Geoff Brown, BA ’08, received Teach For America’s 2016 Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Dana Tai Soon Burgess was named the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery’s first choreographer-in-residence.
The late Bill Chambliss was remembered with a special edition of the journal Critical Criminology titled “Against Orthodoxy: Essays in Honor of Bill Chambliss.”
Laurence Dumouchel received a $13,380 grant from the Leakey Foundation to study the environments of the earliest obligate biped, Australopithecus anamensis.
Kerric Harvey moderated a panel for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s Discussion Series on “Navigating the Nether: Online Fantasies, Offline Realities."
Nathan Jensen was named one of the Top 20 Reviewers by Political Research Quarterly.
Laura King was among the winners of an Overseas Press Club Award for a series of Los Angeles Times articles on Syrian refugees.
Feifang Hu received a $150,000 award from the National Science Foundation for the creation of new adaptive designs and associated methods for statistical inference.
Peter Linquiti co-authored “The Carbon Ask: effects of climate policy on the value of fossil fuel resources and the implications for technological innovation” in the Journal of Environmental Studies & Sciences.
Steven Livingston moderated the Elliot School of International Affairs event "U.S. Engagement in Africa: The View from AFRICOM."
Mollie Manier co-authored “How sexual selection can drive the evolution of costly sperm ornamentation” in Nature.
Kate McGrath and anthropology graduate student Kathryn Joan were awarded a $14,827 grant from the Leakey Foundation to examine stress-related enamel defects in wild mountain gorillas.
Harris Mylonas wrote “The Politics of Nation-Building Revisited: A Response to Fabbe, Kocher, and Köksal” in Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity.
Jason C. Osder received a $21,600 award from Cinereach Ltd. to produce a documentary film.
Janet Steele was named director of GW's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication.
Jason Sterlacci, BA ’06, won the $100,000 Grand Prize Teachers Tournament on the game show Jeopardy!
Susan Sterner hosted Smithsonian Magazine’s Instagram account for a week to showcase her photojournalism project Estoy Por Aquí.
Nikki Usher was a speaker at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, and an invited lecturer at the International Workshop on Political Communication in Quebec City, Canada.
Amy E. Zanne received a $19,811 award from the National Science Foundation to study community dynamics and ecosystem function in wood decay fungi.