Catie Bailard published "Corporate Ownership and News Bias Revisited: Newspaper Coverage of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United Ruling" in the journal Political Communication.
Tara S. Behrend was selected as a 2016-2017 Fellow with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration students Joy Bentley, Stephanie Chan, Deborah Swerdlow, Theresa Toll and Megan Tracz published “Summer Meals Transportation Barriers and Solutions” on the Hunger Notes website.
Charlene Bickford received a $34,633 Leon Levy Foundation Grant from the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy for a documentary history of the First Federal Congress.
The Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company gave a special performance in Phnom Penh's Chaktomuk Hall as part of a cultural exchange sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Cambodia.
History PhD candidates Kate Densford and Ben Young and undergraduate history and archaeology student Peri Buch were awarded Fulbright Fellowships.
Amanda Eller, BA ’10, published “Transactional sex and sexual harassment between professors and students at an urban university in Benin” in Culture, Health & Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care.
Robert M. Entman received the International Communications Distinguished Scholar Award at the International Studies Association Conference and gave the preconference keynote presentation, "Communication, Peace and Security in the 21st Century."
Liliya Karimova won a Kennan Institute Research Scholarship.
A photograph by Dean Kessmann was acquired by the Phillips Collection.
Research by Stuart Licht was featured as a clue on the game show Jeopardy!
Steven Livingston spoke at the International Studies Association Conference on the panels "Do Online Media Facilitate Peace or Abet Violence?" and "Areas of Limited Statehood: What Makes State and Non-State Governance Effective and Legitimate." He was also appointed a visiting scholar with the Brookings Institute.
Chemistry major John-Hanson Machado won the Joseph Breen Fellowship for his green chemistry research.
Peter Nemes was named a Helmsley Fellowship with the Helmsley Charitable Trust. He also co-authored “Single-cell mass spectrometry with multi-solvent extraction identifies metabolic differences between left and right blastomeres in the 8-cell frog (Xenopus) embryo” in the journal Analyst.
Marcy Norton received a 2016-17 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Marie Price was elected the first female president of the American Geographical Society.
Nina Seavey’s film Parables of War won the Peter C. Rollins Documentary Award for the Best Film in Popular and American Culture from the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations.
Tara Sinclair presented "How Data Science Can Help Avoid the Next Recession" at SXSW 1016.
The Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration was named the highest ranked public affairs school in the D.C. area by U.S. News & World Reports.
Silvio Waisbord published two articles in the International Encyclopedia of Political Communication on media advocacy and watchdog journalism.
Gregory Wallace co-authored the study “Aging and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence From the Broad Autism Phenotype” in the journal Autism Research.
Victor Weedn was appointed to the Office of the Deputy U.S. Attorney General as an advisor on forensic issues.
This year’s Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Distinguished Teaching Award winners were: Christopher Klemek (WID Distinguished Teaching Award); Daniel DeWispelare (WID Best Assignment Design Award); Victoria Barnett-Woods (WID Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award); and Catherine Woytowicz (Honorable Mention for the WID Distinguished Teaching Award).
William Youmans participated in a panel on “International Broadcasting, Propaganda and Strategic Narratives" at the International Studies Association Conference.