Scholarship in Action

Jun 25, 2026

Faculty and staff excellence recognized聽

Featuring: Carrie Diaz Eaton Emily W. Kane

Jun 25, 2026

Slideshow: This Month at 乐播传媒

Featuring: Erin H. Nolan Stephanie Kelley-Romano Garry W. Jenkins

Jun 24, 2026

So sweet: 2026 Green Grant awardees tap funds for 乐播传媒-made maple syrup

Featuring: Michael Rocque

Jun 23, 2026

Dylan Freas receives funding from the American Chemical Society

Featuring: Dylan J. Freas

Jun 23, 2026

Tristan Koepke receives funding from the Maine Humanities Council

Featuring: Tristan E. Koepke

Jun 23, 2026

Ifrah Shahi receives NIH Maine INBRE Research Award

Featuring: Ifrah Shahi

Jun 18, 2026

Exiting through the gift shop via Short Term course

Featuring: Erin H. Nolan

Jun 18, 2026

In the News this spring: Faculty, staff, and students聽

Featuring: Mara C. Tieken Jonathan J. Cavallero Elena G. Maker Castro

Jun 17, 2026

After decades of partnership, 乐播传媒 supports new Maine MILL building with naming gift

Featuring: Darby K. Ray Joseph M. Hall Jr. Marcelle M. Medford

May 29, 2026

Q&A: Senior speaker Sebenele Lukhele embraces 乐播传媒鈥� promise of celebrating differences

Featuring: Scotty Farley

May 29, 2026

Two 乐播传媒 Faculty named Fulbright Fellows

Featuring: Michel Droge Elena G. Maker Castro

May 1, 2026

A Short Term long on learning: Explore wide-ranging course offerings

Featuring: Brecia A. Despard Mary T Rice Defosse Shreya Arora Lucy C. Britt Frances R Bell Amanda R. Lindsay Susan A. Dewsnap

Apr 30, 2026

Two English faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Featuring: Jessica L. Anthony Myronn E. Hardy

Apr 21, 2026

Explore the breadth of student research at Mount David Summit

Featuring: Stephanie Kelley-Romano

Apr 21, 2026

Shankar Vedantam offers fireside chat on dialogue across differences

Featuring: Elena G. Maker Castro Charles I. Nero

Apr 16, 2026

Geneva Laurita receives Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award

Featuring: Geneva Laurita

Associate Professor Carrie Diaz Eaton teaches in front of a chalkboard

Apr 16, 2026

Carrie Diaz Eaton receives continued funding from Hewlett Foundation

Featuring: Carrie Diaz Eaton

Apr 9, 2026

In upcoming thesis exhibition, 乐播传媒 senior studio art students each have a seat At the Table

Featuring: Carolina Gonz谩lez Valencia Michel Droge

Mar 26, 2026

Everyone is a star in ‘Everybody’

Featuring: Timothy J. Dugan Jr. Courtney P. Smith

Mar 26, 2026

Yun Garrison wins Lee Young Leadership Award from YWCA

Featuring: Yunkyoung Garrison

Mar 26, 2026

鈥楨qually at home everywhere鈥�: Brett Karpf 鈥�26 wins Watson Fellowship

Featuring: Andrew M. Mountcastle Sanford A. Freedman

Feb 26, 2026

乐播传媒 professor, students study ancient climate with Arctic sediment cores

Featuring: Nick Balascio

Feb 12, 2026

In the News: February 2026

Featuring: Yunkyoung Garrison Mara C. Tieken

Feb 12, 2026

Meet new faculty in physics, economics, and earth and climate sciences

Featuring: Wesley C. Gillis Eugene S. Choo Charlotte H. Connop

Jan 29, 2026

Nick Balascio receives National Science Foundation grant

Featuring: Nick Balascio

Dec 19, 2025

New funding pushes Carolina Gonz谩lez Valencia’s film toward the finish line

Featuring: Carolina Gonz谩lez Valencia

Dec 18, 2025

Photographers’ favorites 2025: Behind the viewfinder

Featuring: Heidi L. Taylor

Two first-year seminar classes join together for a dynamic, interdisciplinary final class session During the last week of courses for the fall semester, two instructors, two classes, and one rabbit gathered together for an interdisciplinary, interactive first-year seminar class session. It was easy to tell who was from which course. Students from 鈥淏eyond the Rainbow: Exploring the Language (and the Science, Art, and Culture) of Color鈥� had all walked in sporting colorful hats. Joining them in a classroom in Dana Hall were students from 鈥淪ex in the Brain: The Neuroscience of Sex, Gender, and Hormones.鈥� While it is typical for students to grow close in these small 鈥� 16 students maximum 鈥� seminars, this merging of the courses for a class session was a new idea, meant to create new connections between both the subjects and students as the semester came to a close. Lindsey Hamilton 鈥�05, director of the Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning, and Wells Castonguay, the center鈥檚 assistant director, devised the plan. Castonguay was teaching 鈥淏eyond the Rainbow鈥� and Hamilton 鈥淪ex in the Brain.鈥� Throughout the semester, each professor had heard students鈥� ongoing curiosity about the other鈥檚 course and saw an opportunity for the students to learn from each other.

