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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.  

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.

Dr. Nancy Jecker was awarded the 2025 Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International BRIDGE Fellowship. The fellowship supports former JSPS International Fellows with an eye to sustaining and growing collaborative research between American and Japanese scholars. 

We are proud to announce a new Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics Scholarship this year in honor of Dr. Jim Kirkpatrick, a beloved former SS faculty, Montlake committee chair, and ethics consultant. His unexpected passing in January has left a profound void among us, and his absence is deeply felt throughout the UW Bioethics community. 

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The Department of Bioethics and Humanities is pleased to share that faculty member Dr. Nancy Jecker and affiliate faculty member Dr. Caesar Atuire have a new book with Oxford University Press: What Is a Person?: Untapped Insights from Africa.

We have a new director! The Bioethics & Humanities Department is happy to introduce our new Summer Seminar Program Director, Noa T Brazg, Phd, MSW, MPH!

Join us this August for 3.5 days of interactive virtual learning at our summer seminar in healthcare ethics. Look out for more information coming soon!

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