The following students were inducted by Phi Sigma Tau officers Akiva
Glick, Galil Gertner, and Ben Ableson, and faculty liason Prof.
Acampora:
Marissa Boeck
Adam Israel
Elizabeth Maglieri
Shawn Rahman (Queens College)
Adele Sarli
Catherine Schoeder
Nadan Tsur
Profressor Kirkland made the following announcements:
II. Students Graduating with Honors:
Noam Barzilay
Bracha Mandel
Catherine Mietek
Lori Taverna
Martin Tzanev
III. Significant Student Accomplishments: Current Students
Marissa Boeck has earned a
competitive internship at ABC network in New York City. She will
complete a directed study in the ethics of journalism as she undertakes
her internship this fall.
Laura O’Neil has been accepted
into the University of Colorado’s Summer Seminar in Philosophy, a
competitive program for undergraduates across the country to engage in
intensive study and discussion of a philosophical topic. This year the
topic is God. The seminar runs from 11 July to 29 July 2005.
IV. Significant Student Accomplishments: Graduates
Celina Bragagnolo, class of
2004, accepted with a 5-year Turner Fellowship and tuition waiver to
the PhD Program in Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook.
Brian Crowley, class of 2004,
accepted with a 5-year teaching assistantship and tuition waiver to the
PhD Program in Philosophy at the University of Kentucky.
Marilyn Hoffman, class of 2004,
accepted into the MA Program in Philosophy at Fordham University.
Takashi Ishida, class of 2003,
accepted into the PhD Programs at the University of Tokyo and
University of Kyoto in Japan. He is still deciding on his choice.
Sarah Sausner, class of 2002,
accepted with 5-year fellowship and tuition waiver to the PhD Program
in Sociology at the University of Washington. Has also had a
co-authored paper published.
Sadaf Mirza, class of 2001, and
JD from Yeshiva Law School (2003), accepted to the MA Program in
International Relations at Stanford University (or John Hopkins).
Alicia Siebenaler, class of
1998, worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and now accepted into
the MA Program in Philosophy at Columbia University.
Allison Marek, class of 1997,
has directed a film entitled “Contagious” featured on the cable network
Showtime and premiered at NYU’s First Run Festival this past April.
V. Significant Faculty Achievement: Part-Time
Daniel Greenspan has been
awarded a yearlong Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship to do research on his
dissertation on Kierkegaard in the Kierkegaard Research Center at the
University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
James Snyder won the Graduate
Student Essay Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, offered by
the Renaissance Society of America, for his paper “Thomas Hobbes and
His Early Political and Scientific Manuscripts.” He also won the
Society’s Travel and Research Grant for travel to and study at the
Vatican Library in Rome for research on various early Christian
manuscripts on Plato’s Timaeus.
Chris Mirus will be leaving the
department to assume a full-time position in the philosophy department
at SUNY, Albany. We thank him for his work in the department over this
academic year and wish him nothing but the best in his new position.
VI. Significant Faculty Achievement: Full-Time
James Freeman’s book, Acceptable Premises: An Epistemic Approach
to an Informal Logic Problem, has been recently published by
Cambridge University Press. The book has already elicited favorable
reviews from prominent philosophers in the field.