Student and Alumni News

Jobs

Piotr Boltuc is now the Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Sterling Burnett is now a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, Texas. He was also married last July.

Karen Hornsby has a tenure-track position at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Carrie-Ann Khan has a tenure-track position in the Philosophy Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.

Collette Palamar has a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor & Coordinator of Environmental Studies at Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Mahesh Ananth took up a tenure-track position at Chicago State University in January 2004.

Sports

Sangeeta Sangha was once more the driving force behind ensuring that ours is, as John Hasnas once remarked, one of the most athletic bunch of philosophers ever seen outside the Acropolis. Soccer seemed to be the main game of choice this year, although tennis and basketball have been making a showing as summer approaches. Three of our graduate students, Noah Levin, Nico Maloberti, and Steve Weimer (and one aging faculty member), were members of the university's championship winning intramural indoor soccer team.

Weddings

Jennifer Sproul was married in the summer of 2003 and somehow managed to drag herself back to Bowling Green as Jennifer Sproul-Swindell after a honeymoon in Italy.

Noah Levin and Jenny have finally received permission from their dogs to tie the proverbial and will do so on two continents later in the summer of 2004.

Babies, babies, babies!

Despite what some dissertation supervisors say, we philosophers are a prolific bunch, as is borne out by the number of offspring produced recently.

Mahesh and Rekha Ananth became the proud parents of Kathan Murthy Ananth, who is now doing very well, as can be seen the the picture above.

Russell and Heather DiSilvestro had a third girl, Bethany, in the summer of 2003.

Zoleka Luswazi gave birth to Robert Aarian Sayola Jackson in October, 2003.

Justin Torisky surrounded by a crowd of admirers

Gene and Theresa Torisky's son Justin continues to grow, as can be seen in this picture.

Jackie Harley (formerly Melluish) has a son named Dylan.

Mario and Assya added another Pascalev to Florida's growing Bulgarian minority, by the name of Alexander.

Kaitlyn Jae-Eun Nichols

Mike and Judy Nichols had a second baby, named Kaitlyn, so that Ben will have someone to torment when he gets older. Here's a photo of the cute little tormentee.

Sad News

Nakasha and Khalid Ahmad's son Ashar passed away in May 2004.