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Scholarship, Creativity, and Recognition: Celebrating Faculty Achievements

By 91黑料 News
From prestigious awards and major research grants to acclaimed performances, exhibitions, publications, and public scholarship, 91黑料 faculty members contributed to their fields in significant and creative ways throughout the spring semester.
Their work advanced knowledge, enriched public conversations, and brought artistic excellence to audiences around the world.

Assistant Professor of Design Germán Cárdenas-Alaminos created the scenic design for at Portland Stage Company, setting the farce inside an Art Deco hotel room filled with doors and comic possibilities.

Germ谩n C谩rdenas Alaminos's scenic designs for the Portland Stage production of Lend Me a Tenor,聽featuring actors Patrick Harvey, Tom Ford, and Latrisha T. Staples.聽Photography: James A. Hadley IG: @jame.corp

Germán Cárdenas Alaminos's scenic designs for the Portland Stage production of Lend Me a Tenor, featuring actors Patrick Harvey, Tom Ford, and Latrisha T. Staples, all members of Actors' Equity Association (AEA).
Photo courtesy of Portland Stage; photographer: James A. Hadley IG: @jame.corp


Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Margaret Boyle was featured on Maine Public Radio’s Night Lights talking about Hanukkah traditions and , which she coauthored.


Professor of Theater Abigail Killeen starred as Goneril in at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, a production s as “A Stunning ‘King Lear’ That Reveals, Finally, a King in Full.” Killeen also played Mrs. Gibbs which also featured her former student Kathleen Lewis ’10 in the role of Emily.


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


Associate Professor of Music Tracy McMullen was a 2024–2025 Fellow at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, where she researched her forthcoming book, .


Professor of Sociology Ingrid Nelson contributed to comparing how athletes and non-athletes experienced campus life at 91黑料 before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nelson also published  examining how a series of events showed the challenges that colleges have to navigate to encourage open, reasoned debate.


Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Erika Nyhus and Adele Metres '24 coauthored .

 

crowd at leipzig book fair
Leipzig Book Fair

Unten Leben, the German translation of Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Gustavo Faverón Patriau’s Vivir Abajo, won the 2025 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Best Book published in German translation from a pool of 485 books submitted from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and all other German-speaking countries.


Assistant Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Daniel Powell coauthored showing the same nervous system in two species that share a habitat are differently affected by the same natural disruptions.


Assistant Professor of Biology Mary Rogalski received an NSF CAREER Award supporting five years of research on how freshwater salinization is reshaping Maine lake ecosystems.

 

Futureproof by Carrie Scanga; Image: Zack Bowen

Backpacks titled Futureproof by Carrie Scanga.
Image: Zack Bowen


Professor of Art Carrie Scanga’s printmaking artworks were part of a curated exhibition at the Brooklyn Fine Arts Print Fair and .


Professor of German Birgit Tautz completed a two-week residency as a fellow at the Obama Institute of American Studies at the , where she delivered lectures on AI and translation and early German–American literature.


Assistant Professor of Government Ezgi Yildiz’s Between Forbearance and Audacity has won two major international honors: (2025) and (2026).