College of Liberal Arts and Sciences names David Stern Collegiate Fellow

Monday, April 8, 2013

Professor David SternCLAS Collegiate Fellow David Stern

David Stern, professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, has been named a Collegiate Fellow of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) in recognition of his distinguished teaching, research and service.

"The designation as Collegiate Fellow recognizes senior faculty whose excellence in teaching and scholarship is matched by exceptional leadership in service to the university, the college, and their departments," said CLAS Dean Chaden Djalali. "I am very pleased to recognize Professor Stern’s accomplishments and the distinction he brings to the College and University."

Collegiate Fellow awards are supported by a gift to the UI Foundation from the late R. F. and Maryon E. Ladwig and carry a discretionary fund to support the Fellow’s teaching and research.

David Stern is an internationally recognized authority on the history of 20th-century philosophy, and is best known for his scholarship on Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is the author of Wittgenstein on Mind and Language (1995) and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction (2004), as well as more than 40 journal articles and book chapters.  His co-edited volumes include The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (1996), which will be issued in a second edition next year.  His next book, Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933, From the Notes of G. E. Moore, will be published in 2015; digital images of the source materials will be published online.  One of the first faculty to teach in the University’s Information Arcade, his work in the digital humanities led him to serve on the American Philosophical Association’s “Philosophy and Computers” committee and to chair the University’s Information Technology Advisory Committee.  He is a past chair of his department, and has served on the College’s Promotion and Tenure Consulting Group and on the 2012-13 CLAS Self-study Committee. 

The UI acknowledges the UI Foundation as the preferred channel for private contributions that benefit all areas of the university. For more information about the foundation, visit www.uifoundation.org.

A complete list of the college’s 2012-13 faculty honorees is available at http://clas.uiowa.edu/faculty/faculty-honors-celebration-2013.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.