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Congratulations to our Undergraduate and Graduate End of the Year Award Recipients

There are three awards for this year's undegraduates. Winners of the Wilkins Award include, James Xie, Isabelle Brady, and Natalie Ries. For the Church Award, winners include Wesly Costa and Sasha Stern. Winners of the Girvetz Award include Ben Solnik and Aki Hayashi. Photos of some of the winners can be found on our department instagram. 

Alumni Spotlight

Ari Phillips ‘06 (Philosophy and Art) is now a climate reporter and editor for an environmental organization. He recently gave an interview about his journey here.

Gao and Escalante Díaz Barreiro Pass Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Kerong Gao and Salvador Escalante Díaz Barreiro for successfully defending their papers "On Reason’s Influence on the Non-Rational Part of the Soul " and “Non-rational Beliefs: Mental Division in Republic 10. 602c-603a”. Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.

Norton GSA Award

Congratulations to our grad student Patrick Norton, who recently won a GSA Excellence in Teaching Award! Only a handful of these are given out campus-wide each year, so this is a big honor. The award recognizes graduate students who have shown excellence and gone above and beyond as teachers at UC Santa Barbara.

Fingarette Awards

The department is pleased to announce the third round of awards to Philosophy graduate students from the fund established in honor of former UCSB philosophy professor Herb Fingarette by a generous gift from his daughter Ms. Ann Hasse. PhD Students Jon Charry, Katherina Gontaryuk, and Tiffani Thomason all received awards to present their work at, respectively, meetings of the Canadian Philosophical Association, the International Social Ontology Society, and the Society for Philosophy & Psychology. We are very grateful to Anne Hasse for her support and guidance.

UCSB Women in Business luncheon

Professor Tsouna Lecture Series on Plato's Republic at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris

Professor Tsouna will be delivering a lecture series on Plato's Republic at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. The dates and subjects are as follows: 

Gontaryuk Passes Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Katherina Gontaryuk for successfully defending her paper "A Response to the Reductive Materialist Account of People and Places". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.