Congratulations to Prof. Mark Richard, inaugural recipient of the Lenore Stern Professorship in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

In June, Prof. Daniel Dennett received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Edinburgh. See some pictures via Tufts M.A. alum Avery Archer.

Professor Nancy Bauer was awarded the 2005 Leibner Award for distinguished teaching and advising.

The Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award for distinguished teaching and advising was established in 1973 by the late Dr. Maz Tishler, Professor of Chemistry at Wesleyan University and Emeritus member of the Tufts Board of Trustees. The Prize is awarded to a member of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Engineering selected by colleagues and students in acknowledgment of outstanding teaching and student advising.

George E. Smith received the award in 1997.

Prof. Dennett was named Humanist of the Year for 2004, "for his promoting the values of Humanism". Recent awardees include Steven Weinberg, the late Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson, and Richard Dawkins.

The American Humanist Association recognized him at its 2004 Annual Conference.

Prof. Dennett was the 2004 recipient of the Bertrand Russell Society Award, "For living the life of a public intellectual with courage and wit in the spirit of Bertrand Russell".

His acceptance note is here.

In 2003, Prof. Daniel Dennett received the Barwise Prize from the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Philosophy and Computers (chair: Marvin Croy). Prof. Dennett's acceptance talk was entitled "Computers as Tools for Philosophers".