The Center for SEPP integrates ethics and public policy inquiry with science and engineering.
The Center for SEPP organizes activities to promote scholarship, learning, and dialogue on issues of science, technology, ethics, and policy. These include the Science Café, the RAISE research ethics seminar for graduate students, a research ethics workshop for undergraduates, the SEPP-Research Group for faculty and graduate students, and a variety of new and innovated courses.
04/28/2023
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Ethics on autopilot | UDaily The University of Delaware's Tom Powers is considering the role of ethics in the development of self-driving vehicles.
09/15/2016
UD History Department is sponsoring this great workshop with David Caruso.
History Workshop David Caruso Director, Center for Oral History, Chemical Heritage Foundation Science is as much about scientists as it is about the...
05/12/2016
Call for papers...
The UD Department of Philosophy presents:
Anne Steadman (UD '05) Ph.D./J.D., Clerk to the Honorable M. Jane Brady
Friday, March 13th
"Destructive Patents and Public Policy"
3:30 PM, Gore 315
10/15/2014
CSEPP announces new NSF-funded collaboration with the National Academy of Engineering.
International ethics Interdisciplinary team to address global issues in STEM research
UD Professors Robin Andreasen and Heather Doty kicked off our fall Science Cafe series last night with a presentation on UD-ADVANCE, an NSF-funded project to advance women faculty in the sciences and engineering. The balance of the Science Cafe schedule is:
October 16: Gerald Kauffman on “Restoration of the American Shad on the White Clay Creek"
October 29: Prasad Dhurjati on "Autism and the Gut-Brain Connection"
November 3: Pei Chiu on “Dirty Water”
Great work (as usual) from Nicole Hassoun
The Global Health Impact Project
The Global Health Impact Project is devoted to measuring pharmaceutical products’ impact on global health to advance access to essential medicines.
07/10/2014
Important victory for UD and the Newark community!
TDC decision UD terminates Data Centers project for STAR Campus
"Biofuels: Ethical and Public Policy Issues in Research, Production and Consumption" is the theme of a special session tomorrow afternoon, 5/22, as part of an international symposium focused on Brazil's agricultural, environmental, and energy challenges underway at UD's Trabant University Center multipurpose rooms. The session runs from 1:30-4:00. Paul Thompson, the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Food, Agrigultural, and Community Ethics at Michigan State University will present a special talk on the agricultural ethics of biofuels at 2:10 and take part in a panel discussion with SEPP director Tom Powers and Pedro Neto of the Federal University of Lavras, Brazil, at 3:15. Here is the complete symposium schedule:
Brazil: Global Challenges in Agriculture, Environment, and Energy Brazil: Global Challenges in Agriculture, Environment, and Energy An International Symposium May 21–22, 2014 Trabant University Center Multipurpose Rooms All talks are free and open to the public, although registration for meals is now full and closed. Download a pdf version of the program belowSymp…
04/21/2014
I'll be the moderator for a "teach-in" panel discussion on The Data Center proposal for the UD STAR Campus. This event is organized by the UD Sustainability Task force. Tickets are free, but required, from the UD ticket offices.
04/21/2014
