We are delighted to announce that Duncan Pritchard was recently awarded the Paul H. Silverman Award for Outstanding Work in Ethics, for his work on the Anteater Virtues Project. Congratulations, Duncan!
Wake Forest's Educating Character Initiative profiles the Anteater Virtues project and showcases some of the recent UCI podcasts on Scholarly Values. Read the full article here.
An article in the Guardian by Jay Miller (Warren Wilson College, North Carolina) draws on Duncan Pritchard's work on philosophy in prisons and how it develops virtuous intellectual character. Read the full article here.
SeptemberJoin us in person or online for Anteater Virtues and Scholarly Values, a full-day conference event exploring the role of intellectual character in education and the evolving mission of universities. The event will showcase recent efforts highlighting the role...
MayScholarly Values and Community Engagement: A University-Wide Conversation UCI's campuswide theme for this academic year is ‘The Scholarly Values’. This session is designed to highlight how community engagement at UCI reflects and shapes our core scholarly values....
Duncan Pritchard, Distinguished Professor of philosophy and chair of the Year of Scholarly Values Committee, discusses how scholarly values drive health education and patient care with Mark Lazenby, dean of UCI's Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing. Lazenby...
Rapid advancements in AI technology have, in some ways, distanced us from harnessing its impact on our lives. There appear to be more questions about using AI than there are answers. However, scholars and students must acknowledge that AI is here to stay at the...
In the Winter 2025 edition of the UCI magazine, a candid conversation with philosophy professor Duncan Pritchard explores the meaning of UC Irvine’s Year of Scholarly Values and its intention to help students learn how to think for themselves and develop intellectual...
March Scholarly Values, AI, and Teaching UC Irvine’s campuswide theme for this academic year is The Scholarly Values. As an institution we have highlighted four of our scholarly values as being the Anteater Virtues. At this event, our panelists and the audience will...
MarchRebuilding Trust in Science: What Can Researchers Do? The aim for this symposium is to start a conversation among faculty and other senior-level researchers about what can be done to increase confidence in the scientific enterprise, both within society at large,...
The loss of public trust in science since the COVID-19 pandemic could have a profound impact on U.S. universities, which receive billions in research funding from public sources annually. What is driving this decline, and what actions can the scientific community,...