Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture (IPEC) News Blog

Libby Meyer Receives New Funding

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Libby Meyer (VPA) is the principal investigator (PI) on a project that has received $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The funding will be used to bring Guerilla Opera to the McArdle Theater on Oct. 12-15 for five performances of Elena Ruehr’s new comic opera, “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage,” based on the graphic novel of the same name by Sydney Padua.

The project is a collaboration with the Department of Computer Science; the College of Computing; the College of Sciences and Arts; and the Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture. It is part of the celebration of 50 years of computer science at Michigan Tech.

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Alexandra Morrison and Adam Wellstead Co-authors of Paper Published in Teaching Public Administration

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Alexandra Morrison (HU) and Adam Wellstead (SS) are co-authors of a paper published in Teaching Public Administration.

The paper is titled “Reclaiming public service ethics through algorithms: Implications for teaching and development.”

Helen Dickinson of the School of Business, University of New South Wales- Canberra, Australia, is also a co-author of the paper.

In this multidisciplinary authored paper, Morrison, Wellstead and Dickinson argue that public service leaders must be attentive to ethical questions that converge around adopting “data-driven” techniques, including algorithmic decision-making. Algorithmic and technology focused ethics question assumptions about the current deficits within public service ethics pedagogy in public service programs and university programs and the future direction of the discipline. To do so raises longstanding but neglected questions about the public services’ role in the state.

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Richard Canevez Receives New Funding

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Richard Canevez (HU/IPEC), in collaboration with Lara Zwarun of the University of Missouri – St. Louis, has received a $6,625 research contract from the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society.

The project is titled “Commodification of Religious Iconography as Resistance in Saint Javelin.”

The project will explore the intersection of diasporic, religious and political identity among the Ukrainian communities in America and Canada as considered through the use of religious iconography as part of the commercialized aspects of Ukraine’s resistance against Russia’s escalated 2022 invasion.

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