Former Faculty Fellow Alan Wertheimer passed away on April 10th. Wertheimer was Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Vermont; he also served as a Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard from 1991 to 1993. Wertheimer was the author of several influential books, including Coercion (Princeton University Press, 1987), and Exploitation (Princeton University Press, 1996).

At the Center for Ethics, Wertheimer was a great contributor over many years--as a fellow, a visiting scholar, and as a valuable mentor to many classes of fellows. Arthur Applbaum, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Undergraduate Fellowship program, notes that, "Alan had a profound effect on my intellectual development and on the Kennedy School’s ethics curriculum. We have lost a sharp-minded but even-keeled, ferociously honest but unpretentious colleague, and I have lost a dear dear friend." 

No information about memorial services is available at this time.