Kudos (Summer 2025)
Featured Faculty
Professor of Biology Scott Boback’s work on Project RattleCam has been highlighted by USA Today, People, Men’s Journal, Fox Weather, KUNC-FM public radio, KUAD-FM, The Sentinel Colorado, The Travel and The Journal of Cortez, Colo. His previous work on how rattlesnakes crush their prey was featured in BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Broadway World carried news of Professor of Music Jennifer Blyth serving as a judge for this year’s Hershey Symphony Young Artist Competition.
Associate Professor of History Say Burgin was mentioned in a story in The Sentinel about her student Ben Warren ’25’s research on the history of housing discrimination in Carlisle. She was also featured in a piece in ART News about cuts to National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships by the Trump administration.
The Financial Times published a thorough and positive review of Professor of History and Benjamin Rush Chair in the Liberal Arts & Sciences David Commins’ book Saudi Arabia, A Modern History.
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies Maggie Douglas was featured in a Public News Service story from Civil Eats that drew extensively on her work on neonicotinoid insecticides.
Professor of Earth Sciences Ben Edwards discussed the increase in volcanic activity worldwide with CBS News and KCBS-AM San Francisco. His article “Glacier Speed-up as a Possible Precursor to Volcanic Eruptions at Mount Veniaminof, Alaska” was published as open access in the Journal of Glaciology.
Professor of Mathematics Dick Forrester published “The First-Year Seminar Assignment Problem: A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach,” coauthored with Juheon Chu ’24, in The UMAP Journal.
Associate Professor of Biology Tiffany Frey was mentioned in The Philadelphia Inquirer’s annual roundup of commencement speakers.
Associate Professor of German Kamaal Haque published a co-edited book, Global Mountain Cinema, with Edinburgh University Press.
Professor of Computer Science John MacCormick was featured in episode five of the PBS series AI: Unpacking the Black Box. Director of Academic Technology James D’Annibale also contributed to the production.
Visiting Professor of International Security Studies Jeff McCausland provided analysis on the conflict in Ukraine, the future of NATO and diplomacy in Iran during appearances on CBS News Radio’s The John Batchelor Show.
Professor of Political Science Sarah Niebler discussed the Trump administration’s “avalanche of chaos” with Canada’s The Globe and Mail.
Professor of English Siobhan Phillips wrote about the paradoxical genre of the restaurant cookbook in Vittles.
Professor of Music Robert Pound’s Lenton Ordynary continues to serve as the Mass setting performed annually on the first Sunday of Lent at St. Mary the Virgin, New York City, and was reprised there on Feb. 18, 2024. His work for solo viola, Just Paths, commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony’s principal violist, Peter Minkler, was reprised at Dickinson on Sept. 8, 2024. His one-hour Sonata in Memoriam Lloyd Arriola was presented in Sarasota, Florida, by the Hermitage Artist Retreat on May 24, 2024, and reprised at Southeastern University on Sept. 5, 2024. Pound’s musical translation of lines from the Iliad for trumpet and piano premiered at Dickinson on March 22, 2024, and was reprised Sept. 15, 2024, at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory. Pound, with Professor of Art History Melinda Schlitt, contributed performances of music for the Chain Theatre’s fall 2023 premiere of A Will to Live, based on the memoir of Holocaust survivor Helena Weinrauch. With three R&D grants, Patreon funds and personal funds, Pound commissioned and produced two stop-motion animation films by Elizabeth and Alden Phelps P’19, one for each of his chamber works when we three meet (1999) and creation fables (2005). creation fables has been honored by multiple film festivals, including the Atlanta Movie Awards, Brooklyn International Short Awards, Religion Faith International Film Festival, Best Shorts Film Festival and Chain Film Festival. Pound also produced recordings of bothworks with Dickinson audio technician Patrick Oh for commercial distribution. The films were screened with live music at Dickinson on Sept. 13, 2024.
Professor of French and Francophone Studies Mireille Rebeiz published a piece in Middle East Eye titled “Despite Genocide and Hate, Arab Americans Will Celebrate Our Heritage” and a piece in The Conversation on the key to Lebanon’s recovery. She discussed the success of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in Portugal’s Expresso and explored how various U.S. presidents have managed the Iran-U.S. relationship on Australia’s ABC News.
Professor of Spanish Jorge R. G. Sagastume published the article “Jorge Luis Borges, la kenning, y la monadología lingüística” in the Latin American Literary Review (Spring 2025). The article was developed with the help of research assistant Yixin “Selena” Yang ’24, who is now pursuing a master’s in linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As editor of The Pasticheur, Sagastume also curated the June 2025 special issue, The Wind of Others, featuring 19 renowned women artists and writers of Asian origin or descent. The issue includes contributions from Dickinson faculty Rachel Eng, Magda Siekert and Adrienne Su.
Professor and chair of English and Kalaris Chair in the History of Science Claire Seiler has been awarded a prestigious 2025-26 fellowship by the National Humanities Center. This fellowship, awarded to 32 scholars nationwide, will support her project The Narrative Lives of Polio, a book exploring the cultural and literary histories surrounding the disease, its representations and its lasting impact. She is the only liberal-arts college faculty member in this year’s NHC cohort.
Administrator Accolades
Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Global Study & Engagement Samantha Brandauer ’95 was the featured guest on the WorldStrides Podcast: Changing Lives Through Education Abroad, where she discussed how study abroad and fair trade go hand in hand.
CIO and Vice President of Information & Technology Services Jill Forrester was a featured guest on the Educause Integrative CIO podcast in April. The title of the episode was “Pilots, Principles and Pop-Ins: A Practical Path to Campus AI.”
Director of Regional and Local Partnerships and Programs Samantha Ha-Dimuzio discussed the impact of federal funding cuts to AmeriCorps programs with The Sentinel.
President John E. Jones III ’77, P’11 discussed the legal fight over the deportation of accused gang members to El Salvador (including one man wrongfully deported) during appearances on CBS Mornings, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, The Source With Kaitlan Collins and News Central, and appeared on MSNBC’s Chris Jansing Reports. His comments were also highlighted in a feature article on CNN.com. Jones is a signatory to a letter from AAC&U calling for constructive engagement with the Trump administration over higher-education policy. The letter received coverage mentioning Jones in PennLive/The Patriot-News, WITF-FM public radio, WGAL-TV NBC 8 and WHP-TV CBS 21. He discussed the Trump administration’s behavior toward federal judges with The Conversation, The Guardian, Daily Kos, Bloomberg News, RawStory, The Washington Post, USA Today, France’s AFP and Swiss public broadcaster SRF. He appeared on MSNBC’s Katy Tur Reports to discuss judicial appointments and the Trump administration’s conflicts with higher education. Jones also discussed potential conflicts between the Trump family’s business interests and the government in an interview in the Portuguese daily Expresso. At the Pennsylvania State University’s 2025 Distinguished Alumni, Honorary Alumni, and Philanthropist of the Year ceremony on June 7, Jones accepted a Distinguished Alumni Award on behalf of Judge Sylvia Rambo ’58, accompanied by Penn State Dickinson Law Dean Danielle Conway.
Director of Sustainability Learning Lindsey Lyons discussed the college’s beekeeping collective, the Hive, in The Burg magazine.
Dottie Warner, director of the Office of Conferences & Special Events, received United Way’s 2025 Alexis de Tocqueville Humanitarian Award.
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Published August 29, 2025