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Senior Writer and �鶹��Ƶ Alumni Magazine Editor Annie Zaleski authored the book , which cracked bestseller lists for both The New York Times and USA Today in December 2024. Also in December, Zaleski was named one of Cleveland Magazine’s Most Interesting People for 2025. A versatile journalist steeped in rock music writing, Zaleski has authored well-received books on Lady Gaga, Duran Duran, and Harry Styles. Learn more about her on the and at �鶹��Ƶ.edu.

Associate Dean for Intercultural Engagement Josh Whitson begins term as Chair Designate for NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen has published an article in ACS Catalysis, "." Coauthors include Gabriel Negrao de Morais ’25 as well as collaborators from Yale University.

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Jillian Scudder published a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society titled "". This paper was in collaboration with two �鶹��Ƶ student coauthors, and found that a subset of methods to estimate the chemical composition of gas in nearby galaxies are biased to high values if they are found near a region of the galaxy dominated by light coming from a source other than young stars.

Assistant Professor of Dance Al Evangelista performed in New York City’s  with alum, Nikaio Thomashow ’18. Together, they debuted Echoes, Professor Evangelista’s newest dance theater work incorporating augmented reality, dance, and motion capture to explore themes of history and queerness.

Visiting Assistant Professor Katie Berta published three new poems from a manuscript in progress in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of the Colorado Review and a poem from her book, Retribution Forthcoming, in Verse Daily. was published by Ohio University Press in March.

On December 2, Associate Professor of Art History Matthew Rarey delivered the Distinguished Alumni Lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Art History, where he earned his PhD in 2014. Rarey's lecture, "Renaming the Fetish in the Eighteenth-Century African Atlantic," was simulcast on Zoom and is publicly available on the .

Associate Professor of Art History Matthew Rarey published his essay, "" in a special issue of Arts dedicated to “Black Artists in the Atlantic World." The essay is available open-access and under a Creative Commons license.

Caroline Val of interviewed Yveline Alexis for an article about the impact of anti-Haitian rhetoric.

Associate Professor of �鶹��Ƶ Sergio Gutierrez Negron cofounded the small literary press . The inaugural Fall 2024 catalog includes a memoir about Montserrat’s volcanic explosion in the 1990s written by author Yvonne Weekes; a novel by a 25 year-old Puerto Rican novelist, Daniel Rosa Hunter; and a literary travelogue by Mexican writer, Luis Felipe Lomelí. La pequeña will publish three books a year, spanning Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and Latin American literature.