Assistant Professor of Design Germán Cárdenas-Alaminos created the scenic design for Lend Me a Tenor at Portland Stage Company, setting the farce inside an Art Deco hotel room filled with doors and comic possibilities.
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 Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook, which she coauthored.
Professor of Theater Abigail Killeen starred as Goneril in King Lear at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, a production praised by The New York Times as “A Stunning ‘King Lear’ That Reveals, Finally, a King in Full.” Killeen also played Mrs. Gibbs in the Portland Stage Company production of Our Town, 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, The Courage to Hear: Jazz Traditions and the Price of the Ticket.
Professor of Sociology Ingrid Nelson contributed to a study published in The Sociological Quarterly comparing how athletes and non-athletes experienced campus life at Bowdoin before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nelson also published an article in The Conversation 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 a review article examining the effects of mindfulness meditation on memory.
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 new research published in the Journal of Applied Physiology 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.
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 favorably reviewed in The Wall Street Journal.
Professor of German Birgit Tautz completed a two-week residency as a fellow at the Obama Institute of American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, 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: the American Political Science Association’s Best Human Rights Book Award (2025) and the International Studies Association’s Best Book in International Law Award (2026).
