In The News

Dan Bruggeman, Senior Lecturer in Art, Emeritus, has a new exhibition, The Heavens, of landscape artwork being hosted by The Groveland Gallery. The opening reception will be on Saturday, October 22, from 2-5 p.m. The exhibition continues through November 26.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, has published in the fall issue of Willows Wept Review, 2022, a sonnet “Drowned” and a dramatic monologue, “Funereal Practice: Or Are You Sure This is What You Had in Mind?”

Jack Goldfeather, William H. Laird Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus, was an invited keynote speaker at the Pixel-Planes@40 Conference on “Massive Data Parallelism for Graphics and the AI Age,” last month.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, has been published in the summer issue of Lost Lake Folk Opera. A prose piece and several poems—“Elvis is in the Building or How I Moved My Mother to Minnesota,” “Our Country ‘Tis,” “On the Prairie,” “A Congress of Crows,” “The Groove,”—appear in a special focus section: Seven Authors & Poets from the Literary Renaissance Taking Place in Northfield, Minnesota. The other featured Northfield writers are Heather Candels, D.E. Green, Rob Hardy (Research Associate in Classics), Julie Ryan, Steve McCown, and Larry Gavin.

Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, recently served as a respondent on a Tsadra Foundation-sponsored panel on professor José Cabezón’s research project, “The Synoptic Literature of Late Indian Buddhism.”

Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, was interviewed about his recent book, Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World, on the podcast “New Books in Indian Religions,” hosted by Dr. Raj Balkaran.

Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, recently completed teaching two multi-week courses: “Meditations on Emptiness,” for Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon, and “Seeing and Sealing the Nature of Mind: A Workshop on Mahāmudrā,” for the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Barre, Massachusetts. He also discussed his recent book, Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World,  with the staff of Shambhala Publications and was a guest on the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast.

Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, read a selection of her poetry April 24 at the Red Wings Art Depot in one of several events associated with the 21st Annual Poet-Artist Collaboration. Her poem, “Infinitude of Regret,” appears in their published chapbook. The official presentation of poems and artwork was celebrated April 29th at the St. James Hotel. Two of her other poems, “Winter Guard” and “Last Dandelion in Town,” have just been published in Moss Puppy Magazine. Issue 2 (Spring 2022) pp 64, 65. Available in print: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZFBPY56.

Louis Newman, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, has signed a contract with Radius Book Group to publish his book, How to Think Like a College Student: The Academic Skills You Need to Succeed. The idea for the book was prompted by a conversation with a student in one of his classes 10 years ago, before he departed Carleton for his current position as dean of academic advising at Stanford University.