Join us for the second event in our Epigenetics series!
For a pdf of the flyer, click here. For a series flyer, click here.
The Ethics Center is enormously pleased to be a part of a recently awarded $1 million NSF grant to build a "Federal Advanced Data and Statistics Hub" (F-DASH)!
Scientific research increasingly points to the importance of “epigenetics” – factors that alter gene activity without changing the underlying sequence – to health. Epigenetic modifications can change when and how a gene expresses itself, for example, and can lead to increased risks of conditions ranging from metabolic syndrome to lupus to various cancers. Some of these effects appear to be reversible, but a body of research strongly suggests that early-life or even in utero exposure to some environmental factors can affect someone’s health for the rest of their lives, by changing...
Please join us for the annual Ethics Center Breakfast on Wed. Sept. 11, 7:30-9:00, Cone 112!
We'll have our annual opportunity to reconnect with one another, as well as announcements and discussion about Center programming for the upcoming year. We're very excited about some of what we've been able to line up, including an in-depth series on the emerging discipline of epigenetics, which studies how gene expression can be influenced by environmental and other factors, as well as programming in data science and other initiatives. As a Center supporter, your participation...
People that are socially dead are people that are denied the right to have rights; they are denied personhood and can be violated with little repercussions. Social death is produced through processes of social valuing, of considering some life more valuable than other, and the criminal legal system is essential to these valuing processes. In her presentation, Dr. Martha Escobar draws from the framework of social death and highlights some of the ways that Latinx (im)migrant lifers’ status of living dead shapes their experiences trying to obtain parole. This is part of a larger research...
Registration for the Annual Ethics and Social Work Conference is now open! The Conference theme is "Ethics of Trauma and Resilience in Integrated Behavioral Healthcare." Social work professionals participating in the conference will receive 4.5 continuing ethics-education credits sufficient to meet annual NASW requirements.
All conference events will be held at UNC Charlotte Center City Campus (320 E. 9th St.). Registration ($50; see below) includes parking, along with breakfast (networking session with professionals and...