Dec 18, 2025

Two instructors, 30 first-year students, and a bunny walk into a classroom: Interdisciplinary learning abounds

Featuring: Wells Castonguay Lindsey R. Hamilton Ph.D.

They are jumping for joy. Women鈥檚 varsity rowing teammates Oli Seline 鈥�24 (left) of Delaware, Ohio, and Olivia Dekker 鈥�24 of Bethesda, Md., high five it at the conclusion of their last-ever 乐播传媒 lab in Bonney 360. The teammates are students in Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Geneva Laurita鈥檚 Short Term course, 鈥淐hemistry and the Arts.鈥� Seline is a biochemistry major with a GEC in 鈥淰isible Ideas,鈥� while Dekker is a biochemistry major with a minor in art and visual culture. The course explores the connection between chemistry and various topics in the arts and arts-related fields. The students learn about the chemistry behind these topics, exploring the literature behind various artistic practices, and applying hands-on techniques in the laboratory involved in various art processes This year, Laurita asked students to focus on the origins of color, different crafts, print making, jewelry making, dyeing, and art conservation. Laurita is the recipient of a major National Science Foundation grant of $581,984. The NSF CAREER award, considered to be one of the foundation鈥檚 most prestigious awards for faculty members who are just beginning their teaching and research careers, is based on both her scientific research in solid state materials and how she brings undergraduates into that vital area of scientific exploration. 3:18 What the particular lab was about...the lab handout. Kate Baumler, intern for Geneva鈥檚 NSF grant, wearing, black shirt Benji Richards, 鈥�27, wearing tan shirt Finian Gunny 鈥�27, gray pullover and blond hair Charlotte Maffie 鈥�25 with pink tie dyed and hair in bun Sister Alice Maffie 鈥�27 in t-shirt and pony tail Nina Greeley 鈥�24 with hair in bun and pink t-shirt Riley Lund 鈥�26 in gray sweatshirt Jahan Baker-Wainwright 鈥�25 in green golf Rohini Kandasamy 鈥�27 in dark tan Life is cool t-shirt and low bun Chemistry and the Arts S28, the origin of different crafts, print making, jewelry making, dyeing and art soncserv

Dec 11, 2025

Faculty member Geneva Laurita wins national teaching award

Featuring: Geneva Laurita

Dec 4, 2025

Everybody in the pool: The making of Metamorphoses

Featuring: Courtney P. Smith Sally M. Wood

Dec 4, 2025

In the News: December 2025

Featuring: Francesco G. Duina Matt Coyne Darby K. Ray Kamal A. Kariem

Nov 13, 2025

The logics of acceptance: Francesco Duina in conversation about his new book and the sociology of economic inequality

Featuring: Francesco G. Duina

Nov 13, 2025

Purposeful Work biopharmaceutical roadshow introduces students to dynamic career possibilities

Featuring: April L. Horton

Oct 30, 2025

Meet new faculty in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetoric

Featuring: Scotty Farley Halla A. Attallah Lauren L. Buisker

Oct 30, 2025

Clarisa P茅rez-Armend谩riz, professor of politics, receives Kroepsch Award

Featuring: Clarisa P茅rez-Armend谩riz

Oct 10, 2025

Meet new faculty in psychology, environmental studies, and anthropology

Featuring: Ellen F. Finch Christine M. Martinez Kamal A. Kariem

Drone photography operated and captured by Theophil Syslo on October 10, 2024. (Theophil Syslo | 乐播传媒 College)

Oct 10, 2025

In the News: Oct. 10, 2025

Featuring: Stephanie Kelley-Romano

Oct 8, 2025

Asha Tamirisa receives LEF Foundation award

Featuring: Asha K. Tamirisa

Oct 7, 2025

Justin Baumann awarded funding from Maine EPSCoR

Featuring: Justin H. Baumann

Oct 6, 2025

Eric LeFlore awarded funding for Bobcat research

Featuring: Eric G. LeFlore

Oct 6, 2025

Yun Garrison receives American Psychological Foundation award

Featuring: Yunkyoung Garrison

Oct 6, 2025

Jason Castro receives NIH INBRE pilot funding

Featuring: Jason B. Castro

Oct 6, 2025

Sandra Goff receives NSF HEGS funding

Featuring: Sandra H. Goff

Oct 6, 2025

Ryan Cole receives NSF EMBRACE grant

Featuring: Ryan K. Cole

Oct 2, 2025

Meet new 乐播传媒 faculty from physics and astronomy, classical and medieval studies, and mathematics

Featuring: Sarah A. Conley Emma Ianni Cigole Thomas

Sep 25, 2025

Meet new 乐播传媒 faculty in biology, environmental studies, and religious studies

Featuring: Ifrah Shahi Anderson Moss-Weaver Robin B. McDowell

Sep 19, 2025

The importance of the liberal arts: President Garry W. Jenkins in conversation with the Maine Trust for Local News

Featuring: Garry W. Jenkins

Sep 19, 2025

Associate Professor of Economics Sandra Goff receives NSF grant to study how, why landowners conserve their properties

Featuring: Sandra H. Goff

Sep 4, 2025

Pulling mussels: 乐播传媒 researchers spend the summer studying Maine鈥檚 disappearing shellfish

Featuring: Justin H. Baumann

Opening Convocation at 11 a.m. Sept. 2, 2025, on the Historic Quad, followed by In Memoriam: Tree Planting Service. Processional Welcome by President Garry Jenkins Mace Bearer Mary T. Rice=DeFosse Greetings by Zach Richards 鈥�26 and Mohammad Zayd 鈥�27, Co-Presidents Convocation Address 鈥淎 College for Coming Times鈥� Rebecca Herzig, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Benediction Raymond Clothier, Interim Multifaith Chaplain Memorial Tree Planting Alongside Gomes Chapel on College Street, in memory of those in the 乐播传媒 community who died during the past year. The tree was designated with a yellow bow.

Sep 4, 2025

With messages on the power of pluralism and hope, Convocation welcomes new students to 乐播传媒

Featuring: Garry W. Jenkins Rebecca Herzig

Aug 5, 2025

President Garry W. Jenkins wins Maine Black Excellence Compass Career Award

Featuring: Garry W. Jenkins

Jun 27, 2025

Harward Center wraps up 2024鈥�25 year with grants, awards honoring community engagement

Featuring: Amy Bradfield Douglass Darby K. Ray

Jun 26, 2025

Outside-the-box 乐播传媒ies: Meet five DIY students who created their own majors

Featuring: Jamie A. Haverkamp

Jun 25, 2025

At 乐播传媒, a ginkgo seedling carries survival from 1945 Hiroshima to today

Featuring: Keiko Konoeda Hanna S. McGaughey Daniel Slane

Jun 17, 2025

Slideshow: This Month at 乐播传媒

Featuring: Mary T Rice Defosse

Jun 9, 2025

乐播传媒 College announces senior leadership transitions

Featuring: Garry W. Jenkins

May 22, 2025

Double gold: Two 乐播传媒 STEM standouts earn prestigious Goldwater Scholarships聽

Featuring: Jennifer L. Koviach-C么t茅 Daniel Slane April L. Horton Larissa M. Williams

May 13, 2025

乐播传媒 announces faculty promotions, including tenure awards, for 2025

Featuring: Ian Khara Ellasante Myronn E. Hardy Asha K. Tamirisa Lauren M. Ashwell Carrie Diaz Eaton Clarisa P茅rez-Armend谩riz Mara C. Tieken Larissa M. Williams Jessica L. Anthony Laura C. Balladur

May 9, 2025

乐播传媒 Faculty in the News: Ther铆 Pickens’ debut poetry collection gains media attention and sparks a busy spring, on and off campus

Featuring: Ther铆 Pickens

Apr 25, 2025

乐播传媒 Faculty in the News: April 25, 2025

Featuring: Carolina Gonz谩lez Valencia Mara C. Tieken Asha K. Tamirisa Carrie Diaz Eaton Paul E. Schofield

Apr 23, 2025

Joanne Roberts to join 乐播传媒 as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

Featuring: Joanne K. Roberts

Apr 11, 2025

A day in the life of a ‘helluva building,’ Ladd Library at 乐播传媒 College

Featuring: Ther铆 Pickens Jennifer A. Hamilton Daniel Slane Liana J Brent Krista M. Aronson Austin C. Smith

Apr 10, 2025

LeFlore studies lion movements in Botswana to understand the keys to their survival

Featuring: Eric G. LeFlore

Apr 8, 2025

乐播传媒鈥� newest major, digital and computational studies, blends computer science with critique, community engagement

Featuring: Barry G Lawson Anelise H. Shrout Carrie Diaz Eaton Andy E. Ricci Jason B. Castro

Mar 27, 2025

Mark Lewis Tizzoni examines early Christian communities in Roman Africa in a new paper

Featuring: Mark L. Tizzoni

Mar 14, 2025

Picture Story: Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull,’ between avant-garde and traditional

