December 2015 Spotlight

December 1, 2015

Shelley Brundage co-wrote the book Writing Scientific Research in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Plural Publishing, 2015).                

Joseph Cordes presented “Do Tax Exemptions for Nonprofit Organizations and Charitable Giving Pay Off: A Cost-Benefit Analysis,” at the Government-Nonprofit Relations and Nonprofit Sustainability: Russia in Comparative Context conference in Moscow, Russia.

Kavita Daiya gave the keynote lecture "Sexual Violence in South Asia and South Asian America: Art and Activism" at  Break the Silence: Sexual Violence in the South Asian Community, a conference hosted by the Asian American Studies Program and South Asia Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lisa Dillin’s artwork was featured in this is light, an exhibit at the Carroll Square Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Tara Donovan, BFA ’91, had her work displayed in the Smithsonian-Renwick Gallery’s Wonder exhibition.

Joe Duffy, BA ’13, joined the Broadway production of Lord of the Dance.

Ashley Hammond was awarded a $16,350 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for testing alternative evolutionary hypotheses for the Pan-hominin LCA pelvis shape.

Valentina Harizanov co-authored a chapter in Turing's Legacy: Developments from Turing's Ideas in Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2014), selected by Computing Review for its 19th Annual Best of Computing list of books.

Jeff Huntington, BFA ’95, and Robert Yi, BFA ’13, curated and exhibited work for the Icono-pop exhibit at the Studio Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Criminal justice senior Jonquel Jones was among the student-athletes named to the John R. Wooden Award Women's Preseason Top 30.

Oleg Kargaltsev was awarded a $23,307 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute to study GLIMPSE-C01, the most massive intermediate-age stellar cluster in the galaxy

BFA candidate Fred Lameck was awarded the 2015 AIGA DC's Design Continuum Fund award.

Plexiglass, a portrait series by Hatnim Lee, BA ’13, was profiled by CNN.

Political communication and economics senior Jessica McEntee received the GW SURE Award and won second place in the White House News Photographers Association 2015 Eyes of History: Multimedia Contest.

Sandi Moynihan, BA ’13, won an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association.

Bibiana Obler won the SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication.

Guillermo Orti was awarded a $688,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to provide a unified framework that includes fossil and living species for comparative analyses.

Rachel Riedner wrote the book Writing Neoliberal Values: Rhetorical Connectivities and Globalized Capitalism (Palgrave, 2015).

Shanyn Ronis, BA ’09, was awarded Poder Civico A.C.’s $50,000 international Gifted Citizen Award for her work in international education.

Shivan Sarna completed an Ailes Apprentice Program  with Fox News.

Mica Scalin, BFA ’99, was profiled by the Fast Company website in the article “Why You Should Hire An Artist As Your Next Business Consultant.”

Nikolay Shiklomanov was awarded a $16,775 grant from the University Of Northern Iowa for research on the project ASUS: Arctic Sustainability: A Synthesis of Knowledge.

Caroline Smith and university writing student Celeste Hanna published the essay "'There's a Monster Growing in Our Heads': Mad Men's Betty Draper, Fan Reaction, and Twenty-First Century Anxiety about Motherhood," in the collection Teacher, Scholar, Mother: Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy (Lexington Books, 2015).

Chet Sherwood received a $999,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to examine differences in vocal learning and sound-symbol associations among chimpanzees.

English senior Ryan Tucker was named to the Atlantic 10 Cross Country Academic All-Conference Team.

Corcoran senior Kohei Urakami had his artwork featured in the Griffin Gallery's inaugural show “Spirits: Works.”

History undergraduate freshman Diana Wallens won a $1000 scholarship from the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the District of Columbia for an essay she wrote on the decline of the Puritan experiment in colonial New England.