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Louis Newman, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, gave a presentation titled, “Teaching Our Students To Be Critical Thinkers” for the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison as part of their Community Conversations series.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, poems: “We Poets Must Have Something to Say,” “Trump’s Ear,” “Tell the Wind,” “Our Time,” “A Debt to Pay” have been published in Lost Lake Folk Opera magazine. Election Retro. Special Issue. Democracy Lunacy. Vol 9 (December 2024): 50-55.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, poems “Alternating Hibernal Variations on Haiku” and “Raspberry Buds and Purple Hair” were published in Willows Wept Review, Issue Thirty-Five, Winter 2025.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, poem, “blood on a country road,” is published in Kakalak 2024: Anthology of Poets & Artists. Harrisburg, North Carolina. Moonshine Review Press. 171.

Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, gave a talk titled, “Rebirth: Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World” at the India International Centre, New Delhi, sponsored by Tibet House India. Additionally, he had a podcast conversation about his recent book, Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness, with Tricycle editor James Shaheen as his interlocutor.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, won several awards at the League of Minnesota Poets’ Fall Conference, November 1-3, 2024. 1st Place Prize in Sassy Image Award for “As If, a Sonnet;” 3rd Place Prize in Stevens Family Award for “House Keeping”; 3rd Place Prize for Agates Award for “Boxed Crayons,” 2nd Honorable Mention in Steinography for “Thresholds;” and 2nd Honorary Mention in Mike Finley Humor Award for “Raspberry Sorbet.”

Joel Weisberg, Herman and Gertrude Mosier Stark Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Natural Sciences, Emeritus, and Alice Curtin ’19, along with a third scientist, published a paper titled, “Determining the Magnetic Field in the Galactic Plane from New Arecibo Pulsar Faraday Rotation Measurements” in The Astrophysical Journal.

Louis Newman, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, gave several presentations on how to teach critical thinking effectively and promote constructive discussion about controversial issues, based on his book, Thinking Critically in College. He spoke to faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by Bruce Lenthall ’90; at Villanova University, hosted by Andrew Bove ’94; and at Haverford College. He also spoke to groups of students at Villanova, Haverford, and the University of Virginia.

Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, published a book in Shambhala Publications’ Lives of the Masters series titled, Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness. Saraha was a 10th-century Indian Buddhist poet and yogi, well known for his trenchant social and religious critiques and his countervailing celebration of the pure, luminous, and blissful consciousness possessed by all beings.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, was awarded First Prize at the 75th Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, October 9, 2024, for her poem, Just Any Title Won’t Do.

Louis Newman, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, emeritus, published an article titled, “How to Help Your Students Succeed Academically in College,” which appeared in LINK For Counselors, a magazine for high school guidance counselors.

Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, gave a lecture via Zoom on “Buddhist Emptiness and Buddhist Truths” to students in a seminar on “Buddhist Emptiness” at Guilford College, in Greensboro, North Carolina. The professor of the seminar, Eric Mortensen ’93, was a member of a seminar on the same topic co-taught by Jackson and the late professor Bardwell Smith over thirty years ago at Carleton, and Mortensen continues the tradition at Guilford.