Community Outreach

Friends of the Center
To encourage closer ties between UCI and the local community, the Center has established The Friends of the Center and an Intern Program with local high school students.

The Center reaches out to the local community by drawing together UCI faculty and community members interested in discussing ethical issues.  The Friends of the Center is dedicated to furthering this goal.

Co-Chairs
Frank Lynch
Bettye Vaughen

Interns 
As a pilot project, the Center has selected a few promising students from nearby high schools offering them the opportunity to work with a university faculty member on a project designed to both increase the students’ sensitivity to ethical issues and allow them to become engaged in scholarly research.

Fellows
The Center welcomes visiting scholars whose work examines ethical issues in a scientific manner.

2005 Fellow: Toa Norlen, a Fellow at the Center during the 2004-5 academic year, is spending the 2005 summer term at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna Austria. The Center is pleased to announce that Norlen, a Swedish PhD candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, was recognized for her work in the project on Processes of International Negotiations. Norlen's report is entitled "Sacred Stones and Religious Nuts: Negotiating Ethnic Disputes over Absolute Space". Her award comes from the IIASA’s Young Scientists Summer Program, Science for Global Insight.