Asha Abdul-Mujeeb, MA ’25, (Museum Studies) was profiled in the article “How Asha Abdul- Mujeeb, a Black digital archivist, is preserving HBCU history” by the Reckon news organization.
Paz Beniamini (Physics) received $48,568 from NASA-Goddard for “Decoding Fast Radio Bursts and their potential role as cosmological probes.”
Michael Bradley (Economics) received $150,000 from the United States Postal Service for “Research on Product Costing under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.”
David Braun (Anthropology) received $317,985 from the National Science Foundation for “The Missing Technology: Machine Learning Approaches to Identifying Technological Origins.”
David Braun (Anthropology) received $17,438 from the National Science Foundation for “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Coevolution of Stone Tools and Hominin Hand Morphology.”
Keryn Gedan (Biology) received $11,597 from the National Park Service for “Monitoring Effects of Resident Canada Goose Herbivory and Population Control Activities on the Tidal Freshwater Wetlands in Anacostia Park, National Capital Parks-East.”
Keryn Gedan (Biology) received $177,644 from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Uncovering the Role of Stemflow in the Cycling of Water and Solutes in Coastal Forests under Stress from Sea Level Rise.”
Eric Grynaviski (Political Science) co-authored the book The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America’s First Pacific Empire (Cambridge, 2024).
Sylvain Guiriec (Physics) received $9,360 from NASA-Goddard-LOC for “Implementing Pixelized Silicon Strip Detectors in ComPair2.”
Oleg Kargaltsev (Physics) received $37,406 from NASA-Goddard for “The Lighthouse PWN as a probe of ISM structure and a unique relativistic plasma physics laboratory.”
Ivy Ken (Sociology) received $305,000 from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Meatpacking in Rural Communities: Corporate Land Use Strategies, Immigration, and Labor Policy.”
Chryssa Kouveliotou (Physics) received the prestigious Distinguished Scientist Award from the Southeastern Universities Research Association.
Vera Kuklina (Geography) received $127,387 from the National Science Foundation for “Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities: Resource for Climate Adaptation? (ARCA).”
Eve Levenson, MPA ’23, (Public Administration) was profiled in The Washington Post for her work as the national youth engagement director for the Biden Campaign.
Courtney Middleton, MA ’24, (Art History) participated in the 54th annual Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art organized by the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
John MIller (Chemistry) received $430,169 from the National Science Foundation for “LaHetRa: An Advanced Remote Diagnostic for Industrial Flames and Wild Fires.”
Stephen Mitroff (Psychology) received $237,997 from the U.S. Army-ACC-APG-RPT for “Theory-driven big data approaches.”
Carson Murray (Anthropology) received $29,900 from the National Science Foundation for “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Impacts of early exposure to violence in wild chimpanzees.”
Kathryn Newcomer (TSPPPA) co-edited the book Research Handbook on Program Evaluation (Edward Elger Publishing, 2024) and authored four chapters.
PhD candidate Emma Northcott (TSPPPA) won the 2024 Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management-Public and Nonprofit Division.
Bibiana Obler (Art History) wrote the essay “Not Your Grandmother’s Labor” for the book Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction.
Scott Odell (Geography) received $249,712 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for “Environmental justice in host communities of clean energy mining operations.”
Ben Page, MPP ’05, (TSPPPA) was appointed deputy assistant secretary for economic development and COO at the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
Sanjay K. Pandey (TSPPPA) was ranked ninth out of more than 32,000 public administration scholars by ScholarGPS.
Jozef Przytycki (Mathematics) received $20,000 from the National Science Foundation for “Knots in Washington: Conferences on Knot Theory and its Ramifications.”
Graduate student Gianna Ramirez (Speech Language Pathology) received the American Speech Language Hearing Association’s Students Preparing for Academic-Research Careers (SPARC) Award.
Thomas Shanker (SMPA) relieved $450,000 from Carnegie Corporation of New York for the Project for Media and National Security 2024.
Chester Sherwood (Anthropology) received $12,030 from Leakey Foundation for “Enhanced social-visceral integration in the evolution of great apes, cetaceans and afrotherians?”
Jasmine Smith (Political Science) received $14,692 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for the project “Understanding Political Behavior in Primary Elections: Race, Issue Positions, or Electability.”
Camila Tapias, MPA ’20, (Public Administration) was elected to the GW Board of Trustees as a recent alumni trustee.
Elisabeth Vaquera (Cisneros) received $24,792 from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Conference: Immigrant Well-Being: A Nexus for Research & Policy.”
Julian Wamble (Political Science) received $14,692 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for a proposal on “We Know You: The Political Implications of Black Stereotypes of White Politicians.”
Huixia Judy Wang (Statistics) received $177,014 from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Unlocking Complex Heterogeneity in Large Spatial-Temporal Data with Scalable Quantile Learning.”
Christopher Warshaw (Political Science) received $74,474 from Democracy Fund for “Metrics for a multiracial democracy: The proximity between state policy and public opinion across demographic groups.”
Brian Weeden, PhD ’17, (Public Policy Administration) was appointed policy and regulatory team lead at the Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy.