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May 14, 2025, 12:00pm
May 12, 2025, 12:00am
Dr. Nancy Jecker, Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine, was awarded a 2026 Brocher Foundation Residency. The Brocher Foundation Residency supports researchers from around the world to engage in intensive research projects in a peaceful setting on the shores of Lake Geneva, at the Foundation’s home in Hermance, Switzerland. It facilitates the exchange of ideas between resident researchers.
May 1, 2025, 12:00am
Just two more weeks until registration costs go up for our Summer Seminar!
Get the early bird pricing while its still available, $100 off registration costs until May 15th.
Scholarships and group discounts are available. Details and registration information can be found here: https://shorturl.at/HU8Vb
April 29, 2025, 10:15am
We are thrilled to extend our sincerest congratulations to Bao Han Ngo, B.S. Statistics: Data Science; B.S. Human Evolutionary Biology, Minor Bioethics; Loveleen Tripathi, B.S. Neuroscience, Minor Bioethics; Shawn Panh, B.S. Neuroscience; B.A. Biochemistry, Minor Philosophy, Bioethics; and Sheamin Kim B.S.
April 29, 2025, 12:00am
This interdisciplinary symposium, co-sponsored by the University of Ghana’s Department of Philosophy & Classics and the University of Washington’s Department of Bioethics & Humanities, will bring together scholars from Africa and the West to examine how personhood emerges and its implications for the moral status of humans and nonhumans, including AI, animals and nature.