Professor Margaret Moore has been selected as a 2019 recipient of the Queen’s University Excellence in Research Prize, the highest form of research excellence recognition at Queen’s.

Congratulations to Cheryl Cline, who was nominated for the 2019 Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching – a nomination that is itself a recognition of her excellence. Cheryl is Director of the Office of Bioethics, and is cross-appointed to Philosophy. She has been recognized for her superb teaching in the past, winning a fellowship in educational scholarship, and several other awards.

Jon Miller was invited to be a visiting scholar at New York University-Abu Dhabi in April and May 2019.  NYUAD is one of three NYU campuses around the world which are full degree-granting institutions, the other two being NYU Shanghai and the original NYU in Manhattan.  Previous holders of the prestigious position offered to Miller include Julia Annas, Quassim Cassam, Laurie Paul, and Kyle Stanford.

Recent PhD Jason Millar has been appointed Canada Research Chair in the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Ottawa. This chair will enable Jason to further develop his interdisciplinary research, bringing ethics and policy considerations to bear on the engineering of emerging robotics and AI.

Nancy Salay has been appointed incoming Editor of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophy Review, the official journal of the Canadian Philosophical Association. Dialogue is a broad journal, open to all branches of philosophy, which makes the job as Editor a challenging one. In her new role, Nancy has exciting ideas about how the journal can draw on the vitality

Recent Queen's PhD Yual Chiek has just accepted a permanent position at St John's University in NYC. He will be an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy there, starting on September 1. Yual works on Early Modern Philosophy, focusing especially on the ideas of compossibility and pre-established harmony in the work of G.W.F. Leibniz. He has co-edited two volumes and has published a number of articles and chapters on these topics.

Congratulations to Yual!

Kerah Gordon-Solmon's new variant of the Trolley Problem, explained in her Pea Soup post "Trolley Follies", has attracted a number of comments and questions. The post won PEA Soup's July Normative Ethics Prize. PEA (Philosophy, Ethics, Academia) Soup is a well-known blog publishing philosophical essays and ideas.

Will Kymlicka, Professor and Canada's Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's, has been appointed, with Irene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology at Berkeley, as co-director of a 5-year, $5 million program, "Boundaries, Membership & Belonging", under

The Royal Society of Canada has announced some new appointments of Philosophy Department members.

Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's, has received the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's (SSHRC) highest research honour, the Gold Medal.

The Gold Medal is awarded to an individual whose sustained leadership, dedication and originality of thought have inspired students and colleagues alike. Will has won the medal for his groundbreaking work on the link between democracy and diversity which has advanced knowledge on models of citizenship and social justice within multicultural societies.