Skip to main content
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Homepage

Center News

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.

Recent Center News

  • Hackworth Research Grants in Applied Ethics from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
  • World Philosophy Day

    Alumni from Ethics Center Hackworth Fellowship and Ethics Bowl programs returned to SCU as featured panelists at World Philosophy Day hosted by the Philosophy Department in the SCU College of Arts and Sciences.

  • Flyers fanned out on a table. Framework for Ethical Decision Making Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

    A series of two-session workshops offered by the Ethics Center are helping SCU students and staff to identify ethical issues and the decisions that accompany them.

  • Aerial view of Pajaro Levee 2023 after flooding. Photo by CA Department of Water Resources.

    Article published by the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences highlights the Ethics Center's collaboration regarding the experience of vulnerable communities in the context of climate adaptation with principles of environmental justice.

  • 2025-26 SCU Ethics Bowl Team: Shelly Cormier, Darcy Muller, Tiffany Nguyen, Joshua Nesdahl, and Jenna Roseto, and Ethics Bowl Coach and SCU PhilosophyTeaching Professor Erin Bradfield. The team competed at the CA Regional Ethics Bowl on Dec. 6, 2025 at Grossmont College in El Cajon, CA. Photo courtesy of Erin Bradfield.

    The SCU 2025-26 Ethics Bowl Squad Wins Two of Three Matches at the Dec. 6 California Regional Ethics Bowl.

  • AI in Health Care: Promise and Peril for Patients and Society. Event held Oct 10. 2025 at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Photo of Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, director, bioethics.

    Summary of October 10 event with Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, director, bioethcs.

  • A display of different types of VR Goggles.

    Ethics Center's Hackworth Research Grants supports the development of three educational resources supporting a guide for human subjects protections in immersive technology research.

  • Immigration Stamp on grey background.

    The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics presents its latest Ethics Spotlight––a collection of essays authored by SCU faculty, scholars, and ethicists––on the ethics of immigration enforcement.

More pages:
    RSS
    Join Our Mailing Lists