Awards and Recognition
The Jazzies, D.C.’s Jazz Awards, named Herman Burney, part-time faculty in the Department of Music, D.C.'s Best Bassist for 2011.
Yvonne Captain, associate professor of Spanish and international affairs, was recently honored with an award in her name: the Yvonne Captain Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education. She also chaired a session and presented a paper at the 6th biennial conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora.
Lindsay Garvin, graduate student in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, was awarded a PhRMA Foundation Fellowship, which provides a two-year stipend to support her pre-doctoral studies.
Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology, was lead investigator for the study “The Epidemiology of Autism in South Korea,” listed as one of the Editor’s Choices 2011 in Nature.
Professor of Mathematics Valentina Harizanov gave a lecture at the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, University of Vienna.
Alexander Huang, associate professor of English, will be a research fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library from January to March in 2012. He also was appointed to the Modern Language Association's (MLA) Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare and was elected to the MLA executive committee on East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900.
Qing Pan, assistant professor of statistics, received a Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children's National Mentored Research Career Development Award.
Selected Published Works
Professor of Chemistry Chris Cahill and his research group co-authored the article “Uranyl Sensitization of Samarium (III) Luminescence in a Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymer” published in and featured on the cover of Inorganic Chemistry.
Elizabeth Fisher, professor of classics, served as co-editor of Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot. She also published an article in that volume, "Michael Psellos on the 'Usual' Miracle at Blachernae, the Law, and Neoplatonism".
Lisel Hintz, a graduate student in political science, published "Explaining Democratic Failure in the Post-Soviet Space" in The Washington Review of Turkish and Eurasian Affairs’ December issue.
The Shakespearean International Yearbook, edited by Associate Professor of English Alexander Huang, with a special section edited by Professor of English Jonathan Gil Harris, was published.
Harris Mylonas, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, authored "Greece" in the European Journal of Political Research.
Gregory Squires, professor of sociology and public policy and public administration, authored “Professors Stand with Occupy Protesters” in the Occupied Washington Times.
Clay Warren, Chauncey M. Depew Professor of Communication, authored “Family Sex Communication Quotient” in Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures.