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UCF has launched a new Center for Ethics, the culmination of several years of work by dedicated faculty in the College of Arts and Humanities with the support of the Office of Research.<\/p>\n
\u201cEthics is not simply compliance,\u201d says Jonathan Beever, the center\u2019s founder and director. \u201cEthics is a way of thinking that engages us with important questions about the values that connect and divide us. Our center aspires to create the kind of environment that will welcome that kind of scholarly approach to ethics and which will facilitate exploring emerging ethical questions across fields.\u201d<\/p>\n
To help get the UCF community in this frame of mind, the center hosted a fireside chat with Lisa Lee, a nationally recognized expert on bioethics and ethics education.<\/p>\n
The free event on Wednesday, Sept. 25, drew more than 110 attendees.<\/p>\n
Lee served as executive director of the Presidential Bioethics Commission during the Obama administration. After working with the White House, she returned to university life and is now the associate vice president of research and innovation, scholarly integrity and research compliance at Virginia Tech. She will talk about the state of ethics in the academic and research world and what the future may hold as technologies advance.<\/p>\n
Lee shared thoughts on the state of ethics in academia and research and what kinds of questions institutions and individuals in scholarly pursuits should be asking. She and the founders of the center also answered questions from the audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing ethical is not about checking some training box, but about giving us time and tools to directly address these questions,\u201d Beever said. \u201cThat\u2019s the vision we have here.\u201d<\/p>\n
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