November 3, 2011 

C:B Core Faculty member Arlene Davis inaugurates Hospital Ethics Committee's "Consult Learning Lab" series.  

November 2-4, 2011 

C:B Visiting Scholar Doug Diekema M.D., M.P.H.,  presents joint Pediatrics/Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds,  "When parents and providers disagree."  Info here.

October 28, 2011

C:B Core Faculty member Rebecca Walker and Nancy King (Wake Forest University) publish analysis of "Biodefense Research and the U.S. Regulatory Structure: Whither Nonhuman Primate Moral Standing?"  Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 21:3 (2011)277-310.

October 19-20, 2011

C:B Visting Scholar Jill Fisher, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, inaugurates 2011-2012  NC Triangle/Triad Bioethics Dinner Seminar series, and presents  Research Ethics Grand Rounds, "Recruiting Patients for Pharma: Private-Sector Physicians and Contract Research”. Info here. 

October 13-21, 2011

C:B Core Faculty member Stuart Rennie helps lead first module of ARESA Course in South Africa. For more info, click here.

October 1, 2011

C:B Core Faculty member Anne Lyerly and colleagues publish empirical study of "Obstetrician-Gynecologists' Objections to and Willingness to Help Patients Obtain an Abortion" Obstetrics and Gynecology 118;4 (October, 2011)? 905-912. For more info, click here.

September 26, 2011

C:B Core Faculty member Anne Lyerly appointed to National Ethics Committee of the March of Dimes. Congratulations, Annie!

September 15, 2011

UNC Center for Bioethics opens tenure track Assistant Professor search!!   The C:B and the UNC Department of Social Medicine are seeking applicants for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in bioethics,  to begin in July, 2012. For more information, see: Position Details.

September 9, 2011 

Nancy M P King, JD,  inaugurates the 2011-2012 C:B Visitor's Program,  by delivering the first Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds lecture entitled, Why Don’t We Agree About End of Life Decisions? And  What Can We Do About It? 

September 6, 2011 

Welcome to Barry Shuster, JD, who is serving as the 2011-2012 Intern with  the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee, and to Mariah Justice and Kelcy McKinley, who are the Student Volunteers with the UNC HEC for the Fall Semester.   

September 1,  2011

New Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds Series inaugurated!  The UNC Hospital Ethics Committee, in partnership with  the UNC Center for Bioethics, has inaugurated a new hospital-based seminar series focused on addressing critical issues in clinical ethics. All are welcome. C:B Core Faculty members Arlene Davis and Rebecca Walker direct the series. For more info:  Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds Series.

August 15, 2011

C:B “Special Expert on Neonatal Ethics” is born: William McAllister Lyerly, 9 lbs. 12 ounces. Congratulations Annie & Kim!

July 4-8, 2011

C:B Director serves as faculty for Hastings Center/Brocher Foundation Summer Academy in Hermance, Switzerland; a week long intensive course examining ethical issues in the enhancement uses of biomedical technologies. For more information, including presentation slides, see http://www.brocher.ch/pages/programme.asp.

July 1, 2011 

 C:B Director to direct Research Ethics Core of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute.   More…

June 23, 2011

C:B Clinical Ethics Outreach Coordinator,  Deb Love, JD, MA,  inaugurates planning for state-wide health care ethics network. More…

 June 15, 2011

C:B Faculty Associate Benjamin Meier  helps create the Annual UNC Health and Human Rights Lecture Series under C:B auspices.

June 1, 2011   

C:B Core Faculty Member Stuart Rennie and colleagues at Stellenbosch University in Capetown, South Africa, awarded NIH Fogarty Center research ethics training grant.   More…

May 1, 2011

C:B Core Faculty Member  Rebecca Walker Awarded Promotion and Tenure in UNC School of Medicine. 

April 12-14, 2011

 C:B co-sponsors 2011 NHGRI ELSI Congress.  More…

April 11, 2011:   

C:B hosts American Bioethics Program Directors spring meeting.   The Spring 2011 meeting of the ABPD was hosted by the UNC Center for Bioethics at the Siena. Hotel in Chapel Hill, NC.    For more information: http://www.bioethicsdirectors.org/.

April 4-5, 2011. 

 C:B coordinates 2011 UNC Merrimon Lectures by Diane Meier, MD.  More…

March 18-20, 2011.

C:B co-sponsors ASBH National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference.  More

March 17, 2011.

 C:B primary faculty member Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD,  appointed to  the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Review.  

February 21, 2011    

C:B Open House!  The UNC Center for Bioethics officially opened its suite of offices on February 21 with a reception and ribbon-cutting on site at 333 MacNider Hall.  Fireworks were provided by screen-saver.  

January 21, 2011  

C:B hosts NC Bioethics Jamboree. The UNC Center for Bioethics sponsored a one day networking retreat for North Carolina Bioethics Programs at the Oak Ridge Inn in Oak Ridge, NC on Jan. 21, 2011.  Participants included faculty and staff from bioethics programs at East Carolina University,  Duke University,  Wake Forest University,  North Carolina Central University,  UNC-Chapel Hill,  UNC-Charlotte,  Davidson College and Wyngate University.