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Graduate Seminar: Skillful Ethical Reasoning

A new, mini-course created in connection with the Kavli Center and offered through the School of Public Health will give students the skills to identify and analyze ethical challenges in innovation (with an emphasis on public health topics). This course is case-based yet takes an unusually systematic approach. Each week introduces one of four major ethical theories relevant to public health, showing how the theories relate to each other. Students will learn how to identify the core ethical issues at stake in real examples and which theoretical approach to take for which types of challenges...

Fellowships

About the Fellows Program

Discoveries in science and technology are moving quickly from basic research to real-world applications, sometimes with societal-scale impact, and scientists are increasingly encountering challenges that fall outside their expertise. We need a new kind of training that prepares scientists to confront the current and future ethical challenges of their fields, and that creates social scientists, philosophers, journalists, and policymakers who are able to work with scientists and diverse communities to ensure that the applications of scientific...

Visiting Scholars and Students

The UC Berkeley Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public invites applications for visiting appointments from national and international scholars and graduate students in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and professional fields who are interested in exploring ethical challenges, advancing solutions, or identifying ways of involving impacted communities and the public in science and technology and its governance....

Two Kavli Center Fellows collaborate to publish a journalistic piece on a unique form of public engagement with science

May 30, 2024
Kavli Center News

Two of the Kavli Center's first Ethics, Science, and the Public fellows, Arik Shams and Leana King, collaborated to research and author a piece featured this month in Undark on creative efforts to engage the public in decisions about science.

Arik and Leana, two scientists in genome editing and neuroscience respectively, took part in a pilot project...

https://undark.org/2024/05/16/opinion-science-courts-public-trust-science/

Kavli Center Weekly Colloquium

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The weekly Colloquium is part of the core programming for the Kavli Center Fellows. Each Monday, Fellows and core faculty and staff meet, alternating between formats to bring training, discussion, and in-progress support to the fellows.

Formats include:

Group Meeting: Group meetings may include topics such as brainstorming, discussions, work-related planning, etc.

Journal Club: 1-2 people select 1-3 papers, recent or foundational, to present to the group for discussion.

Work in Progress: 1-2 people present their work in progress for input from the group...

Berkeley Ethics and Regulation Group for Innovative Technologies

The Berkeley Ethics and Regulation Group for Innovative Technologies (BERGIT) is an ideas exchange and a meeting ground for discussions across disciplines to integrate ethics, regulation, and policy with science. Our goal is to provide space for discussion, facilitate insight, and instigate a proactive cultural shift in responsible innovation. BERGIT is led by an interdisciplinary team with expertise in...