Ronald Mawby is a professor in the Whitney Young School of Honors and Liberal Studies at KSU. He holds a PhD in cognitive and developmental psychology from Clark University, a MA from Clark University, and a BA from St. John's College. He worked in educational research and artificial intelligence before coming to the "great books" Honors Program at KSU, where he teaches mathematics, natural and social science, literature, and philosophy. His intellectual interests are wide and he has published in both the sciences and the humanities. He has served as an interim co-representative to the Kentucky University Partnership for Environmental Education. Environmental issues are included in his courses on professional ethics and on ethics and leadership. Mawby has a special interest in the multiple, and sometimes conflicting, concepts of nature used in environmental studies. Tom McPartland is director of the Whitney Young School of Honors and Liberal Studies at KSU. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD in intellectual history from the University of Washington, integrating work in the fields of philosophy, history, classics, and bio-medical history. Before coming to KSU he taught in both philosophy and history departments. McPartland has taught in the seminar, language, and math/science components of the Honors Program, focusing recently on core math/science courses and on a seminar dealing with ideas of nature. He has taught special topic seminars on the philosophy of law, the history of revolutions, African history and culture, and Lonergan's Insight. He has delivered numerous papers and published articles and a book on the ideas of Bernard Lonergan, whose philosophy emphasizes the normative significance of the process of questioning, an approach at the heart of the seminar-based learning of the Honors Program. He was elected KSU's Distinguished Professor of 2002-03. Kirk Pomper is a principal investigator of horticulture and curator of the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository for pawpaw species in the KSU Land Grant Program. He holds a PhD in horticulture from Oregon State University, and MS and BS degrees in horticulture from the University of Minnesota. His research has focused on evaluating genetic diversity of pawpaw across its native range in the southeastern United States using DNA-based marker systems. As manager of KSU's Core Molecular Genetics Facility he has cooperated on projects including the evaluation of genetic diversity in

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