LPP Professor Steve Nathanson’s book,  Terrorism and the Ethics of War (Cambridge Univ. Press) received the Best Book in Social Philosophy Award for 2010 from the North American Society for Social Philosophy. There will be a special session devoted to the book at the NASSP Conference in July.

Ph.D. Candidate Liana Pennington was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for her doctoral research. Liana is researching how parents, with a child accused of committing a crime, experience the court system as fair and effective and how views of legitimacy and justice may be developed within families.

Ph.D. Candidate Molly Perdue was featured in a front-page Provincetown Banner article profiling how she and her family cared for her mother. Her dissertation is focused on family caregivers for someone with Alzheimer’s disease. She was also cited in an article on care for the elderly in the Cape Cod Times. Molly is the director of family

LPP Professor Joan Fitzgerald received a travel grant from the German Marshall Fund of the United States to conduct research on climate change strategies in European cities. She will be at the University of Amsterdam for the month of May as part of a Fulbright Senior Scholar award. Ph.D. Candidate Liana Pennington was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for her doctoral research. Titled "The Role of Parents and Parens Patriae: Developing Views of Legitimacy and Justice in Juvenile Delinquency Court," Liana's project examines how parents and other family members experience the juvenile justice process and discuss issues