Andrew Barr (Anthropology) co-authored “Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus” in Nature.
Barry Chiswick (Economics) co-authored the paper “Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment of Young Adults with Cognitive Disabilities” for the National Bureau of Economic Research. It was featured by NPR’s Planet Money as a highlight of the American Economic Association 2026 Annual Meeting.
Brendan Drake (Dance) was named the inaugural recipient of the D.C. Dance Network Choreographer Commission.
Mackenzie Fama (Speech and Hearing) was awarded a $75,000 grant from the American Speech-Language Hearing Foundation to research inner speech and task-switching ability in aphasia.
Senior Lauren Gillespie (Graphic Design) won an Independent Press Award for her work on Nurse Florence, Tell Me About the Mediterranean Diet, part of the Nurse Florence children’s book series.
Isabelle Giuttari, MA ’24, (English) authored the novel Most Eligible. The romantic comedy, written under her pen name Isabelle Engel, was one of Women.com’s Most Anticipated Books for Winter 2025–26 and a January 2026 Book of the Month selection.
Alexa Alice Joubin (English) received a $6,136 grant from the Institute for Humane Studies to develop open-source and open-access AI for liberal arts higher education. She was also interviewed by Higher Ed Dive for an article on AI and education.
Alexander Pyron (Biology) and Linyi Zhang (Biology) published “The species problem evolving in the Anthropocene” in Nature Reviews Biodiversity.
Silvio Waisbord (Journalism) spoke on disinformation research at the Central European Digital Media Observatory conference in Wroclaw, Poland.