Updates & Activities - Fall/Winter 2010

Paige Cunningham, JD

• Represented CBHD at a variety of meetings in the Fall and early Winter including: a panel on synthetic biology at C-PET in August and the professional society meetings of ASBH in October and ETS in November.
• Delivered a lecture in November for the Science Seminar Lecture Series at Taylor University on "Human Animal Hybrids: What Are They and Should We Care?"
• Interviewed by Moody Radio in October on her audio series Everyday Bioethics.

Kirsten Riggan, MA

• Interviewed by Isthmus Journal in October on stem cell research.

Michael Sleasman, PhD

• Delivered a lecture in September for the Science Seminar Lecture Series at Taylor University on “Thinking through Technology.”

• Delivered two lectures in September at Lincoln Christian University. The first was a guest lecture on “Virtual Paradise?” to bioethics students. The second was a public lecture, entitled “Bioengagement: Stem Cells beyond the Hype.”

• Interviewed by Focus on the Family in August on California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s stem cell curriculum.

• Interviewed by Northwestern Media Radio in July on human enhancement and the Center’s conference Beyond Therapy.

Education

CBHD hosted a special lecture by Janne Nikkinen, DTh, on September 7th, entitled “Rationing without Reason? Evaluating the Need for Healthcare Rationing.” The lecture was held on the Deerfield campus of Trinity International University

Partnership

In November CBHD sponsored two lectures for the bioethics consultation group at the annual Evangelical Theological Society meetings in Atlanta. The lectures were: “Biotechnologies and Human Nature: What We Should Not Change in Who We are” by Dennis Hollinger, PhD, and “Recent Challenges to Fetal Personhood: A Critical Analysis” by Francis Beckwith, PhD. CBHD has agreed to sponsor two additional lectures for the 2011 ETS meeting in San Francisco.