Ethics Grants, Awards, and Prizes

Student Ethics Essay Prizes

Fordham Undergraduate Prize in Ethics and Morality
The Fordham University's Center for Ethics Education is pleased to announce the 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
This national undergraduate student essay contest is open to college juniors and seniors at accredited 4-year colleges and universities in the U.S. The contest is intended 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 is supported by the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education.

Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities

Fordham HIV Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute
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
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 has funds available to support 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. Funds can be used to support undergraduate research assistants, for up to 18 hours/week, and up to $20/hr (for up to a total of $4,000 per project).

Ethics, Social Justice & Health Equity Course Development Grants
The Center for Ethics Education will award up to two $3,000 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.

Ethics, Social Justice & Health Equity Summer Faculty Research Grants
The Center for Ethics Education will award up to two summer faculty research grants, conducted. Funding of up to $7,500 will 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.