This weekend, undergraduate students and professors will put their heads together to sort through and attempt to understand the complexities of bioethics. Princeton's Bioethics Forum will host its second conference beginning today.
Over 130 students from 45 colleges and universities — including more than 50 Princeton students —will participate in the two-day conference, according to Ben Roman '01, co-chair of the conference.
"We want our participants to leave the conference with an understanding of the ethical issues in reproductive technology, and we want to give them the vocabulary to be able to talk about these issues on their own," he said.
This year's conference will focus on the ethical issues of new reproductive technologies. President Shapiro will present the opening address.
Throughout the weekend, many notable speakers will be lecturing and participating in panel discussions and precept sessions — including bioethics professor Peter Singer, molecular biology professor Dan Notterman, recently named director of the University genomics institute Shirley Tilghman, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Arthur Caplan, and National Bioethics Advisory Commission consultant and University of Virginia professor James Childress.
Conference participant Kelly Collins, a pre-med/immunology junior at the University of Wisconsin, said she was looking forward to hearing from the many speakers.
"There are a lot of different perspectives on issues," she said.
The topics to be discussed — all of which relate to reproductive technology — range from stem cell research to "designing babies," Roman said.
At the forum's 1999 conference, participants discussed a variety of bioethics issues such as organ donation and AIDS care. Roman said the narrow topic this year will allow the participants to discuss the issue in-depth.
The five lectures and panel discussions are open to the public; however, the small precept sessions are for registered conference participants only.
The "breakout" sessions will include about 15 students and several distinguished speakers. Each participant will be able to attend four.
The sessions were designed to create a one-on-one feeling, said Valerie Gutmann '01, co-president of the Bioethics Forum.
Following the final panel discussion tomorrow night, registered applicants are invited to attend a banquet at the Nassau Inn.
The Bioethics Forum also publishes a bi-annual undergraduate journal of bioethics and coordinates a Bioethics in the Community program.
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