Congratulations to Wake Forest University faculty who have been awarded fellowships and recieved promotions. Wake Forest Faculty Fellowships______________________________ The Wake Forest Faculty Fellowship is a program of financial support designed to honor our best teacher-scholars. Recipients are: Rebecca Alexander (CHM), The F.M. Kirby Family Faculty Fellowship< Laura Aull […]
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The symposium, Ebola: At Home and Abroad, held Feb. 12-13 demonstrated the importance of a liberal arts education. Even though Ebola is a virus, attendees learned that to effectively respond to the outbreak requires knowledge of history, economics, law, bioethics, as well as […]
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Congratulations to David J. Anderson, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Evoluntionary ecology of seabird reproductive life histories” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Congratulations to Ana Iltis, associate professor of philosophy, whose proposal entitled“Center for Bioethics, Health and Social Visiting […]
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Ana Iltis, associate professor of philosophy, was first author on a paper that just appeared in JAMA Psychiatry (formerly Archives of General Psychiatry). The paper, “Addressing Risks to Advance Mental Health Research,” provides mental health researchers with practical approaches to identify, communicate, manage and justify […]
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The deadline for the next round of applications for funding from the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society is Jan. 14, 2013. The Center for Bioethics, Health, and Society welcomes a wide variety of bioethics proposals. Fundable projects include conceptual or empirical research, course […]
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When Ana Iltis, co-director of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, and a colleague at Saint Louis University read the bioethics journals in their field, they both thought something was missing — the voices of the people in the cases or research. […]
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With numerous reports documenting poorer quality of health care and outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities, several prominent experts will take on the issue of disparities in health care during a symposium on campus March 16. The symposium, “Race, Genetics, Medicine and Health Disparities,” is […]
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Cloning. Genetic testing. Stem-cell research. Medical experiments. End-of-life decisions. With new breakthroughs in science and medicine often racing ahead of ethical concerns, Wake Forest’s new Center for Bioethics, Health and Society is addressing some of the most relevant issues at the heart of biotechnology, medical […]
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