Updates & Activities - Spring 2012

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Paige Cunningham, JD

• Authored “Baby Barcodes: on Tracking Eggs and Embryos” for the Spring 2012 issue of Salvo magazine. The article inaugurated a new column for Salvo entitled BioHazards: dispatches on Bioethics.

• Spoke on “The Workplace and Brain Boosters” at a monthly gathering with fifty christian executives sponsored by Joe Slawek, Founder, President, and CEO of FONA international.

Michael Sleasman, PhD

• Facilitated a series of roundtable discussions on theological bioethics with students and CBHD staff throughout the fall and spring semesters. Participants discussed Oliver O’Donovan’s, Resurrection and the Moral Order and Ellen Charry’s, God and the Art of Happiness

Jennifer McVey, MDiv

• Jennifer McVey, our Event and Education Manager, spoke at First Presbyterian Church of Evanston on ethics in reproductive technologies. Jennifer shared christian perspectives and fielded numerous questions from the attentive group of women.

• Jennifer traveled to Washington dc in February and attended the American association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists Winter Educational Meeting. She also held strategic meetings with organizations for the global women’s health intiative.

Hans Madueme, MD, PhD (Cand.)

• Accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Covenant College in Georgia and will begin in the Fall.

RESEARCH LIBRARY UPDATE

CBHD completed a digital catalog of all books in our main library, as well as those acquired for the Pellegrino Special Collection. In addition to the physical organization of the holdings, the digital catalog is maintained through the bibliographic soft ware Zotero facilitating library sharing, topical search features, and citation information (including the ability to export footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies) for all Center resources.

Links to Holdings:

General Holdings (http://tinyurl.com/CBHDLibrary)

Pellegrino Special Collection (http://tinyurl.com/PellegrinoLibrary)