Columbia, S.C. – Columbia College Honors student Diana Lynde has been chosen to attend DePauw University's The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics to present her submission "The Curious Case of the Conversational Absolutist." Each year, The Prindle Institute invites only thirty undergraduate students from across the country to come to their campus, located in Greencastle, Indiana, to take part in panel discussions on ethics with fellow students and professors of ethics. The Prindle Institute awards a stipend, which includes room, board, and partial airfare; the Division of Behavioral Sciences and Human Inquiry at Columbia College will sponsor Lynde to cover her remaining airfare expenses.
Lynde, a junior from Columbia, S.C., is a particularly distinguished Honors Program student, who has made presentations on the power of reflective learning at the national convention of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, as well as on a variety of teaching and learning topics at two National Collegiate Honors Council conferences. She is majoring in communication with a double minor in business administration and philosophy. Recently, Lynde won a prestigious South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (SCICU) Collaborative Research Grant to conduct research in Germany on the topic of gender, philosophy, and the academic market place. Dr. Heather Matthusen, assistant professor of philosophy at the College, has served as Lynde’s advisor on both the ethics submission and the SCICU grant.
The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics promotes critical reflection and constructive debate about the most important ethical questions: What is right, just, and good, and what must human beings do—now and in the future—to meet their moral responsibilities? The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics’ primary objective is to enrich the quality of ethical deliberation and action for DePauw’s students, as well as for its faculty and administration, and to reach out in related ways to the broader academic, geographical, and global community.
Columbia College is a private, liberal arts women's college with a legacy of developing leaders with the courage, commitment, confidence and competence to build a better world. The Women's College offers 35 undergraduate majors, and coeducational evening and graduate school programs are also offered. The College is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Enrollment is 1500 students from 23 states and 20 countries. For more information about Columbia College visit www.columbiasc.edu.
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