Dr. Veena Howard, professor, Department of Philosophy, endowed chair in Jain and Hindu Dharma, and director, M.K. Gandhi Center: Inner Peace and Sarvodaya, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award to conduct a four-month research project in India. Her project, titled “Embodying the Jain Ideals of Heroism and Freedom,” will explore how Jain thinkers and activists worked to support women’s rights in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Read more on the College of Arts and Humanities blog.
Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor, professor emeritus, Social Work and Peace Studies, was honored by the Human Rights Coalition of the Central Valley on Dec. 7 for his contributions to promoting nonviolence, human rights, and peaceful protest in the San Joaquin Valley.
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