Chakrabarti selected as visiting scholar

Chandana Chakrabarti, associate professor of religion, has been invited to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University as a visiting scholar for Fall semester 2004. She will work with Prof. Piet Hut, an astrophysicist, and her main work will concentrate on theories of Quantum Consciousness and conventional quantum mechanics.

Chakrabarti has also been invited to Stanford University for Spring semester 2005. She will work with Prof. Dagfinn Follesdal,C.I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy. She plans to continue her research on Intentionality and Subjectivity in relation to Quantum Consciousness theory at Stanford.

Chakrabarti is planning to apply for sabbatical leave to join these two positions next year.