MUNEWS
Tayo Oyedeji, a
second-year doctoral student at the Missouri School of Journalism,
has been named a prestigious Harvey Fellow by the Mustard Seed Foundation
based in Arlington, Va. The Foundation is a Christian organization
that encourages graduate students in premier educational and research
programs to pursue leadership positions in strategic fields where
Christians tend to be under-represented. [More]
Jeffrey H. Goldfien (MU '05) published
an article, "Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor:
RLUIPA and the Mediation of Religious Land Use Disputes" in
the 2006 Journal of Dispute Resolution 435. He argues that religious
land use disputes have become widespread since adoption of the Religious
Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, recommending
mediation at an early stage in such disputes.
Bina Gupta, Ph.D. MU chair and
professor of philosophy, and director of the South Asian Studies
Program, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
for 2006-07 to pursue a project on reason and experience in Indian
philosophy |