The Research Ethics Concentration within the MA in Bioethics and Medical Humanities is designed to prepare students to pursue research ethics-related work or empirical investigations. Scientific ...

Oriel Zagazeta is a biology major with a chemistry minor and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. The use of stem cells in health care ...

The core values that anchor responsible scientific research — like honesty in reporting research results and openness in sharing materials — are stable over time, but that isn’t true for the contexts ...

Social science researchers engaged in primary data collection often consider a range of ethical issues during the planning of their research, but such considerations are rarely articulated upfront or ...

Ethics in STEM is a research area that focuses on the critical ethical dimensions of our designed and engineered world. We seek to challenge various cultural assumptions about what ethics is and how ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. When it comes to the ethical issues raised by artificial ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems have been in development for decades. The release of freely available generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard, however, has emphasized the need ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...