UNIVERSITY NEWS - OCTOBER 2004

CALENDAR EVENT

FAU to Host Public Seminar on Stem Cell Research

WHAT: Florida Atlantic University's Division of Research & Graduate Studies and The Florida Catholic Conference will host a public seminar exploring issues relevant to stem cell research.

WHEN: Monday, October 18
4 - 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: FAU Boca Raton Campus
University Theatre
777 Glades Road

COST: Free and open to the public

CONTACT: 561-297-0888

DESCRIPTION: This seminar will address various aspects of stem cell research from scientific, legal, ethical and religious perspectives. Each panelist will make a 10-minute presentation, followed by a question and answer session with the audience. Seminar panelists include Dr. Larry Lemanski, vice president for Research and Graduate Studies at FAU; Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia; Bernard Siegel, an attorney and executive director of the Genetics Policy Institute in Coral Gables; Dr. Alan L. Berger, Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies at FAU, and Dr. Robin N. Fiore, Adelaide R. Snyder Professor of Ethics at FAU.