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MIT Professor and Dillon Native to Present Ethics in Science Lecture at GSSM
December 30, 2009
On Jan. 5, at 4 p.m., Massachusetts Institute for Technology professor, Pulitzer Prize Award finalist and Dillon native Dr. Kenneth Manning will visit the S.C. Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM) to discuss “Science and Ethics.”
The lecture is part of GSSM’s ongoing objective to create timely and stimulating discussion opportunities for students to interact with and be inspired by some of the leading scholars in science, math and technology from South Carolina and beyond.
“This talk will center on the nature of science, which is embedded in ethical issues deriving from traditional human values,” Manning said. “I will talk about certain abuses in medical research, especially in human experimentation, and I will highlight the issue of fraud in science as an ethical concern of the profession itself.”
Manning earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees as well as his doctorate from Harvard University and joined the MIT faculty in 1974. His first major work was a study of 19th -century mathematics. This was followed by Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just in 1983, which won the Pfizer Award and the Lucy Hampton Bostick Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Kennedy Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
In 1984 he was awarded the Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian honor in South Carolina.
He is currently studying the role of blacks in American medicine and has authored a number of scholarly articles on blacks in science and medicine.
GSSM serves a high-achieving segment of the state’s high school juniors and seniors who are passionate about science, mathematics and technology and who are motivated to increase their knowledge in these subjects.
One of only 14 public, residential high schools in the country that specialize in science and mathematics, GSSM offers an early college experience to its students and allows them to earn college credits for many of their math and science courses.
