The CCAS Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics was awarded a $6,426,037 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Leah Brooks (TSPPPA) was cited in the paper “State Capacity for Building Infrastructure” by The Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group.
Eric Cline (Classical & Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) was featured in Science News’ favorite books of 2024 for his book After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Graduate students Adam Darr (Public Administration, Budget and Public Finance), Nate Meehan (Public Administration), Frank Milbourn (Environmental Resource Policy) and Branden Reis (Public Administration, Legislative Affairs and Advocacy) were awarded the 2024 Capstone Excellence Prize from the CCAS Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration for their project “Conflict to Coexistence: Strategies to Strengthen Human-Beaver Relations in Washington State” on behalf of the Methow Beaver Project.
Sophomore Kayla DeSousa (Interior Architecture) was part of a team that won second place and a $2,000 prize at the GW Pitch George competition for their product Chew Charm, a spray scent for dog toys.
Mayuko Maeda (Political Science) received a $2,500 award from the American Political Science Association for a cross-national study on the voting rights and suffrage movements of people with cognitive disabilities titled “Challenging Incapacity.”
Alex Nyerges, BA ’79 (American Civilization, Anthropology), MA ’82 (Museum Studies), co-authored American, Born Hungary: Kertesz, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2024).
Dmitry Streletskiy (Geography, International Affairs) was the lead researcher for the Environmental Research Letters study “Thawing permafrost is subsiding in the Northern Hemisphere,” which found frozen ground in the Arctic is sinking at an increased rate.
Emma Tanner, MA ’23, (Museum Studies) authored the book Washington, D.C. Then and Now: A new photographic guide to the hidden history, stories and architecture of the American capital (Pavilion Books, 2025).
Cheryl W. Thompson (SMPA) received the 2024 Washington Association of Black Journalists Legacy Award at the 3rd annual WABJ Special Honors & Scholarship Gala.
Gregory Wallace (Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences) was awarded a $22,271 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research on preparing for obesity treatment optimization with transition-age autistic youth.
Nicholas White (Physics) was named a 2025 fellow of the prestigious American Astronomical Society for his scientific leadership in making high energy astrophysics data widely available to the astronomical community.