Ethics Grants, Awards, and Prizes

Student Ethics Essay Prizes

Fordham Undergraduate Prize in Ethics and Morality (Active)
The Fordham University's Center for Ethics Education is pleased to offer the annual Dr. K. York and M. Noelle Chynn Undergraduate Essay Prize in Ethics and Morality. The purpose of the paper is to stimulate student self-examination about concepts of ethics and morality encountered personally or as a concerned member of society.

National Student Essay Prize Competition in Ethics and Social Justice
The national undergraduate student essay contest was offered for two academic years to amplify historically underrepresented voices and perspectives on issues of societal import, and to encourage thoughtful reflection and critical thinking about ethical concepts as they are encountered personally and as members of society committed to social justice. This prize was supported by the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education.

Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities

Fordham HIV Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (Active)
The Fordham HIV Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) offers early career investigators research ethics training and financial support for a mentored research project that contributes to evidenced-based HIV prevention research ethics practices.

The Fordham/Santander Universities International Scholarship in Ethics Education (Active)
The Santander and Ethics and Society Scholarship provides direct support for international students who wish to pursue graduate-level study at Fordham University’s Master’s in Ethics and Society program. The master’s program, administered by the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education, provides students with a cross-disciplinary learning experience integrating moral foundations in humanities and sciences and their application to important contemporary social issues.

Center Visiting Fellows and Scholars Program
The Center for Ethics Education Visiting Fellow and Scholar Program seeks to draw individuals who will benefit from the rich exchange of ideas with members of the Center’s faculty and who will bring promising scholarship in return. The program fosters opportunities for an individual with an interest in ethics to interact with Center Faculty in support of his or her scholarly and/or professional goals. We invite applications from scholars, professors, policy makers, health-care professionals, and others who wish to use the Center’s many informal and formal resources to advance their work.

Faculty and Student-Faculty Grants

The Chynn Undergraduate Ethics Summer Research Scholarship
The Center for Ethics Education supported Fordham undergraduates participating in faculty-led ethics-related projects through the Chynn Undergraduate Ethics Essay Competition Endowment. Projects could include faculty research or course-development projects related to ethics and social justice. See awardees here.

Ethics, Social Justice & Health Equity Course Development Grants
The Center for Ethics Education awarded faculty summer course development grants, to support the creation of new Arts and Sciences undergraduate or graduate courses or new modules within existing courses that engage students in critical thinking about ethical issues of societal import. See awardees here.

Ethics, Social Justice & Health Equity Summer Faculty Research Grants
The Center for Ethics Education awarded summer faculty research grants to support research projects or the development of grant applications that contribute to advancing the common good through research promoting and protecting the dignity of persons, increasing health equity for marginalized populations, reducing stigma and social injustice, increasing moral understanding and collective moral action, or enhancing the responsible conduct of science, health, and social services. See awardees here.