Research, Recognition, and Reach: Faculty in the Spotlight
By Bowdoin News
Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek Barbara Weiden Boyd joined renowned translator Emily Wilson for the Pascal Hall Authors Series in Rockport, Maine, in July—a celebration of classical literature and scholarship.
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Margaret Boyle has been named a Brandeis JOTA Artist-Scholar Fellow for 2025–2026. The theme of the fall workshop and spring art exhibition is the dual meaning of spine—anatomical and that which unites the pages of a book.
Professor of Education Charles Dorn is serving on the organizing committee for an international conference, “Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945,” September 10–12, 2025, in Hanover, Germany.
The paper, "TRPML2 in Distinct States Reveals the Activation and Modulation Principles of the TRPML Family," by Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Michael Fine has been published in Nature Communications.

Earth and oceanographic sciences professor Michèle LaVigne’s research on the Gulf of Maine, funded by NSF and Maine Sea Grant, was recently spotlighted in AGU’s EoS. Her work reveals how warming waters may buffer ocean acidification—for now.