wtf

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/professors-receive-packets-of-poop?utm_term=.eyxl1rLZ86#.eszJ0zmKg9


UPDATE: The NYTimes is on it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/books/someone-mailed-feces-to-four-philosophers-a-disquisition.html?emc=edit_th_20161008&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=72160715

Registration

Registration will begin for graduate students at 9 a.m. on Monday, October 31st, followed by undergraduate students at 1 p.m. on Monday, October 31st. 

Registration will remain open until 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, December 8th. 

News from the Graduate School

Graduate Student Excellence Awards

Each year, the Graduate School recognizes the important contributions of graduate students to the excellence of Binghamton University with several renowned awards, including those for Excellence in Teaching, Excellence in Research, and Excellence in Service/Outreach. Nominations are due the first Friday in November. Each program may nominate two graduate students per award per year. More information is available on our website. Please contact Jessica Davis at jfwillia@binghamton.edu with any questions.

Fall Travel Grants Deadlines

Please remind students that applications for the Foundation Travel Grant and Clark Fellowship Travel Grant are due on Friday, November 4. For more information, please visit our  Awards Processes and Deadlines page. For further assistance, please reach out to Jessica Davis at jfwillia@binghamton.edu.

Graduate Application for Degree Due

The recommended deadline for the Graduate Application for Degree (GAFD) is Monday, October 31. Timely completion of this form ensures timely completion of degree paperwork.

Graduate Application for Degree

Are you planning to take a degree this semester?  If yes, The Graduate Application for Degree (GAFD) for Fall 2016 is available on the Graduate School website Graduation page.

The deadline to be included in the commencement program is Monday, October 31.  Timely completion of this form ensures timely completion of degree paperwork.  If you also wish to participate in Commencement this May, please visit the Commencement website and complete a participation form.

SPEL Colloquium: Friday 16 September

Regina Rini
Assistant Professor
NYU Center for Bioethics

"Microaggression and Moral Responsibility"

3:00-5:00pm
UUW 324

IASH: Anja Karnein on Wednesday

September 14, 2016 IASH Fellows' Speaker Series:

Presented by:  Anja Karnein (Philosophy.)   "Duties of Beneficence, Obligatory Aid, And What Any of This has to do with Helping the Global Poor"

Abstract: How can some aid be obligatory if there is generally latitude with regard to duties of beneficence? I offer a new reading of the duty of beneficence proposing that, counter to prevalent voices in the literature, genuine cases of obligatory aid are not instances of beneficence. Instead, they are situated in the realm of respect, the other imperfect duty Kant describes, and which permits significantly less latitude. This (more narrow) reading of beneficence solves the problem of obligatory aid and, more generally, shows that cases, such as aid to the global poor, are not best described as cases of beneficence.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 12:00pm, IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)

how to write that dissertation/book?

20 minutes writing, then 15 minutes exercising. Repeat.