Emma Briant contributed to the United Nations Association-UK Magazine feature "Perspectives: 'post-truth' factor."
Debbie Cenziper’s book Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality (William Morrow, 2016) was named to Bustle’s “25 of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2016” list.
Aida Gómez-Robles published the article “Brain enlargement and dental reduction were not linked in hominin evolution” in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Roy Richard Grinker was awarded $15,259 from the California Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation for his work on integrating multidisciplinary tools to study Plio-Pleistocene paleoecology of early hominins from the Omo Valley, Ethiopia.
Hardy Farrow, BA ’13, executive director of the nonprofit Let’s Innovate Through Education, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List.
Oleg V. Kargaltsev was awarded a $50,119 grant from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to study hard x-ray portraits of the star LS 5039.
Dean Kessmann was awarded a Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grant for his project “Utilitarian Abstraction and Details: Utilitarian Abstraction.”
Young-Key Kim-Renaud was awarded a $26,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the Korean Studies Institute Inaugural Conference.
Physics PhD candidate Noel Klingler was the lead author of “Deep Chandra Observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Created by PSR B0355+54” in The Astrophysical Journal. He also co-authored “Geminga's puzzling pulsar wind nebula” in The Astrophysical Journal with Oleg Kargaltsev.
Jakub Kostal was awarded a $100,000 grant from the PhRMA Foundation to re-design the chemical compound tricresyl phosphate for safety and increased efficacy.
Melani McAlister was awarded a $50,400 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, “Responses of Religion and Popular Humanitarianism to Nigeria’s Civil War, 1967-1970.”
Peter Nemes was awarded a $650,000 National Science Foundation Career Award from the Biology Directorate.
Kelly Ostrofsky was awarded a $13,660 grant from the Leakey Foundation for her studies on the comparison of vertical climbing and suspension in wild African apes.
Frank Sesno authored the book Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change (AMACOM, 2017).
Takae Tsujioka was awarded a $20,000 grant from the Japan-US Friendship Commission for the Japanese Learning Inspired Vision and Engagement (J.LIVE) Talk 2017.