In addition to numerous events organized in response to current ethics and public policy issues, the Center hosts a series of regular events:Monthly Ethics Forum
This open, public forum is held the first Wednesday of the months of September, October, November, February, March, and April at 7 p.m.
Some forums are part of the Great Thinkers Lecture Series: Ideas that Have Changed Our World, which explores the ideas of thinkers that have fundamentally changed the way people perceive the world. Since even the most educated of us have only a vague understanding of landmark developments in our cultural and intellectual tradition, we invite to campus several times each semester experts to lead discussion on great thinkers and their ideas.
Other forums focus on specific public policy issues.
Annual Ethics Awareness Week
Generally held the third week of September, Ethics Awareness Week explores the moral dimensions of numerous disciplines and topics through a series of panel discussions as well as the Annual Conference by the Faculty. The Excellence in Ethics Award is usually presented during Ethics Awareness Week.
Excellence in Ethics Award
The Excellence in Ethics award is presented annually by the Board of Directors of the Center for the Study of Ethics to individuals who display exemplary commitment to ethics. Such commitment involves understanding the human condition and working professionally and personally to improve ethics through professional leadership, community activity, and personal insight. This individual is active in enhancing ethics through writing, speaking, planning, and accomplishing activities that upgrade the ethical and moral fiber of the community locally and globally.
1994: Michael Zimmerman
Chief Justice, Utah Supreme Court
1995: Irene Fisher
Manager, Jawoyn Association, Australia
1996: Delmont Oswald
Director, Utah Humanities Council
1997: Jay Jacobson, M.D.
Chief, Division of Medical Ethics, LDS Hospital and the University of Utah School of Medicine
1998: Karen Ashton
Philanthropist
1999: Omar Kader
President, Pal-Tech Inc.
2000 (awarded May 2001):
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
2001: Pamela Atkinson
Founder, Pamela Atkinson Homeless Trust Account; Chair, Fourth Street Clinic
2002: Bill Pope
Philanthropist
2003: Jon Huntsman, Senior
Philanthropist
2004 (awarded March 2005): Michael K. Young
President, University of Utah
Annual Ethics and Public Policy Symposium
During the first week of November, a symposium is convened to explore the ethical dimensions of a timely and relevant public policy issue, including but not limited to business ethics, medical ethics, and other topics.
Annual Ethics Across the Curriculum Summer Seminar
The second week of May, faculty from across campus get together for 15 hours over a 5 day period to study an interdisciplinary ethics topic with a renowned visiting scholar.
Annual Conference by the Faculty
On the third Thursday of January, an interdisciplinary topic is chosen to provide the forum for UVSC faculty to present papers and lead discussion. Generally the topic follows the previous year's Ethics Across the Curriculum Summer Seminar. A Proceedings is published of the conference.
Annual Environmental Ethics Conference
Held the first Thursday of April to honor John Muir's birthday for almost two decades, a conference is convened in order to explore the complex ecological human relationship with non-human nature.
