Welcome back to Fall semester IPEC Members!
We have published our first newsletter of the season. Don’t forget about our upcoming IPEC social on October 11 from 5:00-7:00pm. Also, you can now view our Annual Report!
IPEC is hosting a membership social in Walker 139 on Friday, October 11 from 5:00pm – 7:00pm.
New, prospective, and returning members of IPEC are welcome to join us for an evening of welcoming all back to campus for the Fall semester. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow IPEC members, make new connections, and discuss your research.
Refreshments will be provided.
The National Endowment for the Arts has approved Libby Meyer (VPA) for a grant in the amount of $20,000.
This grant will support a multidisciplinary arts series at the Rozsa Center. In total, the NEA will award 1,135 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling more than $37 million as part of its second round of fiscal year 2024 grants.
Meyer’s work supports IPEC, the Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture. She serves as an executive committee member of the institute. Her recent podcast episode with IPEC Presents can be streamed on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
The Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture (IPEC) announces the Spring 2024 Research Seed Grant award recipients. Congratulations to each of the awardees.
The principal investigators of the awarded projects include:
Faculty Small Seed Research Grants:
- Erika Vye (GLRC)
- Mark Lounibos (HU)
- Dana Van Kooy (HU)
- Mary Cyr (VPA)
- Chuck Wallace (CS)
- Alexandra Morrison (HU)
- Rich Canevez (HU)
- Mark Rouleau (SS)
Graduate Student Research Grants:
- Kyle Parker McGlynn, Ph.D. student — Industrial Heritage and Archaeology
- Aritra Chakrabarty, Ph.D. student — Environmental and Energy Policy
- Kendall Belopavlovich, Ph.D. candidate — Rhetoric, Theory and Culture
- James Akinola, Ph.D. student — Rhetoric, Theory and Culture
- Emma Johnson, Ph.D. student — Rhetoric, Theory and Culture
- Rachael Hathcoat, M.S. student — Rhetoric, Theory and Culture
IPEC’s seed funding applications for both faculty and graduate students close on April 12, 2024.
Description: Small Grants are available to Michigan Tech Graduate Students to conduct preliminary research in areas that intersect with Policy, Ethics, and Culture, including but not limited to (1) Social Media and Society; (2) Human Machine Culture; (3) Justice and Security in Energy Transitions; (4) Ethics in STEM; and (5) Algorithmic Culture. Funds can be used for hourly pay, conference travel, or travel to collect data and access primary sources.
Contact: If you have any questions about whether or not your research project fits with IPEC’s research scope, reach out to IPEC’s Associate Director Soonkwan Hong at shong2@mtu.edu.
The Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture has published our latest newsletter, available to the campus community here. IPEC has several collaborative, interdisciplinary funding applications underway that we are proud to report on. Check out our affiliates upcoming events, and see our April 12 deadline for faculty and graduate student seed funding.
In this episode of IPEC Presents, we examine our new season’s theme of ethics from a different perspective. Dr. Mark Rouleau brings with him insights from an IPEC-sponsored trip to Brazil. Mark participated in the Summer School on AI technologies for trust, interoperability, autonomy, and resilience in Industry 4.0. The summer school was a one-week hands on training hosted at the University of São Paulo focused on using automation techniques in Multi Agent System (MAS) environments to solve practical industrial problems. Topics covered through this hackathon style training included the following: Web of Things, Knowledge Graphs, Multi Agent Systems, and Responsible and Trustworthy AI.
Check out the podcast on Spotify!
When: March 22, 2024 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Where: Petersen Library, Walker Arts and Humanities Center
Who: Jason Archer, Scott Marratto, Alexandra Morrison
What: A brown bag discussion in which each (HU) faculty member will give a short presentation.
Light refreshments will be served!
Save the date for this semester’s IPEC Social Event! We welcome returning, new and prospective members to join us.
When: March 21, 2024 from 4:00-6:00pm
Where: Walker 139, IPEC Office
What: A general meeting to welcome members to the updated IPEC office space.
We will provide light refreshments during the event.
Contact Director Stefka Hristova, shristov@mtu.edu, for more information.
In our new season of IPEC Presents, we contemplate ethics as it relates to interdisciplinary research.
Our first guest this season is Dr. Alexandra Morrison, an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities here at Michigan Tech. Alexandra is also the Ethics and Philosophy minor Advisor, overseeing undergraduate students from all across campus. Her main research areas include 20th century Continental Philosophy, especially Phenomenology. She also publishes in Feminist Social and Political Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Technology and STEM Ethics pedagogy and is currently working on several interdisciplinary projects in STEM ethics, as well as a manuscript that makes a phenomenologically based critique of recent approaches to an ethics of AI.
Tune in on Spotify and Apple Podcast!