With its wide array of programs, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics generates new events, features, tools, and research every day.
Center staff and scholars also regularly appear in the media, which is captured in the Media Mentions section of our website. For reporters looking for sources, we offer ethics experts, which details the expertise of our staff and faculty scholars.
Santa Clara University has named Davina Hurt as the director of the Government Ethics Program.
We bid a fond farewell to the Ethics Center's Class of 2025 and award this year's Markkula Prize for outstanding commitment to ethics.
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics welcomed back Professor Shannon Vallor, author of The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Learning, for a compelling presentation on AI and humanity, including how we can overcome our own mistakes and biases.
Santa Clara University has named Guadalupe Hayes-Mota as the director of the Bioethics Program at the University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Join us May 2 in person or via livestream for a daylong conference exploring the impact AI is having on human dignity, part of the Markkula Center’s work in the international project New Humanism in the time of Neurosciences and Artificial Intelligence (NHNAI).
The 2024-25 Environmental Ethics Fellows are focusing on the ethical dimensions of the 2023 levee failure in Pajaro, California.
During this thought-provoking event participants identified key themes including the transformative potential of AI, its risks and pitfalls, and the critical question of who sets the rules that will determine its impact on humanity.
William “Bill” O’Neill, S.J., Ph.D. joins the Ethics Center as Director of Immigration Ethics.
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