in religious studies from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. in the philosophy of religion and serving as an urban law enforcement officer, he received a second M.A. As an adult, he gradually moved away from that perspective and became a religious progressive/skeptic. Smith grew up in the world of fundamentalist Christianity. Smith is one of the most popular instructors in the UW Osher program.ĭr. Smith via Zoom from Seattle as a referral from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Washington (UW). Presentations include both moral and legal aspects of each issue and class discussion. We examine some of the moral theories in circulation today, including relativism, divine command theory, egoism, utilitarianism, deontology and virtue theory, and how these can be applied to some of the major moral issues of today. Modern life is rife with thorny ethical issues such as abortion, war and end-of-life questions (suicide, physician-aided dying, euthanasia and termination of life support) to name just a few.
Watch the Preview Video for Ethical Theories and their Application to Contemporary Moral Issues In 1986, he received the National Science Foundation Exemplary Teaching Award.
With support from the World Wildlife Fund, Tucker has spent time in the Amazon rainforest analyzing medicinal plants. He has been awarded fellowships at Bell Laboratories, DuPont and Genentech. degrees from Washington State University in Chemistry. He was quite a guy!ĭavid Tucker has taught science education at both high school and college levels. The class is divided into three sessions focusing on 1) Harry’s home in Alaska during the Pleistocene 2) his life and friends during migrations and 3) his last migration and the changing climate. The instructor feels a conceptual understanding of how DNA researchers do their sleuthing is important to all people on the planet. The class is designed for the general public. This class also provides a glimpse of how many species-just like Harry-went extinct.
Harry’s story is typical of how scientists can now use ancient DNA from tusks and the environment, along with chemical analyses, to create life histories of plants and animals. We know what he did every summer and every winter! We know he migrated each year across Alaska, accumulating almost 50,000 total miles. He was born 17,100 years ago and lived for a whopping 28 years during the Pleistocene glacial epoch. But now, using advanced DNA sequencing technology and chemical analyses, we have learned a lot about Harry.
At the time, paleoecologists knew little about his life. A few of Harry’s bones were unearthed near a stream in central Alaska in 2010.
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