• BME 80G Seminar: Sara Ackerman – Doing Ethics From The Inside: Collaboration, Critique, and Contradiction in Team Science

    Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Sara Ackerman, Medical Anthropologist and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco Description: Team science has been widely promoted as a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to addressing key scientific questions, yet power differences and epistemic hierarchies persist. This talk explores "embedded ethics"—a model in which social scientists and ethicists work directly […]

  • BME 80G Seminar: To Infinity and Beyond? Ethical, legal, and social issues of human research in space”

    Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Vaso Rahimzadeh, Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine Description: As humans venture farther into outer space, new scientific discovery awaits including in genomics; but so do new ethical dilemmas.  Who bears the risks (and rewards) of space exploration and how should humanity ethically expand beyond our planet? This session will have students think critically […]

  • 19th Conference on Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2025)

    Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CA

    The NeSy series is the longest standing gathering for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in neurosymbolic AI. NeSy is the annual meeting of the Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning Association, which has organised NeSy since 2005, back then as a workshop.