New Full-time RS Faculty
We are excited to announce that Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith will be joining our department as a full-time faculty member for the 2010-2011 academic year.

New Interdisciplinary Major in Religious Studies & Philosophy
Students can now concentration in Philosophy or Religious Studies within an interdisciplinary Religious Studies & Philosophy major. For details on the exciting Senior Capstone and Capstone experience possibilities, click here.

New RS-PL courses
We have three new courses being offered for the first time in 2010:

• PL/IS 358 Violence (Spring 2010)
• RS/IS 360 Ecuador (Spring 2010)
• RS 252 Judaism (Spring 2011)

Women & Leadership Summer Research Fellowship
Dr. Carol Coburn, Professor of Religious Studies, was one of two researchers awarded a Women & Leadership Summer Research Fellowship by Loyola University. During this summer, Dr. Coburn will be traveling to Loyola to continue her archival research on Catholic Sisters & Social Justice in the 20th century.

Women & Spirit Exhibit
Dr. Carol Coburn served as an historian and archivist on the advisory board for Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America, a national project sponsored by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Women & Spirit features, "the untold stories of the innovative, action-oriented women who played a significant role in shaping the nation's social and cultural landscape." This exhibit (to be temporarily housed this year at the Smithsonian Institute - Washington) is currently touring across the U.S. See Dr. Coburn showcased at www.womenandspirit.org.