Robert Card, professor of philosophy, recently published a paper in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. The paper, entitled “The Inevitability of Assessing Reasons in Debates about Conscientious Objection in Medicine,” was written while he was on sabbatical as Scholar in Residence at the University of Rochester Medical Center and is a chapter from a book manuscript in progress. Card presented this work as an invited talk in Geneva, Switzerland, at a Brocher Foundation workshop organized by Oxford University this past summer.

SUNY Oswego has two semifinalists for the prestigious U.S. Student Fulbright Program. Senior Lauren Cutler, a meteorology major and German and math minor, is a semifinalist for an English teaching assistantship in Germany. Jesse Corfield, a 2014 graduate with a Spanish major and linguistics minor, is a semifinalist for an English teaching assistantship in Brazil. For more information on the U.S. Student Fulbright Program or how to apply for future programs, email lyn.blanchfield@oswego.edu.

Professor of management Sarfraz Mian has been advising/mentoring the Institute of Business Administration Karachi in developing their Center for Entrepreneurial Development since 2010. He has led IBA’s three national studies under the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor program. Mian attended the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship annual conference (Jan. 19 to 22) in Philadelphia and co-presented with the IBA team their Women Entrepreneurship Program, a successful student startup case study (Stallion) incubated at their university accelerator, and a research paper on "Entrepreneurship Plus" model practiced at IBA. The IBA's Women Entrepreneurship Program won USASBE's 2017 Outstanding Specialty Program Award, given to a college or university that has developed and currently still offers a high quality and innovative program, the purpose of which is to educate and train future generations of entrepreneurs in a niche or specialty area.

Lawrence Spizman, professor emeritus of the economics, contributed a chapter to the book "Forensic Economics: Assessing Personal Damages in Civil Litigation," published by Palgrave Macmillan. His chapter, "Estimating Educational Attainment and Earning Capacity of a Minor Child" is based on research he and John Kane of the economics department have published over the years. Spizman just completed a two year term as president of the National Association of Forensic Economics. He has recently been quoted in two articles in the Washington Post -- "In one corner of the law, minorities and women are often valued less" and "Congress could soon try to end racial and gender discrimination in civil suits." Spizman is a forensic economist assisting the legal community throughout the United States in matters concerning economic issues in litigation.

K. Brad Wray, pictured, professor of philosophy, was invited to present a paper to the Philosophy Department Colloquium at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland on Feb. 2. His paper was titled "The Pessimistic Induction and the Nature of Radical Theory Change: With an Illustration from Chemistry."

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