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The planet Mars

The planet Mars

Acting Ethically on the Red Planet

Should humans attempt to colonize Mars? Margaret Race, Brian Green, and Margaret R. McLean led a discussion of the ethical implications of such a venture during an Ethics at Noon event on February 17, 2016. 

Feb 19, 2016
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All About Ethics

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    I Was the Son of a Librarian
    A Legacy of Protecting Freedom of Information

    Standing up for freedom of information when efforts to censor the internet parallel efforts to censor libraries.

  • Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. AP_Markus Schreiber
    Rebuilding Global Trust: A Pathway to Secure the Common Good

    Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a master class in principled leadership at the 2026 World Economic Forum, commonly referred to as Davos, delivering a set of comments that evaluated the global circumstances he and other leaders are facing in a clear-eyed, forward-looking manner.

  • Panel on Human Dignity Framing at Digital Dignity Day held at SCU on May 2, 2025. Subbu Vincent (far left), director of Journalism and Media Ethics was the moderator. Panelists (left to rightJane Pak, Co-ED of Refugee & Immigrant Transitions, Greg Eskridge, Leadership Fellow from Uncuffed podcast, and Irina Raicu, director of Internet Ethics at Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
    Dignity and Reporting Across Fault Lines

    When might a newsroom not “report” the stories of people and instead let them have the microphone? One answer to this came from Greg Eskridge of KALW’s award-winning podcast Uncuffed.