The Dartmouth effort consists of two distinct projects organized by the school's Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics. Both the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Education have provided the funding.
A $219,777 grant from the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) is going to a three-year study to create a model interdisciplinary graduate seminar on ethics and academic research to begin next year. Areas of discussion in the class will include research methodology, professional honesty, reporting on research, whistle-blowing and loy- alty, human experimentation, and animal experimentation. Deni Elliott, director of the Ethics Institute at the Hanover, N.H., school, hopes this course will be sought after and implemented by other science departments throughout the United States.
NSF's Ethics and Value Studies Program is providing the money for the other project, which will create curriculum materials for undergraduate and ...
