Jennifer Brinkerhoff (TSPPPA) won the Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration Best Article Award for 2024 for “Black Leaders in American Foreign Policy: History and Prospects for Overcoming a Racialized Bureaucracy.”
Leah Brooks (TSPPPA) authored the article “Measuring the cost of building infrastructure over time: Very hard to do well” for Science Direct.
Kavita Daiya delivered the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Lecture titled “Migration, Representation, and Imaginings of Hope” at the University of Chicago.
Aintzane Santaquiteria Gil (Biology) published the study “Ecological and genomic signatures of the convergent evolution of planktivory in fossil and living reef fishes over deep time” in Nature.
Richard Grinker (Anthropology) wrote the essay “Autism Has Always Existed, We Haven’t Always Called it Autism” which will be republished in Harper Collins/Mariner’s Best American Series (2026).
Reena Gupta, BA ’26, (SMPA) was quoted by Versant Media in the article “Inside MS NOW’s Future Correspondents’ Brunch: Inspiring the Next Generation of Journalists.”
Sarah Hlubik (Anthropology) was awarded $15,000 by the Leakey Foundation for research toward understanding fire incidence in the Early Pleistocene of Koobi Fora.
Lee Huebner (SMPA) wrote the book Nixon’s Elusive Totality: It Depends on Who Writes the History (Miniver Press, 2026).
Neil Johnson (Physics) authored the article “Twisted light generates robust many-body states for practical quantum computing” in APS Open Science.
Nate Morris, BA ’03, (Political Science) was nominated by President Trump to serve as U.S. ambassador to Colombia.
Jason Osder and William Youmans (SMPA) will screen their film Who Killed Alex Odeh? at the DC/DOX Film Festival.
Axel Schmidt (Physics) and Phoebe Sharp, MS ’22, MPhil ’23, (Physics) were co-authors on the paper “Nuclear shell structure governs short-range nucleon pairing” in Nature.