Awards & Achievements

��ճԹ�

Darlene Pasieczny ’01 Is the 2024 Babson Society Outstanding Volunteer Award Recipient

The award has been bestowed on extraordinary ��ճԹ� volunteers since 1987.

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson

National Science Foundation to fund Prof. Nicole James’s research on chemistry instruction

By Katie Pelletier ’03

An Anthology of Disruptions, Large and Small

Library of America honors poet Gary Snyder ’51 with volume of his collected poems.

By John Sheehy ’82

Chemistry Prof Wins Grant to Advance Research on Molecular Crystals

Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado has been awarded a three-year grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.

By Katie Pelletier '03

September 22, 2023

��ճԹ� Professor Earns Fulbright Scholar Award for 2023–24

Professor Ellen Millender received a grant to conduct research abroad.

August 1, 2023

Kevan Shokat ’86 Receives Vollum Award

The scientist's research targeting KRAS mutations has opened doors to a new class of cancer treatments.

June 14, 2023

Christine Lewis '07 Named to 40 Under 40 List

The Metro Councilor and former ��ճԹ� trustee will be honored by the Portland Business Journal on July 13.

April 3, 2023

Prof. Kevin Holmes Wins Cattell Sabbatical Award

The associate professor of psychology will spend the upcoming academic year continuing his studies of linguistic framing.

March 16, 2023

Prof. Elizabeth Drumm Wins NEH Fellowship

With her project, the Spanish and humanities professor hopes to bring more attention to modernist author Ramón del Valle-Inclán.

March 14, 2023

Prof. Sam Fey Wins NSF CAREER Award

The associate professor of biology will study thermal refuges amid climate warming.

March 8, 2023

Six Professors Named to Prestigious Chairs

The newly appointed faculty inspire as both scholars and teachers.

February 28, 2023

��ճԹ� Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Environmental Humanities

The $500,000 initiative will fund new scholarship as well as the creation of courses centered on environmental justice and the literary imagination.

February 17, 2023

Two ��ճԹ� Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards for 2022-23

Profs. Jamie Pommersheim [math] and Tom Landvatter [GLAM] each received grants to conduct research abroad.

December 21, 2022

Chemistry Prof. Kelly Chacón Named Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

The award honors young faculty and comes with an unrestricted research grant of $75,000, which Chacón will use toward their work in bioinorganic spectroscopy.