David M. Anderson, BA ’81, published the book Leveraging: A Political, Economic and Societal Framework.
Donna Betts was sworn in as the president of the board of directors of the American Art Therapy Association.
The NEXT 2015 Exhibition Branding project, led by Corcoran BFA Design Lab students Grace Boyle, David Hodgson, Anders Larsson, Lucien Liz-Lepiorz, Nora Mosley and faculty and faculty member Francheska Guerrero, won an Award of Excellence in the 2015 UCDA Design Competition, a silver in the GRAPHIS Design Annual 2016 competition, and was recognized as an Adobe Design Achievement Awards semi-finalist.
Brenda Bradley won a $129,168 collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation to study the evolution of hair and fur in primates.
William J. Briscoe was appointed to the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority Board by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.
Gerald Brock was awarded the Information and Telecommunications Education and Research Association's Distinguished Research Award for 2015 for his contributions in telecom policy and economics.
Shelley Brundage received the International Fluency Association's Knowledge Development and Innovation Award.
Efstathia Bura was awarded a $35,000 grant from the Simons Foundation for his work on sufficient dimension reduction methodology.
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s book, Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Susan Dudley was awarded a $1,271,580 Charles Koch Foundation grant to support the GW Regulatory Studies Center.
Mark Grabowski’s article “Early Humans May Not Have Been Larger Than Their Ancestors” was featured in Archaeology Magazine.
Eric Grynaviski and political science graduate student Amy Hsieh published "Hierarchy and Judicial Institutions: Arbitration and Ideology in the Hellenistic World" in the journal International Organization.
Postdoctoral Scientist Ashley Hammond was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant for her project entitled “Reconstructing phenotypic change of the pelvis in apes and humans.”
Janice Kaplan, BA ’82, produced the documentary The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations, which premiered at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Oleg Kargaltsev co-authored a paper with physics graduate student Jeremy Hare and post-doctoral student Blagoy Rangelov entitled “An Extended X-Ray Object Ejected from the PSRB1259-63/LS2883" in The Astrophysical Journal.
Chryssa Kouveliotou was awarded a $12,514 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute to collect observations on the currently active neutron star, magnetar SGR 1935+2154.
Shannon McFarlin was awarded a $2,400 grant by the Nacey Maggioncalda Foundation to examine weaning in mountain gorillas.
Peter Nemes was named a 2015 Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and awarded a $750,000 for the development of a single-neuron protein mass analyzer.
History PhD candidate Patrick Nugent is the author of the American Historical Association’s blog AHA Today.
Marvin Phaup and public policy and administration PhD candidate Imtiaz Bhatti published “Budgeting for Fiscal Uncertainty and Bias: A Federal Process Proposal” in Public Budgeting & Finance.
Daniele Podini received a $15,000 award from Bode Cellmark Forensics to use genomic data for studying facial morphology in relation to the age of the donor.
Speech-language pathology master’s student Sara Pool authored “Lab Work for the Non-PhD? Absolutely!” for The ASHA Leader.
Jozef Przytycki received a $83,998 grant by the National Science Foundation to organize the international conference Knots in Washington: A Conference Series on Knot Theory and its Ramifications.
Elizabeth Rigby's paper, “Political Parties and Representation of the Poor in the American States,” won the 2014 Best Journal Article Award from the State Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association.
Gregory Squires was interviewed by China’s Xinhua News Agency on race relations in the United States.
Stephanie Travis' authored the book Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design (Laurence King, 2015), which was featured on the archdaily blog.
Nikki Usher won the 2015 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Junior Scholar Award.
Kelly Vaile, BA ’13, won a 2015 Success Academy Teacher Excellence Award from Success Academy Charter Schools.
Akos Verte’s article “One in a Million: Analyzing Metabolites in a Single Cell” was featured on the U.S. Department of Energy website.
Silvio Waisbord’s article “My Vision for the Journal of Communication” appeared in the Journal of Communication.
Maida Withers received the Pelican Filmmakers Award at the Mykonos Biennale in Greece for her film, TUK (Tukuhnikivatz).
Yanxiang Zhao received a $35,000 grant from the Simons Foundation to construct a phase model on cell migration.