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Center for Ethics and Human Values awarded a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Ethics of Sustainability Development
The Ohio State University Office of Energy and Environment has just agreed to fund a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship for the Ethics of Sustainable Development out of the Ohio State…

CEHV Director Leads Discussion of Ethics of Predictive Analytics for University Innovation Alliance
On October 5 & 6, representatives of Univesity Innovation Alliance—11 universities collaborating to find ways to increase student access to, and success in, higher education—met at the Ohio…

CEHV Director, Don Hubin, to serve on a committee advising the President and Provost's Council on Sustainability
President Michael V. Drake and Provost Joseph E. Steinmetz have charged the President and Provost’s Council on Sustainability to develop strategic sustainability goals to make Ohio State a…
CEHV Affiliate Bill Gardner: "How Humans Can Keep Superintelligent Robots From Murdering Us All"
Bill Gardner, OSU Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, health services researcher, and CEHV Affiliate, addresses the question of whether we have anything to fear from superinteligent artificial…

Buckeye Book Community selection for 2015-16 related to Sustainability
The 2015 Buckeye Book Community selection is The Good Food Revolution, by Will Allen.
The Buckeye Book Community (BBC) is the only common learning experience shared by all first-year…
Politicians and citizens talking without shouting? It can happen.
The cynical view of political discourse is that, in these polarized times, members of Congress can’t really persuade their constituents. If talk does anything, leaders can only mobilize their…
Jeffrey Sachs: "What is a Moral University in the 21st Century?"
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, and last year's keynote speaker for the COMPAS Spring Conference, addresses what it means for a university to be a moral…

CEHV Announces the 2015-16 Sustainability COMPAS
The Center for Ethics and Human Values Innovation Group is please to announce that, next year, it will conduct a COMPAS program focused on sustainability. The 2015-16 Sustainability COMPAS is made…

CEHV Director Don Hubin Interviewed Concerning Prisoner Organ Donation Case
On November 13, less than a day before the scheduled execution of convicted child killer Ronald Phillips, Governor John Kasich stayed the execution to study the feasibility of allowing Phillips to…