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Long Receives ETS Summer Faculty Fellowship

Professor Christopher Long was awarded a 2009 Education Technology Services Summer Faculty Fellowship. The project that was funded, Socratic Politics in Digital Dialogue, is designed to explore the opportunities digital expression offers to enhance, deepen, expand and promote his academic scholarship in philosophy by focusing on issues related to the Socratic practice of politics. To read more, click here.

North American Kant Society

The sixth annual meeting of the Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society will be held at Penn State University on April 24-25, 2009. Eckart Förster (The Johns Hopkins University) and Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis/Penn State University) will be keynote speakers. For more information including the full conference program, click here.

Collegium of Black Women Philosophers

The second conference of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP) will be held on Friday May 1, 2009 at Penn State University in the Hintz Alumni Center. Welcoming Remarks will be offered at 8:45 am, Conference Papers will be presented throughout the day beginning at 9:00 am, and the Keynote Address by Michele Moody-Adams, Ph.D. of Cornell University will be given at 4:45 pm. These events are free and open to the public. For more information, including the full conference program, please visit the CBWP web site: Collegium of Black Women Philosophers.

Graduate Student Wins College Teaching Award

Jared Hibbard-Swanson has received the 2008-2009 College of the Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate Students. Jared is the eighth student from the philosophy department to have won recognition for exceptional teaching in the past four years. For more information on Jared's excellent teaching, click here.

Cultivating Underrepresented Students in Philosophy (CUSP) program continues in Spring 2009

CUSP is an all-expense paid 2-day workshop held at the Philosophy Department at the Pennsylvania State University each April for up to eight promising prospective graduate students in philosophy from traditionally underrepresented groups (such as African Americans, Chicano/as and Latino/as, Native Americans, Asian Americans). For information on eligibility and application process, click here.

 

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