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LOCATION
The Bioethics Institute is located in Baron-Forness Library at the center of the Edinboro University campus. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania is in northwestern Pennsylvania, approximately 100 miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; and Buffalo, New York. The Borough of Edinboro is a small university town a few miles south of Lake Erie and west of the Allegheny Mountains. It is a quiet, peaceful place. Winters are not bitterly cold, but are snow packed because of lake effect snow conditions. Summers are ideally pleasant.
HISTORY
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Edinboro University has been a center for bioethics since the beginning of the discipline in 1969. Dr. James F. Drane began work in bioethics at Edinboro University that year. Since then, he has worked to promote bioethics in the U.S., and Latin America. The Edinboro Bioethics Institute is designed to continue his work in bioethics at Edinboro University and throughout Latin America.