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Lecturer of Creative Writing Amanda Hodes was awarded the for environmental writing from the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, where she  recently completed a summer writing residency and reading. Hodes also published her poem "Dark Tourism" in (52.2), and her collaborative digital poem "Spinning Walks" was exhibited in the Electronic Literature Organization Conference's annual exhibition from July 11-13 in Toronto, ON.

The article “When Science Collides with Society: The Role of Scientific Illiteracy in the Trans Panic,” by third-year student Sunny Hunt, appears in the 2025 issue of . Developed and revised under the guidance of Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Nathan DeProspo in his spring 2024 WRCM 101 course, the piece is, according to the editor, “a refreshingly personal essay that argues anti-trans moralism is built upon—and perpetuates—scientific illiteracy and misinformation.”

, edited by Professor of Musicology Charles Edward McGuire, was released by the Belgian publishing company Brepols. McGuire also wrote an essay in the collection about British musical competitions that were patterned on and attempted to reject the Welsh Eisteddfod.

Assistant Professor of Politics Joshua Freedman attended the “Images of Order” book-in-progress workshop at the .

Conservatory Library Head Kathy Abromeit completed a three-year term as national chair of the Music Library Association’s Black Music Collections Interest Group.

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Will Parsons coauthored the article “,” which was published in Synlett. His coauthors were Jo Chvatal ’24, Dat Nguyen ’24, and Alex Xie ’26.

Professor of Psychology Nancy Darling presented her research on adolescents’ medical adherence at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and Utrecht University in the Nehterlands. Related work by Darling and students Lorna Luo, Sophia Carter, and Nam Nguyen will be presented at the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood in June.

Professor of Psychology and Environmental Studies Cindy Frantz was quoted in the National Geographic article “.”

Emeritus Professor of English Sandra Zagarell led a class on American regionalism at Tulane University in April 2025. Zagarell virtually presented the paper “Jewett's Complicated Sympathy” at the Jewett Unbound conference in Paris in October 2024.

Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager accepted the 2024 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History from the 9th Duke of Wellington at the Royal United Services Institute in recognition of The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia as the best book in English on military history in 2024.