Nica Albertson, BA ’23, (Music) released the album Tender Hearted.
M. Shams Billah, BA ’08, (Economics) was named to Bloomberg Law’s “They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40” list in the Banking and Finance category.
Dana Tai Soon Burgess (Dance) premiered the dance performance “El Muro/The Wall” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
Elizabeth Chacko (Geography) and Marie Price (Geography) were awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project on the geographies of migration and insecurity at the United States-Mexican border.
Matt Eich (Photojournalism) co-created the new exhibition “Sunlight, Shadow, and a Rainbow” at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Kara Nicole Hershorin, MA ’11, (Museum Studies) and Elisa Mondragon, MA ’22 (Organizational Sciences) were recognized by the Alexandria (Va.) Chamber of Commerce and Zebra Press in their annual 40 under 40 awards.
Jeff Marootian, BA ’01, MPA ’03, (Human Services and Social Justice, Public Administration) was nominated by President Biden as assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Arnaud Martin (Biology) received a $655,390 NSF grant to study how the silk glands of moths develop and evolve to adapt to various environments.
Kimberly Probolus-Cedroni, PhD ’19, (American Studies) was named assistant director of research at Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
Christopher Rollston (Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) co-authored the book Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of P. Kyle McCarter Jr. (SBL Press, 2022).
Heather Stebbins (Music) released her new album New Forms, Old Selves.
Eiko Strader (Public Policy, Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) wrote the book Demography of Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Minority Populations (Springer, 2022).
Andrew Thompson (Political Science) received a $44,893 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to study the ways incoming demographic shifts impact how Americans of color and white Americans think about racial identity and democracy.
Adelina Voutchkova (Chemistry) was appointed the inaugural director of the Sustainable Development and the Green Chemistry Institute at the American Chemical Society.