Awards and Recognition
Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs Steve Balla and doctoral candidate Zhou Liao presented their research on "Online Consultation and the Nature of Citizen Feedback in Chinese Policymaking" at the annual meeting of the Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS) in San Francisco. Balla was also elected research director of the ACPS.
Director of the Public Policy Program and Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration Dylan Conger received the Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Public Administration.
The American Councils for International Education selected Associate Professor of Arabic and International Affairs Mohssen Esseesy to oversee proficiency assessments of U.S. and Overseas Arabic Flagship programs spanning K-16.
Chair of the Department of Fine Arts and Art History Dean Kessman won third place in the Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards.
Professor of Chemistry John Houston Miller received another grant from the National Science Foundation for his research on laser diagnostics. Combined with an award he received last summer, Miller has now brought in $350,000 for the GW Chemistry Laboratory.
The Department of Energy (DOE) has put into action the recommendations made by 2012 graduates of the Environmental Resource Policy Program Kristin Quam, Dalton Shaughnessy, Blake Smith, and Benjamin Walsh. Last spring, the students teamed up with the DOE’s Office of Legacy Management to examine the feasibility of implementing a 4.5 megawatt solar array on a former uranium mine in Bodo Canyon outside of Durango, Colorado, with the goal to increase the use of green energy.
Dmitry Streletskiy, geography research scientist, will lead the $168,000 component of the three-year, $700,000 project “Collaborative Research: Interactions between Air Temperature, Permafrost and Hydrology in the High Latitudes of Eurasia” in collaboration with the University of New Hampshire.
Medieval and Early Modern Studies doctoral candidate Haylie Swenson won the Michael Camille Essay Prize for her essay "Lions and Latour Litanies in The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt.”
Selected Published Works
Evgeny Finkel, assistant professor of political science, recently published "Mass Killing and Local Context" in the October issue of Comparative Politics.
Associate Professor of Political Science John Sides co-authored an op-ed for The New York Times series, "Campaign Stops," about Americans' use of government social policies.
Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs Nikki Usher published two papers in Journalism: “Ignored, Uninterested, and the Blame Game” which discussed business journalists’ response to the 2007-09 financial crisis, and “Marketplace Public Radio and News Routines Reconsidered,” which discussed the relationship between individuals and organizations, based on a five-month in-depth study of American Public Media's Marketplace.