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
Expressing gratitude for Don Heider's eight-years of leadership as the Center's executive director and announcing Ann Skeet as interim executive director.
The Markkula Center argues that prediction markets fail ethical and policy standards because making bets on active wildfires undermines public safety, creates insider trading concerns, and reduces community wellbeing to mere financial speculation.
A warm send off to the Ethics Center Class of 2026 and awarding this year's Markkula Prize for outstanding commitment to ethics.
The report suggests ways to make the planning and deployment of data centers in the state both more sustainable and more equitable.
2025-26 Hackworth Fellow Annie Schloss ’27, and Rebecca An ’27, a 2025-26 Health Care Ethics Intern, Earn National Research Awards
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.
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.
