SUNBURY - Steven Seth Bordner received a doctorate in philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in December.
A native of Sunbury, he is a son of De Bordner, of New Columbia, and Steve Bordner, of Millersburg, and a grandson of Bernice and Raymond Bordner, of Dornsife, and Naomi and the late Francis "Jim" Mielke, of Trevorton.
Bordner, a 1997 graduate of Shikellamy High School, earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bloomsburg University and master's degrees from Virginia Tech (2003) and the University of California at Irvine.
He will be an adjunct professor this summer at Yale University and an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama starting in the fall.