An initiative at Duke University that supports the study and teaching of ethics and promotes moral reflection and commitment in personal, professional, community, and civic life. The site lists grants and Awards for fellows and a number of other groups interested in researching ethics.

The Center encourages teaching and research about ethical issues in public and professional life. One of its aims is to help meet the growing need for teachers and scholars who address questions of moral choice in such areas as business, government, law, medicine, public policy, and social science.
This link is to the fellowship applications for the Center.

A program of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy ( http://shorensteincenter.org/ ) at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the Goldsmith Awards Program has as its goal the encouragement of a more insightful, spirited public debate about government, politics, and the press. The program is currently accepting entries for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Goldsmith Book Prizes.

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting: This annual award of $25,000 honors the journalist or journalists whose investigative reporting on a story or series of related stories best promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy, and/or the practice of politics. Five finalist entries will be awarded $2,000 each. While the subject can address issues of foreign policy, a submission qualifies only if it has an impact on public policy in the United States at the national, regional, or local level. Submissions will be accepted only from U.S. news media, and publication must have occurred within the twelve months preceding the submission deadline (January 1 to December 31, 2004).

Goldsmith Book Prizes: The book award consists of two categories: 1) Academic and 2) Trade. A $2,500 prize will be awarded to a book in each category. Books will be judged by how well they fulfill the objective of improving government through an examination of the intersection among the press, politics, and public policy. Publication must have occurred within the twenty-four months preceding the submission deadline. All submissions must be in English.
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Additional RFPs in Journalism

The International Bioethics Education and Career Development Award, published on August 5, 2003 has an application deadline of December 16, 2003. The NIH is seeking applications to develop or expand current graduate level curricula and training opportunities in international bioethics related to performing research involving human subjects in low- and middle-income nations. Since current programs provide training for participants from the Asian, African and Latin American regions (for descriptions of current programs, see the bulletin), new applications focusing on countries of the Middle East, North, East and West Africa, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are encouraged. Applicant institutions can request up to four years of support to create comprehensive curriculum development and training programs. Developing country institutions can request up to two years of support for program planning and curriculum development in preparation to apply for comprehensive training program support in the future.
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The Section on Ethics of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) invites nominations for the Best Student Paper on public administration ethics. The Section encourages graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in an academic course of study in calendar year 2002 to submit entries. (NOTE: Papers that students have co-authored with a faculty member are ineligible.) The student whose paper is selected will receive a framed certificate, a cash award of $150, and publication of an executive summary in the Section's newsletter, Ethics Today; the full paper will be available through the Section's website.

The deadline for faculty to nominate student papers is January 4, 2003. The paper should be no longer than 25 pages (doubled spaced, with 12-font type). The ASPA Section on Ethics will present this award during the ASPA national conference in Washington, D.C., March 15-18, 2003. Please email papers along with the faculty letter supporting the nomination to Mylon Winn - Chair, Best Student Paper Award Nomination Committee at mxwinn@ualr.edu.
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This prestigious award is being offered by the ASPA Section on Ethics to recognize exemplary performance in the workplace by individuals who have demonstrated exemplary ethical behavior in the workplace. The award will be presented at the ASPA National Conference in 2003. Application deadline: January 25,2003.

Nominations may come from any of the public service, governmental, non-profit or academic sectors. The criteria for nomination both reflect and relate to the core values embodied in the ASPA Code of Ethics. The focus should be on notable achievements related to the workplace where broad recognition is worthy and appropriate.
Submit a Nomination to the Awards Committee chair, Russ Carlsen