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MEDIA ALERT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 3, 2007
www.jcu.edu
Contact: Tonya Strong-Charles
               216.397.1958
   tstrong@jcu.edu

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“21st  Century Genetic Medicine:  Will it Make Us More or Less Humane?”
A lecture by
Rev. Kevin Fitzgerald, S.J.
January 17, 2008
7:30 pm
D.J. Lombardo Student Center / Conference Room
This event is free and open to the public

 

WHAT:

The Institute of Catholic Studies Lecture Series

 

WHO:

Reverend Kevin Fitzgerald, S.J.

Fitzgerald is the Dr. David Lauler Chair in Catholic Health Care Ethics at Georgetown University and a research associate professor in the Department of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center. Fitzgerald has earned doctorates in molecular genetics and in bioethics from Georgetown University and a Master of Divinity degree from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. He is an expert on human cloning, cloning research, ethics of cloning, and genetic testing.

WHERE:

John Carroll University
20700 N. Park Blvd.
University Heights, OH 44118
D.J. Lombardo Student Center / Conference Room

CONTACT:

Dr. Paul V. Murphy
Director, The Institute of Catholic Studies
Professor- History
John Carroll University
216.397.4953

pvmurphy@jcu.edu

 

 

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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