The Rock Ethics Institute promotes engaged ethics research and ethical leadership from its home in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts.
The Rock Ethics Institute promotes engaged ethics research and ethical leadership from its home in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts.
Research
The Rock Ethics Institute’s research areas integrate ethical considerations into interdisciplinary scholarship at Penn State. Select a research area below to learn more or view all.
Public Life
How can we strengthen the ways humans live and interact with one another?
Sustainability
How should we best steward our planet?
Technology
What are the risks and rewards at the intersection of ethics and technology?
Gender and Sexuality
How do we ethically address forms of oppression and inequality intersecting with gender and sexuality?
Food and Agriculture
What ethical challenges exist within our global food and agriculture systems?
Health
What are the ethical and policy implications of the systemic and institutional influences on health?
Global Issues
What happens at the junctions of policy, politics, and power?
Race
How can racial divisions be healed? How can the United States solve systemic racism?
Upcoming Rock Ethics Institute Events
