• John Hill ’13, has received a Mellon Summer Scholars Award for a research project titled: Self-Knowledge:  The First Person in Thought and Action.  Prof. Lisa Portmess is his mentor for this project.   As part of his research John will attend a workshop in June in Barcelona, "Centered Content and Communication Workshop," exploring philosophical issues arising from the perspectival character of some thoughts and the facts they represent.   
• John Hill has also been selected to participate in the 2012 Colorado Summer Seminar in Philosophy, a prestigious experience for outstanding undergraduates intending to go to graduate school in philosophy.   The topic for this summer’s seminar of 15-20 students is The Limits of Knowledge.  Admission to the program is highly competitive.  The course carries graduate credit and is sponsored by the University of Colorado, Boulder.
  
• We have several majors returning from a spring semester abroad, including:  Timothy Farina (Australia), Hilary Landfried (Nepal and Bhutan), Julius Matusewicz (France) , and Olivia Price (Egypt)