Sergio Almecija was awarded an $18,877 grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation to study phylogenetic inference in hominoids using multiple hard-tissue 3D morphologies.
Dominique Bonessi, BA ’15, reported “Swapping Schoolbooks for Sewing” from Syria for U.S. News and World Report.
Jamie O. Bosket, MA ’08, was named president and CEO of the Virginia Historical Society.
Sophomore Tyler Burton won the Silver Prize in the Intermediate Category at the J.LIVE 2016 Japanese language competition.
Debbie Cenziper was a featured speaker at the Montgomery County Friends of the Library Literary Series, the Miami International Book Fair and the National Academy of Education Annual Meeting.
James Clark co-authored “A toothed turtle from the Late Jurassic of China and the global biogeographic history of turtles” in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Eric Cline received the ASOR Membership Service Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Nancy Evans, Erica Riggio and students from the Interior Architecture and Design program re-designed the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project office in Washington, D.C.
Sylvain Guiriec was appointed to the executive committee of the NASA Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group.
Hugh Gusterson published the book Drone (MIT Press, 2016).
Valentina Harizanov received the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Faculty Research for 2015-16.
Jodi Kanter was featured on the American Library Association's podcast.
Young-Key Kim-Renaud was awarded a $44,445 grant from the Academy of Korean Studies to study overseas Korean language and culture education.
Primoz Kovacic, MA ’14, led the children’s training session “Map my City” at the U.N. Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development in Quito, Ecuador.
Stuart Licht received the 2017 CSW Hillebrand Prize from the Chemical Society of Washington in recognition of his contributions to the science of chemistry; he also was a finalist in the Research Project and Sustainable Technology category for the IChemE Global Awards from the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
Steven Livingston organized a symposium on “The Future of Human Rights: Technology and Fact-Finding in the 21st Century” hosted by the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Ira Lurie was awarded a $134,182 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice to study the utility of multi-dimensional liquid chromatography for the analysis of seized drugs.
Melani McAlister was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2017-18.
Kathryn Newcomer was awarded the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration’s 2016 William Duncombe Excellence in Doctoral Education Award.
Senior Elissa Nunez was accepted into the 2017 News21 fellowship program at Arizona State's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Jason Osder’s film Let the Fire Burn was screened at the Mexican National Senate.
E. Arthur Robinson and Daniel H. Ullman authored The Mathematics of Politics, Second Edition 2nd Edition (CRC Press, 2016)
Junior Ellie Smith appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss campus protests against President-elect Donald Trump.
Janet Steele appeared on the "Do You Dare to Print?—the Dangers of Journalism Today" panel at the Embassy of Sweden's celebration of 250 years of press freedom. She also moderated several sessions at the 2016 Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, including "The View From Here," "Should Journalism be Constructive?" and "Making America Great Again."
Christopher Sterling gave a presentation on “Churchill in Washington, D.C.” at the Churchill Centre in Washington, D.C.
Cheryl W. Thompson spoke on “The ABCs of a Hard-Hitting Investigation" and "The Art of the Interview" at the African Investigative Journalism Conference.
Nikki Usher presented on “The Digital Civic Space” at Canada’s Journalism Innovation Deficit Workshop at the University of British Columbia.
Silvio Waisbord discussed findings from his book Media Movements: Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America (University of Chicago Press, 2016) at the Center for International Media Assistance. He also spoke at the Texas Tech University College of Media and Communication.