sponsored by Adam Carlin, MBA ‘94, principal of Bermont/Carlin Group, a local Citigroup Smith Barney affiliate, and the university's Business Ethics Program. More»
florida public health emergency ethics committee
The Miami-Dade County Hospital Preparedness Consortium, created by the Miami-Dade County Health Department, has established an Ethics Advisory Group to work with other emergency planners to ensure that ethical issues are adequately addressed during the planning process. Working in close cooperation with the Health Council of South Florida and the University of Miami Ethics Programs, the Ethics Advisory Group has begun meeting to draft ethics policy guidelines and prepare related resources. More»
SAVE THE DATE: International Conference on Communication in Healthcare
We're partnering with the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, the world's largest gathering of researchers, educators and administrators focusing on improving communication in healthcare.The conference is set for Oct. 4-7, 2009 in Miami Beach. More»
Robert wood johnson foundation's "project health design"
Project HealthDesign, a research-and-development initiative to explore aspects of personal health records (PHR), has come to represent the first-ever project in health information technology to include an ethics component at the outset. Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the program featured multidisciplinary grantee teams from across the United States. The University of Miami Ethics Programs received a grant to oversee Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) analysis for the project. The UM grant linked faculty from the Miller School of Medicine, the School of Law and the School of Business Administration.View a webcast of "New Frontiers in Personal Health Records: A Report Out from Project HealthDesign and Forum on Next-Generation PHRs"; explore Project HealthDesign grantee project information; and review UM's ethics contributions.
THE TIMELINE PROJECT
Timelines can be useful resources for students, researchers, policy makers and others. UM Ethics Programs have initiated "The TimeLine Project" to develop and feature timelines on a variety of topics. Just published: Florida and U.S. stem cell policy timelines, prepared by UM medical student Harry Ritter. The project grew out of the extraordinary success of our web resource on the Terri Schiavo case, including a timeline of critical events and associated documents.
SUMMER ETHICS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: A DECADE OF SUPPORT FOR STUDENT RESEARCH
The University of Miami offers a variety of summer internships in ethics and the professions. Interns are expected to work on a mentored research project in bioethics, business ethics, government and professional ethics or the like. Interns, who receive a modest stipend, meet regularly in small groups that include didactic sessions and at which they update faculty and each other on progress in their projects. Students are expected to complete a final, written report at the end of the session. Created in 1996 with philosophy students as the core constituency, the Summer Ethics Internship Program is traditionally sponsored by the University of Miami Ethics Programs, the Department of Philosophy and the College of Arts and Sciences. Click here for a history of summer interns and, in most cases, project titles and abstracts. When projects have resulted in publications, the citations are given. For more information, email the UM Ethics Programs at ethics@miami.edu.
ETHICS AND GUARDIANSHIP
Florida's Statewide Public Guardianship Office has sponsored Case Studies in Guardianship Ethics, a special resource for Florida's guardians, lawyers and courts. More»
ETHICS CURRICULUM PROJECT
We've been working with the Youth Ethics Initiative, other South Florida universities and Miami-Dade County Public Schools on an unprecedented Ethics Curriculum Project, an effort to develop teacher-friendly tools for addressing ethics across the curriculum . Click here for the latest call for proposals. And have a look at a news report on the project.
TOOLS FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHERS
Review our expanding resources for researchers in the Caribbean and Latin America. More»
In Print
Ethics Programs Co-Directors Kenneth Goodman and Anita Cava have just published "Bioethics, business ethics, and science: Bioinformatics and the future of healthcare" in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Click here for a full-text PDF copy ... CITI Program Co-PI Paul Branschweiger and Ethics Programs Co-Director Ken Goodman have published "The CITI Program: An International Online Resource for Education in Human Subjects Protection and the Responsible Conduct of Research" in Academic Medicine. Click here for the abstract ... Ethics Programs Co-Director Anita Cava has recently co-authored "Integrative Social Contract Theory and Urban Prosperity Initiatives" in the Journal of Business Ethics. Click here for the abstract. The book Case Studies in Public Health Ethics, co-authored by Goodman, has recently been translated into Mandarin Chinese (right); more».
To request reprints or to submit a publication for a future listing, please contact us.
In Memoriam
Dr. Jane Mary Trau, a well-known Miami-based bioethics scholar and Catholic moral theologian, has died. More»
Dr. Phil Pennell, a longtime ethics educator, has died. A nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Dr. Pennell helped introduce ethics into the school's curriculum in the 1980s. More».
About us
Now in their 18th year, UM Ethics Programs foster and support a range of
efforts dedicated to education, research and community service in ethics and the
professions. We do this by sponsoring and developing a variety of courses,
conferences, research projects, seminars and other activities around the
University of Miami and with partners throughout Florida, the United States and
the Americas.
This university-wide inter- and multi-disciplinary program has emphasized work in bioethics, business and professional ethics and scientific ethics.
From undergraduate UM academic societies to the federal government, the Ethics Programs have enjoyed a variety of collaborations on and contributions to special projects. For more information about these efforts, to propose additional projects or to contribute to or sponsor our work, please contact us.
