Scholarship, Creativity, and Recognition: Celebrating College Achievements

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Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Margaret Boyle was featured on Maine Public Radio’s Night Lights speaking about Hanukkah traditions and Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook, which she coauthored.

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Professor of Theater Abigail Killeen starred as Goneril in King Lear at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, a manufacturing praised by The New York Times as “A Stunning ‘King Lear’ That Reveals, Finally, a King in Full.” Killeen additionally performed Mrs. Gibbs in the Portland Stage Company production of Our Town, which additionally featured her former pupil Kathleen Lewis ’10 within the function of Emily.

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Works from Professor of Art Michael Kolster’s Mongrels of Our Making: The Plastiglomerates of Hawai’i have been a part of a images and college exhibition at Boston’s Photographic Resource Center. Kolster’s Mongrels of Our Making and L.A. River have been included in New York City’s International Center of Photography’s 2026 BookFest.

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Associate Professor of Music Tracy McMullen was a 2024–2025 Fellow at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the place she researched her forthcoming e-book, The Courage to Hear: Jazz Traditions and the Price of the Ticket.

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Professor of Sociology Ingrid Nelson contributed to a study published in The Sociological Quarterly evaluating how athletes and non-athletes skilled campus life at Bowdoin earlier than and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Nelson additionally printed an article in The Conversation inspecting how a sequence of occasions confirmed the challenges that faculties need to navigate to encourage open, reasoned debate.

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Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Erika Nyhus and Adele Metres ’24 coauthored a review article examining the effects of mindfulness meditation on memory.