Gabrielle Bello, a Human Services and Social Justice major, and Zaniya Lewis, a Political Science major, were given The Diana Award for social action and humanitarian efforts for their YesSheCanCampaign, which empowers and inspires young women to continue their education through storytelling.
William Briscoe (Physics) was awarded a grant from the Department of Energy for $8,208.
Leah Brooks (Public Policy and Administration) received a $77,298 grant from the Fannie Mae Foundation to study physical limitations on housing growth in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
James Clark (Biology) was a consultant for the PBS documentary When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time.
Eric Cline (Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) was awarded a $30,000 grant from the National Geographic Society to investigate the collapse of the Middle Bronze Age palace at Tel Kabri, Israel.
Gelaye Debebe (Organizational Sciences and Communications) authored the book Women's Leadership Development: Caring Environments and Paths to Transformation (Routledge, 2019).
Mark Esper, PhD ’08, (Public Policy) was named acting U.S. secretary of defense.
Michael Freedman (Media and Public Affairs) participated in the Newseum panel “Trust, Journalism and Media Literacy.”
The Institute for Documentary Filmmaking student production Boys in the Boat was selected to screen at the Global Impact Film Festival in Washington, D.C.
Neil Johnson (Physics) was awarded a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study online dynamics.
Oleg Kargaltsev (Physics) received a grant for $266,464 from NASA-Goddard for the multiwavelength identification of galactic high-energy sources.
Joel Lewis (Mathematics) was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities to examine combinatorics—mathematics dealing with combinations of objects in a finite set—in reflection groups.
The LGBT Health Policy & Practice Graduate Certificate Program received the 2019 GLMA Achievement Award, which recognizes contributions to improving the health and well-being of LGBTQ individuals, the climate for the LGBTQ health workforce or gains made by the LGBTQ civil rights movement.
Tara Rosenblum, BA ’00, (Journalism) was profiled by Westchester Magazine in the article “News 12 Westchester’s Tara Rosenblum Wields the Power of the Microphone.”
Janet Steele (Media and Public Affairs) was a U.S. embassy speaker in Sabah, Malaysia, participating in a three-day workshop for journalists on “The Role of Media in Covering Violent Extremism.”
Cheryl W. Thompson (Media and Public Affairs) won the Washington, D.C., Pro-chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists 2019 Dateline Award for best magazine feature and was re-elected as president of the Investigative Reporters & Editors board of directors.
Gregory Wallace (Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences) received a $23,866 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the neurogenetics of women with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Sarah Yerkes (Corcoran) published her first book of poetry, Days of Blue and Flame (Passager Books, 2019), at 101-years-old.