Gretchel Hathaway Tyson, director of Affirmative Action and Community Outreach, was invited to present at Sage College’s Diversity Leadership Conference in Albany earlier this month. Her lecture was titled "Teachable Moments: Responding to Uncomfortable Situations."
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal devoted its March issue to a paper by Robert Baker, the William D. Williams Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Rapaport Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative, and Laurence McCullough of the Baylor College of Medicine. The paper, "Medical Ethics’ Appropriation of Moral Philosophy: The Case of the Sympathetic and Unsympathetic Physician," uses historical examples to challenge the conventional representation of the relationship between philosophy and medical ethics.
In addition, Baker recently became the director of the Union Graduate College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program when the Mount Sinai Board of Trustees approved an agreement to offer a graduate program in bioethics with Union Graduate College.
In March, one of Baker’s students, Katherine Matho ’07, presented a paper, "International Bioethics and Physician Force-Feeding of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay" at the 10th Annual National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Michigan State University.
Brenda Wineapple, the Doris Zemurray Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, has published an essay, "The Politics of Politics; or, How the Atomic Bomb Didn’t Interest Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson," in the South Central Review. The essay is based on the invited talk Professor Wineapple delivered at Yale University’s Biography Conference in fall 2005.