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2007 in ReviewPrivacy in Public The Poynter Center, with support from the Office of the Vice-Provost for Research, hosted a series of four half-day workshops on the topic of Privacy and Technology. Deborah Johnson of the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Helen Nissenbaum of New York University spoke in 2006. Deirdre Mulligan, University of California Berkeley Law School, spoke February 1, 2007, on the topic, “In Defense of Public Places,” with a response from Fred Cate from the IU School of Law. Richard DeGeorge, from the University of Kansas, spoke October 11, on “Privacy, Public Spaces and Non-Governmental Surveillance.” Peter Finn from the Department of Brain and Psychological Sciences responded. For more information, see Privacy and Technology EthicsShare In 2007 we worked with the University of Minnesota, University of Virginia, and IU Center on Bioethics in Indianapolis to create a sustainable online environment for the practical ethics community. The initial grant proposal was for a six month planning grant, focusing on digital resources in bioethics. The Poynter Center’s piece was to work on religion and bioethics. We focused on two sets of resources: (1) materials from religious communities that address bioethical controversies and (2) historical materials that identify foundational theological and religious sources that give rise to bioethical reflection, research, and public policy. Additional funding and work is anticipated in 2008. This project is an outgrowth of a 2004 workshop at UVA with the Council on Library and Information Resources. Poynter Center Interdisciplinary Fellows We completed our fourth year of the Interdisciplinary Fellows Program. The fellowship program aims to stimulate interdisciplinary inquiry into political and practical affairs by bringing together faculty from a variety of departments and schools on campus. The topic for 2006-07 was “Memory: Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics.” The fellows included:
Support came from the IU School of Law and the Poynter Center. The seminar examined ethical issues that surround commemorative activities, trauma and memory, and the relationship between collective memory, patriotism, and nationalism. Professors Danny James in the Department of History and Edward Linenthal, from the Department of History and editor of The Journal of American History, spoke with the group in the spring. Professor Linenthal moderated the fall colloquium on September 28 in which the group presented their research results. Teaching Research Ethics Kenneth D. Pimple, Director of Teaching Research Ethics Programs, directs the annual Teaching Research Ethics Workshop (TRE), with Glenda Murray serving as coordinator. The workshop is supported by university sponsors and registration fees. The fourteenth annual program was May 15-18 at the Indiana Memorial Union, with 45 participants (the maximum we accept) from 27 institutions in 17 states and Canada. See TRE for further information. Lectures and Seminars Matthew Vandivier Sims Lecture When Matthew Vandivier Sims died in infancy, his family and their friends created a fund to open a discussion of issues in responsible communication among patients, families, professional care givers, and counselors or on issues in medical ethics and research. The Poynter Center coordinates the guest lecture each year for the Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture. Rebecca Dresser from Washington University in St. Louis was the 2007 Sims lecturer, lecturing on “Terry Schiavo and Contemporary Myths about Dying.” The lecture was audio-streamed by IU and is available at our web site, 2007 Lecture. Professor Dresser and Damon Sims also met with students from the Hutton Honors College and Wells Scholars Program. More information about the Sims Lecture is at Sims Lecture. Health Care Ethics Seminars The Health Care Ethics Seminars provide interaction between the campus and the community. Byron Bangert, Research Associate, coordinated the series in spring 2007. Robert Crouch, Research Assistant, coordinated the fall series. Other Events Ethics Bowl The Indiana University Poynter Center Ethics Bowl Team competed in the Midwest Regional in fall 2006 and in the Thirteenth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Feb. 22, 2007 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The competition is held each year in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. The day-long competition is held as a method of involving students in viewing difficult situations from a variety of ethical perspectives. In 2006-07 the national competition instituted a regional system. We selected the Ethics Bowl team in the fall so they could compete November 11 in Indianapolis. They did well in the regional and represented IU in Cincinnati February 22. The team was:
In fall 2007 the IU Ethics Bowl team replaced outgoing members AbuGharbeih, Crouch, and Funk with sophomore Andrew Hahn and seniors Megan Robb and Sam Ross. That team, coached by Robert Crouch, won the regional competition in November and competed in the national competition in February 2008. For more information, see Ethics Bowl for more information. Undergraduate Research Stipend Program In 2006 the Poynter Center launched a program to offer up to $200 in research stipend to undergraduates who were addressing theoretical and applied ethics in coursework. We had three recipients in 2007, each of whom presented her findings at the Poynter Center in the spring of 2007. One, Indira Dammu, submitted her revised paper to the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics to present in February 2008. In the fall, we received awarded stipends to five students:
The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics The Poynter Center and the Association continued their close association. The sixteenth annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics was held in Cincinnati, Ohio February 21-25, 2007. In the summer of 2006 Brian Schrag organized a small workshop to focus on ethical issues in higher education administration. The aim was engage trained ethicists who had experienced administration first hand to begin to identify the ethical issues facing academic administrators and to develop the scholarship to address those issues. APPE hosted another panel at the 2007 Annual Meeting and submitted a manuscript to publish a book of collected essays on the topic. See APPE for more information about the Association. For what's happening in 2008, see Announcements and Public Events 2008. 
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