December 2022 Noteworthy

December 14, 2022

The BA in Creative Writing and English program was recognized as one of the best BA/BFA programs in creative writing in the country.

Thomas Billard, BA ’14, (Political Communication) and Sally Nuamah, BA ’11, (Political Science) were selected as finalists for the William T. Grant Scholars Program class of 2028.

Senior James Bishop (Sociology) scored 44 points in the GW Men’s Basketball’s game against Hofstra University on November 17, the team’s highest individual single-game scoring performance since 1982.

Thea Brown (English) published the poem “The Detective” in Oversound.

Dana Tai Soon Burgess (Dance) received a D.C. Mayoral Proclamation of Congratulations for the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company’s 30 years of success in and artistic contributions to the District.

Kavita Daiya (English, WGSS) presented her paper “Rethinking Equity, Intersectionality, and Caste in Dalit-American Life-Writing” on the interdisciplinary panel “Setting Caste Ablaze: Global Movements to Destroy Engrained Inequality” at the annual conference of the American Studies Association.

Sara DeYoung, MA ’06, (Museum Studies) was named head of visitor experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Senior Emma Mitchell (Political Science) won the Washington-Baltimore Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) student paper of the year award for her experiment on critical race theory. She will presented her paper at the 2023 Annual AAPOR Conference in Philadelphia this May.

Senior Rachel Rohrich (Biology) was featured in the Washington City Paper article “Becoming Ballet: Introducing the Washington Ballet’s Studio Company.’’

Virginia Robles-Villalba, BFA ’86, (Fine Arts) exhibited artwork at the American Poetry Museum in Washington, D.C., include the oil painting “Woman at the Window” and the watercolor “Enlightenment.”

Nada Romanos Abizaid, BFA ’93, (Graphic Design) premiered her exhibit “Impressions and Biomes” at The Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Va.

Kimberly Sellers, PhD ’01, (Statistics) was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics.