February 2015 Spotlight

February 1, 2015

Eric Arnesen reviewed All Eyes Are Upon Us by Jason Sokol for The Washington Post.

Denver Brunsman appeared with U.S. Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell as part of a program on "Citizenship and Civics: From Washington to the 20th Century" at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Brunsman also co-authored the seventh edition of Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People (Cengage, 2015).

Peggy Cooper Cafritz, BA ’68, JD ’71, was profiled by The New York Times in “Peggy Cooper Cafritz: Everything in a Big Way.”

Erin Chapman, Kavita Daiya, Ivy Ken and Alyssa Zucker were awarded research fellowships from the Global Women’s Institute.

Eric Cline’s book 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed received honorable mention in the Archaeology and Anthropology category of the 2015 PROSE Awards.

Frank DiPerna presented new images from an ongoing body of photographic work entitled "Industrial" at the Civilian Art Project's exhibition Resolution 2015.

Elise Friedland co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture (Oxford University Press, 2015).

English PhD student D. Gilson won Second Prize in the 2015 Split This Rock Annual Poetry Contest.

Eric Grynaviski’s Constructive Illusions (Cornell University Press, 2014) was selected as a Book of the Day by Foreign Affairs.

Muriel Hasbun presented "Including Those from 'Over There': Photographic Education and Practice through a Transnational Lens," at CdF Jornadas 10: Fotografía y Educación, sponsored by the Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo, Uruguay.

Megan Hatch, PhD ’14, and Elizabeth Rigby co-authored “States can fight growing economic inequality through lowering taxes on the poor, and stricter labor market policies” for the London School of Economics and Political Science blog.

Pamela Lawton published the article “The Role of Art Education in Cultivating Community and Leadership through Creative Collaboration" in Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art.

Ira S. Lurie received the 2015 American Academy of Forensic Sciences Paul L. Kirk Award for outstanding contribution in research-related to forensic chemistry.

Economics major Audra Sedluk won a GW Undergraduate Research Award for 2015-2016; her faculty mentor will be Professor Irene Foster.

Gregory Squires was quoted in an article entitled "Housing Enforcement Group Sues M&T Bank for Discrimination" for the website ProPublica.

Mathematics major Mariel Supina presented the poster “The Power of Quantum Computing Algorithms” at the Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.

Gregory Wallace received a $34,000 HHS/NIH/NIDA contract to research the cognitive neuroscience of autism spectrum disorders.

Political Science doctoral student Scott Weiner authored the article “Gulf states pursue unique approaches to falling oil prices” for The Washington Post.

Gary White was an advisor to the GW Society of Physics Students for their 2014-2015 Marsh White Award-winning proposal entitled “The ‘Phun’-damentals of Physics.”

Bernard Wood was awarded a $16,806 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on his doctoral dissertation entitled “Modern Human Substitutions on NR2C1: A Possible Proximate Mechanism For Neural Proliferation in the Hominin Clade?”