GENERAL: The AAAS has established a new Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. The purpose of the award is to honor scientists and engineers whose actions, often at significant personal cost, have exemplified principles of scientific freedom and responsibility. The deadline for receipt of nominations is June 30, 1981. For further information on the nomination procedure, contact: Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20005.

CONFERENCES: The Fourth National 1 Conference on Enforcement in occupational and Professional Regulation, entitled New Directions in Investigation and Enforcement, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana on June 15, 16 and 17. The conference will be coordinated by the Association for Professional Practice. For information write to: Steven I. Keen, Association far Professional Practice, 1143 E. Jersey Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey 07201. The National Center for Professional Responsibility announces a series of conferences and workshops in the field of lawyer discipline. Upcoming meetings include the Southwest Regional Discipline Conference, May 8-9, 1981, in Dallas, Texas, and the Seventh Annual Disciplinary Workshop, June 4-6, 1981, in Arlington, Virginia. For further information, contact: The National Center for Professional Responsibility, 77 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606. Telephone: (312)621-9250.

The Institute for Inter-professional Studies in Health Law, which is affiliated with the University of Houston College of Law and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, announces the Second Annual Workshop on Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Law. The meeting will be held in Houston, Texas from June 8 to June 12, 1981. For further information, contact: Ms. Gwen Savage, Dept. of Preventive Medicine & Community Health, Division of Environmental Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550. Telephone: (713) 765-1803.

The Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values announces a Workshop on Bioethics at Westminster College at The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, June 14-20, 1981. For additional information, contact: Michael D. Bayles, Director, Westminster Institute, Westminster College, London, Canada, N6G 2M2. Telephone: (519) 673-0046.

The Working Group on Ethics and Values of Public Responsibility, which was established in 1975 by the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration to determine the extent and the character of the problem of declining standards among governmental employees, announces a Round Table Conference to be held in Canberra, Australia, in July, 1981. For further information, contact: Dr. O. P. Dwivedi, Project Director, Working Group on Ethics and Values of Public Responsibility, Department of Political Studies, College of Social Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1. Telephone: (519) 824-4120.

The Hastings Center will present a workshop on Institutional Review Boards and Human Subjects Research July 12-18, 1981 at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. The goals of this workshop are twofold: (1J to provide participants with a broad background in ethical principles, such as beneficence, respect for persons, an distributive justice that underlie -an subjects research; and (21-to provide specific information and guidance in solving practical problems shared by all IRB's, whether they review medical or social science research. For further information contact WORKSHOPS on IRB's and HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH,The Hastings Center,360 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 10706.

The Center for Philosophy and Public Policy and the Hastings Center will co-sponsor a Workshop on Ethics and Public Policy June 21 - 27, 1981 at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. The workshop consists of three sections: (1) an analysis of three policy problems: military service; Mexican immigration; and risk and consent; (2) an examination of what is applied ethics and what it is capable of achieving, and (3) a look at public policy within a theoretical political framework. Inquiries concerning the workshop should be sent to : Elizabeth Cahoon, Center for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Department of English and History of Southern Technical Institute, in conjunction with the Humanities and Technology Association, is sponsoring the fifth annual conference on the interface of the humanities and technology in Marietta, Georgia, October 22 – 23, 1981. The deadline for submission of papers and/or abstracts is May 1, 1981. For further information, contact: Amos St. Germain or Carol M. Barnum, Department of English and History, Southern Technical Institute, Marietta, Georgia 30060.

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