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Awards in Bioethics:

  • Elizabeth Fenton (4th yr graduate student, philosophy) was awarded one of two postdoctoral fellowships in the Program on Ethics and Health at Harvard University.

  • Savannah Thompson-Hoffman (4th year government major/bioethics minor) has written a prize-winning abstract for a paper she will deliver at the National Dilemmas and Struggles in Transplantation Conference in Chicago in April 2008.

  • Frances McCorkle, a PPL major and history minor, was awarded First Prize for her essay "Liberal Answers to Callahan's Communitarianism" in the 2007 national undergraduate bioethics essay competition, sponsored by the Penn Bioethics Journal.

  • Kaveh Ardalan publishes paper in Penn Bioethics Journal, 2005

  • Leah Rosenberg -- First prize National Undergraduate Bioethics Essay Competition, 2004

  • Shep Nickel-- Second prize, National Undergraduate Bioethics Essay Competition ,2004

  • James F. Childress -- honored in 2002 with Thomas Jefferson Award for lifetime achievement the highest honor bestowed by the University of Virginia

  • Dr. Childress honored by the American Society for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
    Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004


  • Professor John Arras,
    Director of the Biothics Program,
    Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award, 2005

  • Professor John Arras
    Commonwealth's Outstanding Faculty Award 2006
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Last Updated 2/24/2008