Lisa Bowleg was awarded a $739,767 grant from the WK Kellogg Foundation for her work in developing an innovative tool for accelerating progress in achieving racial equity in employment and maternal and child health.
David Braun received a $25,153 grant award the National Science Foundation for research on movement ecology and hominin behavioral evolution from Lake Turkana, Kenya.
Christopher Cahill was awarded a $373,199 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for his nuclear energy-related research on the fundamental chemical behavior of uranium, neptunium and plutonium under environmentally relevant conditions.
Erin Chapman was awarded a prestigious ACLS Fellowship for her book project The Truth Demands Its Own Equals: The Art and Activism of Lorraine Hansberry.
Imani M. Cheers moderated a panel discussion on the documentary Whose Streets with Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery and former SMPA Shapiro Fellow Jeffrey Blount.
History PhD candidate Chelsea Davis received a Cosmos Scholars grant for research on 19th century British wine production at the Cape of Good Hope.
Frank DiPerna is featured in a retrospective at the Katzen Arts Center of the American University Museum.
Keryn Bromberg Gedan received a $29,948 award from the National Science Foundation for her project titled “LTER: Drivers, dynamics and consequences of non-linear change in coastal barrier systems.”
Polly Gregory, BA ’16 was interviewed by Dinner Party magazine.
Kerric Harvey’s paper “Some One Else's Selfie: Ethnographic Theatre Opportunities Using Every Social Media Technology” was accepted to the Royal Anthropological Institute and British Museum’s Art, Materiality and Representation conference.
Gustavo Hormiga received a $422,395 award from the National Science Foundation. He also co-authored the article “Origin of spiders and their spinning organs illuminated by mid-Cretaceous amber fossils” in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Oleg Kargaltsev was awarded three grants from the Smithsonian Institution: $74,903 for his work discovering extended sources in Chandra images; $14,202 for studying bright x-ray counterparts of galactic 3FGL sources; and $9,800 for testing pair production in pulsar magnetosphere.
Dina Khoury received an ACLS Fellowship for her book project Who is a Migrant Laborer? Migration and Documentation in the Persian Gulf.
Stuart Licht received a $279,688 award from the U.S. Department of Energy for his work on developing alkaline membrane-based ammonia electrosynthesis with high efficiency for renewable and scalable liquid-fuel production.
Justin Linford received a $24,419 award from the Associated Universities National Radio Astronomy OBS and the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Classical Novae: A Test Case for ngVLA Stellar Outflow Imaging Capabilities.”
Thomas Mallon’s book Fellow Travelers (Vintage, 2008) was the subject of an opera performed in New York.
Arnaud Martin was awarded a $102,604 grant from the National Science Foundation for his work on the cis-regulatory basis of butterfly wing pattern evolution.
Jessica McCaughey received the Emergent Researcher Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Robert McRuer authored Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance (New York University Press, 2018).
Bibiana Obler was awarded a $7,000 grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design for her "Fast Fashion / Slow Art" Exhibition.
Guillermo Orti was awarded a $38,888 grant from the National Science Foundation for collaborative research on the role of habitat transitions in parallel marine fish radiations.
Ethan Porter co-authored “Sex Trafficking, Russian Infiltration, Birth Certificates, and Pedophilia: A Survey Experiment Correcting Fake News” in the Journal of Experimental Political Science and “The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes' Steadfast Factual Adherence” in Political Behavior.
Jozef H. Przytycki was featured in the book Mathematics in Gdansk Pomerania, 1945-2015 (Gdansk University Press, 2017). He also gave a plenary talk at the Forum of Polish Mathematicians at the annual meeting of the Polish Mathematical Society in Lublin, Poland.
Frank Sesno was named a top 10 journalism educator by Crain's NewsPro.
James Sham’s artificial intelligence program “PatentBot” was featured in "Piksel 17: A Festival for Elektronisk Kunst og fri Teknologi,” an exhibition in Bergen, Norway.
David Silverman was named to the advisory board of the Yale Indian Papers Project.
Janet Steele delivered a lecture on "The Journalisms of Islam: Contending views in Muslim Southeast Asia" to the Santa Fe Council on International Relations.
Cheryl W. Thompson spoke at the International Visitor Leadership Program.
Nikki Usher’s article “Venture-Backed News Startups and the Field of Journalism: Challenges, changes, and consistencies” was named one of the top 10 most important pieces of new research in digital and social media published in 2017 by the Journalist’s Resources project at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Judit Varga was featured in the Ceramics Monthly article “Pushing the Boundaries.”
Karen Vidangos, MA ’17, was interviewed by Bustle in the article “Google’s "Arts & Culture" App Is Being Called Racist, But The Problem Goes Beyond The Actual App.”
Silvio Waisbord authored “The elective affinity between post-truth communication and populist politics” in the journal Communication Research and Practice, co-authored “The Snowden Revelations and the Networked Fourth Estate” in the International Journal of Communication and spoke to the School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University in Beijing.
Corcoran graduate student Margaret Wroblewski was featured in The Washington Post article “Women share their #MeToo experiences on Metro — and offer solutions.”
Gideon Yechiel Zelermyer, BA ’97, won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance for his work on the Leonard Cohen album You Want It Darker.