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Ethics Center welcomes new staff members

The Ethics Center is proud to welcome two outstanding women to our professional staff. Stacia Brown joined the Ethics Center team this summer as manager of special events and the Ethics Library and Resource Center. Brown earned her B.A., summa cum laude, in Religion from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California in 1994. In May 1998, she was awarded a Master's of Divinity degree (summa cum laude) and a Certificate in Women's Studies from Emory.

[ Posted by Donna Price on September 02, 1998 | Article Link | More General Center for Ethics News articles | Comments (0) ]

Gift launches Ethics and Servant Leadership Program

Funded through a generous gift from William Bradley Turner of Columbus, Georgia, the Center for Ethics is inaugurating a vital new initiative this fall, the D. Abbott Turner Ethics and Servant Leadership (ESL) program. Linking volunteer service and service learning with academic studies in ethics and leadership, the program will bring lecturers and mentors to Emory who embody servant leadership at its best.

[ Posted by James Fowler on September 01, 1998 | Article Link | More Ethics and Servant Leadership articles | Comments (6) ]

Message from the Director: what it's all about

In the issue that follows you receive your invitations to meet people and experience encounters and exchanges that may enrich and challenge - and even change you. This year's schedule of lectures, conversations, workshops, and conferences represent the public offerings of the Center for Ethics of Emory University.

You will meet David Whyte, British poet and advocate for bringin heart - courage, conscience, compassion - to leadership in our large corporate organizations. Tom Insel, working scientist and chief administrator of the Yerkes Primate Center, will engage you with his research on mating patterns of mammals and share what his research may tell us about human mating patterns and monogamy.

[ Posted by James Fowler on September 01, 1998 | Article Link | More Opinion articles | Comments (0) ]

Dr. Thomas R. Insel Shares Research Findings on Mammals & Monogamy at Herndon Lecture

"Are we by nature monogamous?" That question was one addressed in the J. Emmett Herndon lecture given by Thomas R. Insel, M.D., director of Yerkes Primate Research Center, to a packed Winship Ballroom audience on 27 October. And the answer? Well, yes and no.

[ Posted by Donna Price on September 01, 1998 | Article Link | More Public Events articles | Comments (1) ]