Saturday, November 20th, 2010, from 9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Princeton University. Free of Charge. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are included.

Fusion and Princeton's Undergraduate Bioethics Forum are holding an Undergraduate Bioethics Conference and are excited about having an engaging discussion on bioethical issues with Princeton students and those from other universities. We have invited selected students to present their papers at the conference and have their papers published in our journal. We will also listen to faculty addresses on the ethics of abortion (Professor Elizabeth Harman), neuropsychology (Professor Charles Gross), and containment strategies for third world diseases (Professor Adel Mahmoud). All students that are interested in engaging in this discussion are more than welcome to attend. There will be ample question and answer time for both students and faculty and opportunities to network with those similarly passionate about bioethics.

The Princeton Journal of Bioethics is available for download.

The conference schedule is as follows:

• 9:30- 9:45 am- check in, breakfast refreshments
• 9:45 am- 10:00 am- introductory remarks, Emma Yates ’11 and Michael Skiles ’12 (Princeton)
• 10:00- 10:50 am- Professor Adel Mahmoud- How to Control Global Infections in the 21st Century
• 11:00- 11:30 am- Aaron Henson ’11 (NYU)- Compensatory Environmental Policy and Rights of Future Persons: A Response to Shue’s “Bequeathing Hazards”
• 11:30- 12:00 pm- Mark Varvaris ’11 (UVA)- Better Brains for Some: An Ethical Analysis of Access to Neurological Medication
• 12:00- 1:00 pm- Professor Charles Gross- Ethical Problems Raised by Modern Neuroscience
• 1:00- 1:30 pm- luncheon (Massimo’s)
• 1:30- 2:00 pm- Olaoluwatoni Alimi ’13 (Princeton)- Emergency Contraception
• 2:00- 2:30 pm- Alexander Frawley ’12 (Georgetown)- The Moral Impermissibility of Removing Theresa Schiavo’s Feeding Tube
• 2:30- 3:00 pm- Daniel Pearlman ’11 (Georgetown)- Neuropsychiatric Masquerades: Implications for the Debate on Physician Assisted Suicide
• 3:00 -3:30 pm- David Pederson ’12 (Princeton)- Ethics without Epistemology: Virtues, Social Practices, and the Critique of Foundationalism
• 3:30- 4:30 pm- Professor Elizabeth Harman- Creation Ethics: the Moral Status of Early Fetuses and the Ethics of Abortion
• 4:30- 5:00 pm- Andrew Bristow ’12 (Princeton)- An Analysis of and Commentary on Thomson’s A Defense of Abortion
• 5:00- 5:30 pm- Michael Skiles ’12 (Princeton)- Abortion: The Unjustifiable Killing of an Equal Moral Person
• 5:30- 6:00 pm- Paul Schied ’13 (Harvard)- Taking the Next Step in Stem Cells: Small Molecule Reprogramming for Production of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
• 6:00- 6:30 pm- Emma Yates ’11 (Princeton)- Instantiations of Biological Emergence: In Search of a Biochemically Rigorous Description of the Blastocyst Stage Human Embryo
• 6:30- 7:00 pm- dinner (Ivy Garden)
• 7:00 pm- 7:15 pm- closing remarks- Kyle Edwards ’12, Pinar Umman ’13, Sam Norton ’12 (Princeton)