Marquette University has a new center for data, ethics, and society, directed by Michael Zimmer. It is designed to help foster cross-disciplinary collaboration among faculty at Marquette, and to help bring uniquely Jesuit and Catholic wisdom to bear on big data and technology issues of our day.

BFCGI Director Andy Gustafson provided an initial talk on “Ignatian Concerns Regarding Data Ethics and Society” on April 4th, followed by a panel of Marquette faculty from political science, theology, computer science, business, the law school, and the library. It was great for him to get to go back to the school who gave him his PhD. One of the philosophy professors Andy had back in grad school showed up for the talk, and that meant a lot.

Marquette’s center has a number of affiliated graduate and undergraduate students as well who provided posters for a session after the panel.