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History professors Mackenzie Cooley, Celeste Day Moore, and Ty Seidule recently participated in the 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association.

Assistant Professor of Biology Ariel Kahrl, along with Max Girard ’24, and Lorin “Lainey” Groll ’25 recently presented at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) annual conference in Atlanta.

Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz presented a talk at Lafayette College in November, titled "Good Vibes: How to Take Apart a Resonator System Without Dismantling It." In her presentation, Horowitz explored techniques for studying mechanical parameters in resonator networks, with a focus on work she conducted in collaboration with Prof. Benjamín J. Alemán at the University of Oregon.

Students and faculty ended the fall semester strong as they published academic papers, presented research, and won prestigious awards.

Vincent Odamtten, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Literature, Creative Writing and Africana Studies, presented a talk titled "Africanfuturism vs Afrofuturism: Beyond Contrapuntal Immobility" at the African Studies Association 67th Annual Meeting in Chicago in December.

Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas recently published an essay about the use of mindfulness practices to relieve workplace stress in The Conversation, a non-profit open source news outlet focused on promoting faculty research.

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, delivered the keynote lecture at the 33rd Tagore Festival at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on Dec. 7.

Steven Yao, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English, gave an invited talk titled "The Work of Literary Translation in the Age of Digital Computability; or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Google Translate" in November at SUNY Buffalo.

Tiao-Guan Huang, visiting assistant professor of Chinese, was invited by Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages in Taiwan to deliver two lectures in November.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Emeritus, continues to publish papers and attend conferences following his retirement in the spring of 2023.