Spotlight: Cheryl Cottine wins award at Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Cheryl Cottine, center, with Stuart Yoak, executive director of the Association for Practical Ethics, and Vivian Weil, the president of the association's board
Cheryl Cottine, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religious Studies, Ethics Bowl coach and research assistant at the Poynter Center, received one of three Graduate Student Prizes in Practical and Professional Ethics at the 22nd annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics.
Cottine's presentation, "Reconceptualizing Professional Roles," suggests that current definitions of professional roles are inadequate to capture the complexity of the moral life and the place of our professions within it. Cottine argues that while it is important to attend to professional codes of conduct, it is equally important to attend to virtue cultivation and role models.
