The portfolio should be in a loose leaf notebook or other bound format, neatly organized, and separated by assignment.

The  portfolio cover page should have the last five digits of your social security number but not your name! 

All assignments should be typed and doubled-spaced

Keep a copy of the portfolio for your records

OPTIONAL. It is STRONGLY recommended that you supplement your portfolio with other notes, web sites, thoughts, news clippings etc you may have assembled as part of the class  assignments.  This will be a valuable resource for YOU.  I would enjoy seeing this if you wish to submit it for me to review.  The supplement should be included as a separateappendix.

• Scientific integrity (20 points) Prepare a 2-3 page essay that answers the followoing:
• What is meant by scientific integrity?  What is scientific misconduct and how is it defined? Do you  believe that the accepted definition of scientific misconduct is adequate?  Why/ why not? 
• In class we discussed academic misconduct.  What parallels exist between scientific and academic misconduct? Do you believe that academic misconduct guidelines and procedures are enforced by students?  Should they be? How important is it for individuals engaged in scientific or academic misconduct to be accountable? 
• Who is responsible for ensuring that misconduct is identified and indemnified? 
• What are he consequences for scientitfc misconduct?  who is affected?
• what advice would you give a fellow student starting research regarding the workplace and scientific conduct?

• Submit your professional code of conductand a one paragraph critique  (10 points)

• Pugwash assignment  (10 points) 
•  What is Pugwash? What issues and themes are addressed on the Pugwash home page? What is the Russell Einstein Manifesto?
•  What is Student Pugwash? the Pugwash pledge?  Would you sign the pledge? why or why not?

• Ethics sites exploration, responses for ONE website from the following five (10 points) 
• who is responsible for organizing and maintaining this website?
• who funds the website?
• what are the ethical concerns about science addressed by this site?
• summarize your overall impression of the site.  What novel information if any did you learn? 

   Science and Technology: http://www.aaas.org/spp/

   Genetics: http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/elsi/elsi.html

   Computer Ethics: http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/index.html

   Environmental Ethics: http://www.cep.unt.edu/

   Engineering  Ethics: http://www.niee.org/

• Economics: Policy and Funding (20 points) You are invited to sit on a government panel as a "citizen representing the community".  Your task is  to select and prioritize research areas for funding initiatives from the following list of fifteen.  How would you divide the fifteen  research areas into the following 3 groups? Briefly explain the rationale for your funding choices. 

GROUP A  ABSOLUTELY MUST BE FUNDED. 
Top 15 % ONLY 2 RESEARCH AREAS CAN GO HERE
GROUP B  MODERATE CHANCE FOR FUNDING. 
Next 20 % ONLY 3 RESEARCH AREAS CAN GO HERE
GROUP C  NO CHANCE FOR FUNDING. 
TEN MUST GO HERE:
 
THE RESEARCH AREAS:
1. Research in child health and development  including programs to disseminate information about child health and nutrition.
2. Genetic engineering of crop plants for increased  productivity in areas of low water availability.
3. Development of genetic tests for all the genes in the human genome.
4. Research to develop alternative sources of energy 
5. Alzheimers research
6. Breast cancer research
7. Diabetes research
8. Research on aging in women
9. Drug therapies to treat depression
10. Chemical weapons research
11. Biological weapons research
12. Conservation research to preserve habitiats and endangered species
13. Reproductive technologies to overcome infertility
14. Pain research
15. Astrobiology research to study origins of life in the universe

• Organisms  in research (30 points) 
• Animals in research  (15 points) . Visit this website dedicated to Peter Singer and donwload an article that argues against the use of animals in research. Write a 1-2 page commentary on Singer's views  as compared with the Chapter by Macrina. 
• Humans in research (15 points) . Write a 1-2 page commentary of the material presented on ONE of these URLs.
• Eugenics archive
• Tuskegee syphilis experiment
• Lynchburg forced sterilizations
• Human radiation experiments    Link 2 
 
• Case studies (50 points)
• (35 points) Analysis You have been provided with literature about ethics as part of this course. For this  assignment, write a 2-3 page essay that critically analyzes the approach that you used to assess the case studies. In particular, 
• Evaluate whether overall your decisions were based on teleological (outcomes-basd),  deontological (duty based) ethics, virtues etc. 
• Describe how your approach to analyzing ethical dilemmas changed or evolved (if it did) as the  course progressed.  What role if any, did other students, class discussion, and the  readings play in this process? What insights were offered when you meet in the small groups? 
• As part of your essay evaluate how you approached solving the case studies.  What method if any did you use?  Did your approach vary as you completed more of the case studies? 
•  Describe your present analytical approach to analyzing ethical dilemmas. 
• Now that you have completed this assignment, what recommendations can you offer to others as they begin to prepare case studies for analysis? 
• (15 points) Cases Using the analytical approach you presented in your essay, prepare a detailed analysis of three  case studies  you deemed difficult or especially interesting  from those  assigned. Explain why you chose these three
• Each of the 3 should come from a different chapter. 
• At least one case study must be from Fundamentals of Ethics