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April 23, 2004
CONTACT: Gordon Ovenshine (724) 738-4854;
e-mail: gordon.ovenshine@sru.edu
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SRU PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR BERNARD FREYDBERG RECEIVES
‘ZUZAK AWARD’
FOR EXCELLENCE; DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES
MINOR IN ETHICS
SLIPPERY
ROCK, Pa. – Philosophy has always been about the pursuit of
wisdom, says Dr. Bernard Freydberg, professor of philosophy at
Slippery Rock University. Holding to that fundamental premise has
helped the department achieve acclaim, on and off
campus.
Most
recently, Freydberg received the university’s 2004 Charles A.
Zuzak Award as the top professor in the College of Humanities, Fine
and Performing Arts.College faculty created the Zuzak
Award in 2002 to annually honor a top faculty member in the
college. Zuzak, the former dean, retired in 2001 after 21
years.
Freydberg,
an expert in classical Greek thought and Kant, received the award
for publishing two papers, presenting four others and having two
book proposals accepted by university presses.
His
26-year career at SRU has seen the publication of three books, 22
articles and presentation of papers at 50 conferences in the U.S.,
Greece and 12 other countries. Freydberg is only one component of a
strong department:
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SRU philosophy students have had more papers accepted at the
Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium than any other
university in Pennsylvania over the past three
years
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SRU philosophy students swept the 2003 State System of Higher
Education Philosophy Conference and had more papers accepted at the
2004 conference than any other university
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SRU philosophy students have won more prizes (six of a possible
nine) over the past three years at the State System Philosophy
Conference for which all 14 universities are
eligible
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Department Chair Dr. Richard Findler received last year’s
Zuzak Award
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The philosophy department recently launched a minor in
Ethics
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Philosophy professors Drs. William Oman and Brad Wilson have
launched a philosophy pre-law program and a campuswide honorary,
Golden Key International Honour Society,
respectively
“The
performance of our students and faculty is doing much to raise the
academic reputation of our university wherever we go,”
Freydberg said. “It is an honor to teach these students. In
terms of their accomplishments, SRU’s philosophy students are
without doubt the finest in the state.”
The
philosophy department has about 20 majors for a tight, intellectual
and friendly conversational circle, Freydberg added. The department
has four full-time faculty who teach numerous topics, including
“History of Philosophy,” “Philosophy of Law and
Justice,” “Environmental Ethics,”
“Philosophy of Art” and “Philosophy of
Literature.”
"We are proud to
present this year's award to Dr. Freydberg,” said Dr. William
McKinney, dean of the College of Humanities, Fine and Performing
Arts. “He is an internationally respected authority on Greek
philosophy. He is a model teacher-scholar."
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