Craig Allen, a PhD student in American Studies, won the Philip Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for "individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to GW teaching."
Thomas Jefferson High School students Linda Allworth and Pranav Balan, both of whom work in Akos Vertes’s research group, received first place awards in the biochemistry category at the Fairfax County Regional Science and Engineering Fair, qualifying them to move on to the Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair.
Steve Balla published The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-editing the volume and co-authoring a chapter entitled, "What Makes a Classic?: Identifying and Revisiting the Classics of Public Policy and Administration."
Donna Betts and Jackie Biggs, MA ’13, were noted for their work with military service members and veterans by the National Initiative for Arts & Health in the Military.
Carmel Chiswick published the book Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition (Stanford University Press).
The French translation of Eric Cline’s book 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton University Press, 2014) was reviewed in Le Monde and reached #5 on the national best-seller list for nonfiction in France.
Dylan Conger was nominated to serve on a National Academy of Sciences committee on Fostering School Success for English Learners.
Muriel Hasbun shared her photos from El Salvador on the Smithsonian Magazine’s Instagram account during the implementation of her collaborative exhibition Legacy and Memory: Tracking the Labyrinth.
Sigríður Jóhannesdóttir and Elizabeth Kitsos-Kang’s production of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead received a positive review on the DC Metro Theater Arts website.
Derek Malone-France presented the public program, “Astrobiology and the Religious Imagination” at the Library of Congress, the first in an event series on Astrobiology and Human Society that he co-founded with sponsorship from NASA.
Sydney Morris, BS ’15, was selected for a 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Art history MA student Eden Orelove was awarded the Judy F. and Henry Geller Fellowship with The Columbian Women of The George Washington University.
Jozef Przytycki was recognized for his outstanding achievements by the international Conference on Knot Theory and Its Applications to Physics and Quantum Computing at the University of Texas in Dallas.
Moses Schanfield received a $11,500 Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program planning grant from the National Science Foundation.
Bindesh Shrestha and Akos Vertes’s paper “High-Throughput Cell and Tissue Analysis with Enhanced Molecular Coverage by Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Using Ion Mobility Separation” was selected as one of the “ten most notable advances in separation science published in Analytical Chemistry in 2014” by C&EN Supplement’s Advances in Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry & Lab Automation.
Chemistry PhD candidate Sylwia Stopka was selected as a Metropolitan Washington Chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Scholar for 2015-2016.
Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. announced the release of a new chip-based product called REDIchip, utilizing nanopost array technology invented by Akos Vertes’s laboratory team.
Huixia Wang received a $298,474 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a statistical framework for modeling and predicting conditional quantiles in data-sparse regions.
Alyssa Zucker and applied social psychology doctoral candidate Caroline Fitz co-authored the article “Everyday Exposure to Benevolent Sexism and Condom Use Among College Women,” published in Women Health.