Featuring: Katalin Vecsey

Feb 27, 2025

乐播传媒 College transitions endowment management to Investure

Featuring: Garry W. Jenkins

Feb 25, 2025

乐播传媒 named a Fulbright Top Producer for 14th straight year

Featuring: Beverly J. Johnson

Feb 13, 2025

Keiko Konoeda鈥檚 new work examines how a sense of competence or incompetence impacts engagement in digital storytelling

Featuring: Keiko Konoeda

Ryan Bavis, 乐播传媒 Helen A. Papaioanou Professor of Biological Sciences, posing in his Bonney Science Center laboratory and office. Bavis is collaborating with his friend and colleague Peter MacFarlane, assistant professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine on their discovery of a novel animal model mimicking sudden infant death syndrome. Last year, the National Institutes of Health awarded the scientists a $2.8 million grant to study the model over five years. MacFarlane is the project鈥檚 principal investigator, and $307,495 is allocated to 乐播传媒. Dr. Richard Martin of Rainbow Babies and Children鈥檚 Hospital and professor at CWRU鈥檚 School of Medicine is also a co-investigator on the project.

Feb 5, 2025

Two scientists, a friendship, and a problem to solve: Ryan Bavis, Peter MacFarlane receive $2.8 million NIH grant to study sudden infant death syndrome

Featuring: Ryan W. Bavis

Feb 4, 2025

Slideshow: This Month at 乐播传媒

Featuring: Sally M. Wood Jakub J. Kazecki Mara C. Tieken Ryan W. Bavis Stephanie M. Pridgeon Frances R Bell

Feb 3, 2025

Mara Tieken

Featuring: Mara C. Tieken

Jan 24, 2025

MLK Day keynote: Why nonviolent protest has become less successful (when it might be needed most)

Featuring: Tyler A Harper

Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken, winner of the 2024 Kroepsch Teaching Award, teaches students in her course 鈥淓DUC 231 - Perspectives on Education鈥� in Pettigrew 30 on January 16, 2025. EDUC 231 - Perspectives on Education This course introduces students to foundational perspectives (anthropological, historical, philosophical, psychological, and sociological) on education and helps students apply these perspectives to contemporary schools and classrooms. The course considers several large questions: What should be the purpose of education in a democratic society? What should be the role of the school? Who should participate in making decisions about schools? In what ways do schools reflect and perpetuate larger social inequities, and, alternately, how can they contribute to a more just and inclusive society? Students must complete at least thirty hours of fieldwork.

Jan 24, 2025

Teaching teachers: Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken receives 2024 Kroepsch Award for excellence in teaching

Featuring: Mara C. Tieken

7鈥�8pm | MLK Day Spoken Word Festival Presentation: The Multifaith Chaplaincy celebrates the voices that propelled the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with performances from poets, spoken word artists, and musicians. The second annual MLK Day Spoken Word festival brings together powerful poetry and soulful song around the theme 鈥淏ending Toward Justice: Peace and Nonviolence.鈥� Featured artists for the evening are acclaimed poet and co-executive director of Maine Inside Out, Joseph Jackson, and beloved singer Kenya Hall whom Rolling Stone dubbed a 鈥渟oul powerhouse.鈥� Students Misaki Fukushima 鈥�25, Ahmednoor Hassan 鈥�27, Bora Lugunda 鈥�25, and Oleksii Sverbyvus 鈥�28 will also perform pieces at the festival. Location: Gomes Chapel Program Welcome: Raymond Clothier Spoken Word: Joseph Jackson Music Kenya Hall Poetry: Oleksii Sverbyvus 鈥�28 Poetry/Dance Misaki Fukushima 鈥�25 Spoken Word: Ahmednoor Hassan 鈥�27 Poetry: Bora Laguna 鈥�25 Spoken Word: Joseph Jackson Music: Kenya Hall

Jan 24, 2025

Slideshow: Hour by hour on MLK Day 2025 with 乐播传媒 faculty, staff, students, and friends

Featuring: Charles I. Nero Joyce N. Bennett

Jan 23, 2025

乐播传媒 College to team with QuestBridge to enhance access and experience for low-income students

Featuring: Garry W. Jenkins

Jan 16, 2025

Nathan Lundblad

Featuring: Nathan E. Lundblad

Jan 9, 2025

Jonathan Cavallero鈥檚 new work examines the impact of race and gender on television directors.

Featuring: Jonathan J. Cavallero

Dec 6, 2024

Faculty in the News: Michael Sargent’s research spotlighted on Hidden Brain

Featuring: Michael Sargent

Fall foliage on the 乐播传媒 campus Historic Quad, Hathorn Hall

Nov 21, 2024

乐播传媒 announces nine faculty appointments to endowed professorships

Featuring: Lillian R. Nayder Paul J. Shea Ther铆 Pickens Beverly J. Johnson Francesco G. Duina Sonja K. Pieck Peter N. Wong Daniel Riera-Crichton Amy Bradfield Douglass