One of the distinguished graduates of our classical philosophy program, Kirk Sanders, who is currently Assistant Professor of Classics (with a secondary appointment in Philosophy) at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, has accepted a joint appointment in the Departments of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  (Next year, he will be a Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, so won’t begin teaching at Illinois until fall 2006.)