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Yveline Alexis was invited to Yale University for conference to present on Caribbean Studies and social justice. She, along with scholars from Jamaica, Antigua, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Belize, and Trinidad & Tobago discussed digitizing projects like Irish slaveowners in Cuba, the presence and destruction of colonial records, and how Caribbeans archive their stories.

David Forrest's book, (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), has been named a 2023 "Outstanding Academic Title" by .

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has recently published three articles with 91ֱ�� student coauthors. “Chemoselective Quinoline and Isoquinoline Reduction by Energy Transfer Catalysis Enabled Hydrogen Atom Transfer” was published in  with Kyogo Nagashima ’24 and collaborators from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. “Pd/IPrBIDEA-Catalyzed Hydrodefluorination of gem-Difluorocyclopropanes: Regioselective Synthesis of Terminal Fluoroalkenes,” appeared in the  with Zachary Cheng ’25 and collaborators from Renmin University of China. Most recently, “Nitrene-Mediated Enantioselective Intramolecular Olefin Oxyamination to Access Chiral γ-Aminomethyl-γ-Lactones,” was published in  with Clayton Ritter ’23 and collaborators in Marburg, Germany.

On November 11, Professor of Music Theory Jan Miyake started her two-year term as President of the .

Professor of Physics Jason Stalnaker and 91ֱ�� students Eduardo Castro Muñoz ’23 and Ehsan Nikfar ’25 have coauthored a paper in on a search for magnetic signatures of hidden-photon and axion dark matter in the wilderness. The article is being highlighted by the journal as an Editors’ Suggestion.

Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand has published a new article in a volume of collected essays dealing with notions of temporality in ancient Greek and Latin literature. Ormand's essay, titled " 'But Now': The Temporality of Archaic Greek Invective" appears in from Routledge Press, pp. 121-139. The volume is edited by Kate Gilhuly and Jeffrey Ulrich.

Professor of German Steven Huff has recently published a book chapter titled "Amnesia, Chaos, Trauma: Kleist's Memory Games" in Memory in German Romanticism: Imagination, Image, Reception. Ed. Christopher R. Clason et al. London: Routledge, 2023. Chap. 1, 23-47.

Public Books and Dr. Marlene Daut commissioned Yveline Alexis to write an essay, which she named, "." The work explores themes between Drs. Grace Sanders Johnson and Takkara K. Brunson's books about feminism, black political organizing, and our multilingual archives.

Professor Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine recently attended the Arab American Book Awards ceremony at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, on Saturday, November 11, where he received the 2023 Evelyn Shakir Creative Nonfiction Award for his coedited anthology . Hadha Baladuna explores the diverse range of the Arab diaspora in the Detroit metro area.

Jackie Zubin was awarded the Dorothy Brickman Award for Outstanding New Professional last week at the NAFSA Association of International Educators Region VI conference in Lexington, KY. This award is presented to an outstanding individual who has made significant contributions to their campus, regional organization, and the field of international education.