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Grant Application Process | Faculty Grants Awarded 2006 - 2007
Faculty Grants Awarded 2005 | Faculty Grants Awarded 2002-2003
Affiliated & Interested Faculty
Faculty Grants Awarded 2004
| Faculty & Students Involved | Schools Represented |
Brief Description of Proposed Project | Type of Project |
| Emily Rivet Andrea Meacham Stacy Jackson Joe Fox |
Business Law Medicine A&S |
In response to recent scandals and oversights in business and medicine we propose creating a workshop series on professional ethics to discuss the idea of ethics in the professional setting. The goal of the series is to increase awareness of ethical issues, foster cross-disciplinary discussions, and place attention on ethics in a way that inspires ongoing discussion among students across both campuses. | Workshop Series |
| Linda B. Cottler | Medicine | Many fields of medicine exclude high risk and vulnerable persons from their research protocols. This seminar series will address the ethical challenges involved in recruiting and enrolling high risk vulnerable populations by providing information to dispel myths and stereotypes so that more opportunities for research and health care will be available to this population. Because these populations have both a higher need for and lower access to treatment services, research with these populations carries special responsibilities as well as a need for attention to cultural issues. Thus, the series will educate other about the ethical issues involved in the inaccuracies of stereotypes, as well as offer harm reduction techniques. | Seminar Series |
| M. Klingensmith
Ravi Veeraswamy Alliric Willis |
Medicine | Beyond Tuskegee: Human Testing in the Current Age. The central axiom of modern medical ethics is the simple, do no harm. Yet the advancement of medical treatment is ultimately based on empirical evidence that a particular medication, operation or other intervention is either beneficial or harmful to human subjects. The difficulty of this situation is obvious-to improve medical science, human testing must be performed yet harm may come to the subjects because the effects of the intervention are not yet fully known. Thus it is crucial that all physicians understand the inherent ethical dilemmas that surround human testing. | Seminar Series |
| Miriam Miquelon Stacy Jackson |
Business
Law A&S |
We propose a symposium on "Corporate Governance and Ethics." Corporate debacles continue to cast doubt not only on the fiscal integrity of the market place but also upon the regulators responsible for preventing the recent floodgate of abuse and fraud. With the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, there is a change not only in regulatory oversight policies but also in the very thinking about how lawmakers should regulate private enterprise and the depth of control that should be exercised by the federal government in the marketplace. These law and policy issues are critical to the future fiscal integrity of this country and the issues are very complex. a panel discussion attended by the business and legal community. We propose a panel discussion with members from the Federal Reserve Bank, the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Department of Justice, Fraud Division, the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as a leading CEO from the St. Louis business community to examine and debate these critically important issues. | Symposium |
| Larry May
Jack Knight Rebecca Dresser |
A&S | We project a long-run "Foundations of Ethics" series where there would be three speakers per term: one each in philosophy, political science, and law. This is both an interdisciplinary project and also one that seeks to provide grounding for the many activities on our campus that concern ethics. The speakers would address the theoretical groundwork for ethics today. Theoretical ethics is routinely located in the fields of moral philosophy, political theory, and legal ethics. It is our goal to create a lecture series, as well as other activities on campus, that addresses this three-part division of the foundations of ethics, from within Philosophy, Political Science, and Law. |
Lecture Series |
| W. Schalick C. Valencius M. Fink |
A&S |
We propose an unusual interdisciplinary initiative aimed at germinating a Medical Humanities and Social Sciences (MHSS) program within Arts & Sciences. MHSS is a discipline, which embraces the history of medicine and its contemporary practice and representations. It renders visible, and therefore discussible, the implicit value systems at work in research and clinical medicine. MHSS does the same for a wide range of socio-cultural discourses that take medicine as their object. MHSS gives us a language with which to conceptualize and debate values that drive professional and ethical behavior all too often without the benefit of critical reflection. And it offers tools for facilitating deliberately conceived positive ethical and value-based structures. Our proposal encompasses two elements: 1) a faculty reading group and 2) a web-page to coordinate the activities of the group and to serve as a central posting area for lectures/activities on medical humanities and social sciences and for relevant notices/data. | Reading Group & Web Site |
| Jo Seltzer S. Rode-Perkins |
Engineering
All Schools and Faculty |
We propose to develop a booklet and companion website entitled "Writing Ethics: Plagiarism in the Electronic Age." The booklet and mirrored website will be approximately 15-20 pages long and will include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following topics: plagiarism, discussion of when to site sources, note taking, and paraphrasing. The Booklet will include practical advice on determining what is common knowledge, which internet graphics can be used freely and which cannot, and where to go for proper citation format, the definitions of fair use and copyright. | Instruction Book |
| Glenn Davis Stone | A&S | Brave New Crops: Ecology and Politics of Crop Genetic Modification. Crop biotechnology, and especially genetic modification (GM), has attracted such widespread debate and controversy is that it lies at the intersection of a remarkable range of issues in fields as diverse as biology, cultural anthropology, economics, philosophy, intellectual property law, and international relations. I propose to develop a new course that will employ a "panel of experts" who consult with in developing the curriculum, give guest lectures, and answer student questions on a discussion webpage. | New Course Development |
| L. Lewis Wall
E. E. Kwawukume Kwabena Danso |
Medicine A&S |
There is a broader diversity of ethical problems in obstetrics and gynecology than in any other field of medicine. Obstetrician-gynecologists face all of the issues of death and dying, informed consent, and resource allocation, but the peculiar nature of its subject matter - human sexuality and reproductive health - involves problems of human cloning, prenatal genetic diagnosis, abortion, assisted reproduction, neonatal care, sexually transmitted diseases, gender equality, etc. People from different cultures often approach ethical problems with different assumptions as starting-points from which to analyze these issues, and also that many of the ethical dilemmas that individuals face in their lives are "embedded" in a particular social or cultural context. The purpose of this grant is to develop an innovative cross-cultural pilot program on professional development and medical ethics in an African setting, to bring these lessons back to the WU School of Medicine, and expand our understanding of medical issues in our setting. | Research Study |
| Philip Ludbrook | Medicine A&S |
The Washington University School of Medicine's Human Studies would like to offer a Research Ethics Forum. This would be a quarterly offering, open to the WU research community that provides an arena for researchers to discuss ethical questions that arise in their various areas. Questions, for example, might include: Is it ethical to ask participants if their specimens/data can be held for future unspecified research? Who should be allowed to contact a third party research participant? As the "Forum" develops we anticipate that participants will bring their own topics for discussion. | Workshop Series |
