The 2016 Trachtenberg School Alumni and Teaching Awards honored Dr. Bill Adams, PhD ’77, with the Outstanding Full-Time Teaching Award; David J. Bernstein, MPA ’83, PhD ’00, with the Distinguished Alumni Award; and Emily St. Martin Lord, MPA ’08, with the Recent Alumni Achievement Award.
Max Alekseyev was awarded the 2015 John Riordan prize for his study "On Enumeration of Paths in Catalan-Schröder Lattices."
Research by undergraduate service-learning students Madeleine Shaw, Valentina Barrera Vasco and Najya Williams was published in the Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research.
Maria Pia Gualdani received a $410,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study differential equations in collisional kinetic theory.
Works of art by Dean Kessmann were acquired by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection as part of their permanent collections.
Chryssa Kouveliotou was awarded the Commander of the Order of Honor of the Hellenic Republic at the Embassy of Greece by Ambassador Christos Panagopoulos.
Michael L. Mann was awarded a $20,491 grant from the International Food Policy Research Institute to develop climate-smart insurance products that enhance India’s farmers’ adaptive capacity.
Darley Newman, BA ’01, is the host of the TV show Travels with Darley on PBS.
Oliver Contreras, MA ’15, had his thesis-based project "Trabajadores Workers" published on The Washington Post website.
Rachel Riedner was awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant to fund a workshop titled “An Introduction to Teaching of Writing in the Disciplines” at the University of Tromso, Arctic University of Norway.
Doctoral student Brian Schilder participated in the Scientist-is-In program at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Nina Seavey’s documentary film Parables of War won a Gold Award at the California Film Awards, a Platinum at the Oregon Film Festival and selected Best Documentary Short Film at the Atlas Awards International Film Festival. Her film My Fugitive, was the recipient of a $25,000 gift from an anonymous donor.
Cheryl W. Thompson was named one of “13 investigative journalists you should know” by Blavity.
Fine Arts senior Kohei Urakami presented her work as part of the Excellence in Printmaking show at the Washington Printmakers Gallery.
Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal received a $494,543 National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development grant to support her academic and research work in green chemistry and the design of safer chemicals.
Abdourahman Waberi was a featured author at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India.