KU News Release

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Department of Philosophy honored seven students with awards and scholarships this spring.

Department faculty selected four seniors — Nicholas Gregory Mott, Matthew Tyler Steinle, James Bradley Krieger and Blaise Allen Cannon — each for an award funded by former KU professor Donald Brownstein. Recipients were chosen for their demonstration of outstanding analytical abilities and creativity.

Brownstein established the award fund in honor of longtime KU philosophy professors J. Michael Young, who died in 1995, and Arthur Skidmore III, who died in 2005. The philosophy department bestows the Brownstein-Young and Brownstein-Skidmore awards to its most promising juniors or rising seniors on the basis of faculty nominations.

Three seniors received a Warner Morse prize recognizing excellence in one of the three main areas of philosophy — ethics, metaphysics and epistemology — and history of philosophy. Warner Morse Prize recipients were Joel Robert Burnett, Lamar Hunt III and Samuel J. Littler. Each was selected by a committee on basis of faculty nomination for work in just one field of philosophy.

The scholarship honors Morse, who taught philosophy at KU for many years. He died in 1991.

The awards are managed by KU Endowment, the official fundraising and fund-management foundation for KU. Founded in 1891, KU Endowment was the first foundation of its kind at a U.S. public university.

Recipients are listed below by hometown, level in school, major, parents’ names, high school and award.

DOUGLAS COUNTY
From Lawrence 66049
Matthew Tyler Steinle, senior in classical languages and philosophy; son of Tarita Carpenter and Robert Steinle; Faith Academy; Brownstein-Young Award.

JOHNSON COUNTY
From Leawood 66211 and Overland Park 66211
Lamar Hunt III, senior in linguistics and philosophy; son of Lamar Hunt Jr. and Jocelyn Anderson; Saint Thomas Aquinas High School; Warner Morse Prize in Metaphysics and Epistemology.

From Overland Park 66213
Nicholas Gregory Mott, senior in philosophy and sociology; son of Gregory and Lisa Mott; Blue Valley Northwest High School; Brownstein-Young Award.

From Shawnee 66226 and Leavenworth
James Bradley Krieger, senior in philosophy and psychology, son of John Krieger and of Jaqueline Millin; Leavenworth Senior High School; Brownstein-Skidmore Award.

LEAVENWORTH COUNTY
From Leavenworth 66048 and Shawnee
James Bradley Krieger. SEE JOHNSON COUNTY

SEDGWICK COUNTY
From Wichita 67226
Samuel J. Littler, senior in human biology and philosophy; son of John and Karen Littler; Wichita Collegiate School; Warner Morse Prize in History of Philosophy.

MISSOURI
From Excelsior Springs 64024
Blaise Allen Cannon, senior in philosophy; son of Guy Cannon and Jean Moorefield; Excelsior Springs High School; Brownstein-Skidmore Award.

From Kansas City 64151
Joel Robert Burnett, spring 2010 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Spanish; son of Dak and Pat Burnett; Park Hill High School; Warner Morse Prize in Ethics.