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The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame has released its sixth annual list of emerging ethical dilemmas and policy issues in science and technology. The annual list is designed to get people thinking about the ethics of potentially controversial technology, but the 2018 list shows that many of these issues are already here.  

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p(image-right). !/assets/32816/don_howard_icon_crop.jpg(Don Howard)! A new NSF-funded program in the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values is encouraging STEM Ph.D. students to go beyond standard research ethics training and look at their research in terms of its social relevance. The people behind the project are Don Howard, Reilly fellow and former director of the center, Melinda Gormley, assistant director for research of the center, and Mark Bourgeois, a postdoc hired to implement the program. Students in this program will learn about the broad social and political context of scientific work as well as its many complex, often nonobvious, connections with society.

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p(image-right). !/assets/151023/google_glass_icon.jpg(Google Glass)! The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame has released its annual list of emerging ethical dilemmas and policy issues in science and technology for 2015. The Reilly Center explores conceptual, ethical, and policy issues where science and technology intersect with society from different disciplinary perspectives. Its goal is to promote the advancement of science and technology for the common good.

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p(image-right). !/assets/53998/anjan_chakravartty_icon.jpg(Anjan Chakravartty)! The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame is pleased to announce its new director, Anjan Chakravartty, a professor in the Department of Philosophy. Chakravartty takes over the directorship of the Reilly Center on July 1, 2014.

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