Thursday, March 17, 2011
Stoll to present Cooper Award lecture on ethics in higher education
Dr. Mary Lynn Stoll
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Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 Focusing exclusively on teaching, the Cooper Award honors a USI faculty member whose work in University Core courses has been especially creative and successful in furthering UCC goals. The Cooper Award winner is expected to present a lecture to the University community during the academic year. Stoll was announced as this year's winner in fall 2010. Each semester, Stoll teaches between 80 and 100 students in two to three sections of Introduction to Ethics, a course that fulfills part of the Core Curriculum under "The Self." In addition, she teaches introductory courses in philosophy, contemporary philosophy, political and legal philosophy, and logic and critical thinking. Stoll's research interests include ethics, applied ethics, and social and political philosophy. She is particularly interested in corporations and free speech rights, globalization, the environment, and business ethics. She has published several articles in business ethics on marketing ethics and on corporations and free speech rights. Stoll's involvement extends outside of the classroom, as advisor for the Philosophy Club and Vegetarian Club, and coach for the Ethics Bowl Team. She has served on the Core Curriculum Assessment Committee, Gender Studies Committee, Philosophy Program Review Committee, and the Working Group for Nationally Competitive Scholarships, and served as an alternate representative for the College of Liberal Arts to the Faculty Senate. She has organized a USI production of The Vagina Monologues for the last five years. Stoll joined the University in fall 2005. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Purdue University in 2002. Her dissertation dealt with moral obligation in a global economy focusing on the environment, the poor, and ways in which businesses can help or hinder us in meeting moral obligations. Stoll taught at Minnesota State University-Mankato and at Muskingum College before joining USI. The Cooper award is named in honor of H. Lee Cooper, a long-time friend and supporter of USI. The award was presented at the Fall Faculty and Administrative Staff Meeting in August. It includes a generous stipend, a plaque, and additional monies for travel and related faculty development. |
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