Faculty Chosen for 2009 VOICES Faculty Ethics Fellows Program

Ethics Across the Curriculum, along with support from the VOICES Project, would like to announce the faculty chosen for the 2009 VOICES Faculty Ethics Fellows program.

The fellows represent a range of disciplines across the curriculum and University, and each project has the potential to make a discernible impact here at Saint Louis University, as well as in the wider community.

Fellowship recipients/projects are as follows:

1. Renzo Llorente, Ph.D., department of humanities, SLU Madrid, "Ethics Journals for Phil 205 Ethics Courses"

2. Jintong Tang, Ph.D., department of management, "Do Ethically Suspect Behaviors Prevent or Promote Firm Growth?"

3. Andrew Steele, M.D., FACOG, department of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health, "Training OB/GYN Residents within a Catholic Healthcare Context"

4. Mary (Rina) M. Chittooran, Ph.D., department of educational studies, "The Ethics of Research with Children in Schools"

5. Erin Chambers, Ph.D., department of computer science, David Letscher, Ph.D., department of  computer science, William Rehg, S.J., Ph.D., department of philosophy, "Computer Ethics"

Mark Ruff, Ph.D., department of history, "Genocide in the 20th Century and Its Aftermath"

These fellows will receive a stipend to: a) revise a current departmental course or develop a new course incorporating ethics as an integrated element of study; and/or b) conduct research and write an essay for presentation and/or publication about an ethics-related issue or topic, which may also have pedagogical outcomes, in their home discipline. To learn more about the VOICES Project or Ethics Across the Curriculum, visit http://voices.slu.edu.