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Talk on stem cell research set Nov. 14 2:56 p.m., Nov. 10, 2005--A lecture on embryonic stem cell research by Robert P. George, an internationally renowned scholar and lecturer, is set for 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 14, in 115 Purnell Hall. Cosponsored by UD’s Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Delaware Interdisciplinary Ethics Program, the departments of philosophy and political science and the student organizations Student Pro-life Vanguard and Catholic Scholars of Delaware, the lecture, “Humane Alternatives to Destructive Embryonic Research,” will focus on the role ethics plays in science and medicine. George, who directs the James Madison Institute, a Florida-based public policy research organization, and who is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, also serves on President George W. Bush’s Council of Bioethics. He is the author of the books, In Defense of Natural Law; Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality; and The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis and is the recipient of many honors and awards, including the 2005 Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement and the Stanley Kelley Jr. Teaching Award from Princeton University’s Department of Politics. This lecture, which is free and open to the public, is the second in a series of three talks focusing on human embryonic stem cell research. The third and final lecture of the series is set for 7 p.m, Thursday, Dec. 1, in 115 Purnell Hall, and will feature the Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a neuroscientist. For more information, call (302) 831-8480. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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