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Professor of Philosophy Eric Palmer was elected president of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) at the 30th anniversary IDEA Congress in San Jose, Costa Rica, in July. At the meeting he presented the paper “Vulnerable due to hope: aspiration paradox as a cross-cultural concern.” Palmer engaged in library research in Europe using funds from a GLCA New Directions grant earlier this summer. He also presented at the 20th anniversary meetings of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science on work that is forthcoming as “Less Radical Enlightenment: A Christian Wing of the French Enlightenment,” in Steffen Ducheyne, ed., The Ashgate Research Companion to the Radical Enlightenment (UK: Ashgate, anticipated 2016). Working with Fred Gifford of Michigan State University, he has been awarded a federal grant to develop a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers on Development Ethics and Global Justice: Gender, Economics and Environment. The four-week institute, which will occur in 2015 at Michigan State, follows upon a similar institute developed by the two directors for summer 2013. Palmer continues for a second year alongside Sirkku Hellsten as editor of Journal of Global Ethics.