Charlene Bickford was awarded a $140,898 grant from the History National Archives and Records Administration to support the First Federal Congress Project.
Vian Borchert, BA ’96, was featured in a HERLIFE magazine article on her art exhibit “Fall Into Art & Fashion.”
Zach Borichevsky, BA ’06, made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.
Amy Breesman, BA ’13, was the subject of an article in Ain't Bad magazine about her photographs exploring her Native American heritage.
Environmental studies major Adrian Britt will sail from New Zealand to Tahiti aboard a tall ship with SEA Semester: Ocean Exploration, a study abroad program by the Sea Education Association.
Sabrina Ricks Campbell, BA ’05, won a baking competition on the Food Network show Cake Wars.
American studies PhD candidate Julie Chamberlain was awarded a Cushwa Center grant to conduct research at the University of Notre Dame’s archival collection in Catholic Americana.
Jennifer Chang was selected as the Editor's Choice for 2016 at the Alice James Award competition for her upcoming book Some Say the Lark.
Barry Chiswick was featured on the International Monetary Fund podcast “Migration and the Economics of Language.”
Joseph Cordes presented "Use and Effects of Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks in U.S. Local Government" at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance as part of the University of Washington's Research Seminar Series.
Steve Elfers collaborated on the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting project “Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater.”
Senior chemistry major Richard Fisher received an undergraduate research award from the Chemical Society of Washington.
James Foster was awarded the inaugural Michael Brown Research Prize.
Harald W. Griesshammer received a $185,000 U.S. Department Of Energy grant to develop effective field theories of nuclear physics.
Roy Richard Grinker was award a $50,846 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project that integrates multidisciplinary tools to study Plio-Pleistocene paleoecology of early hominins from the Omo Valley, Ethiopia.
Muriel Hasbun spoke at the School of Visual Arts in New York City as part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series.
BFA Photojournalism candidate Victoria Sarno Jordan received the inaugural Michel du Cille Memorial Scholarship.
Oleg Y. Kargaltsev received a $53,343 award from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center-Library of Congress for a detailed study of the pulsar PSR B0656+14.
Chelsea Lenhart, BA ’14, MPA ’16, discussed her research on Washington's slaves on WAMU's The Kojo Nnamdi Show.
Steven Livingston was appointed a visiting scholar with the Brookings Institute.
Richard Longstreth was inducted as a Society of Architectural Historians Fellow.
Sociology MA student Carmen Navarro won the 2015 Irene B. Taeuber Graduate Student Paper Award from the District of Columbia Sociological Society.
Peter Nemes received the 2016 Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Chemist from the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry.
Jason Osder’s documentary Let the Fire Burn was screened at Wayne State University and at the Philadelphia Film Society.
Kathryn Ranhorn, a doctoral student with the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant.
Kym S. Rice received a $70,000 award from the National Park Services for the preservation and analysis of the National Park Service Museum Collections-National Capital Region Museum.
Rabbi A. James Rudin’s, BA ’55, book Pillar of Fire: A Biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (Texas Tech University Press, 2015) was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the National Jewish Book Award.
Nina Seavey’s documentary film Parables of War won the Peter C. Rollins Documentary Award for the Best Film in Popular and American Culture from the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. The film was acquired by Gravitas Ventures.
Lynn Sures’ work was featured in the "Paper Monument" show at Central Booking in New York.
Huixia J. Wang was awarded a $261,489 grant from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology to conduct statistical process monitoring and risk assessment for engineering and spatial environmental applications.
Jazz studies student Jordan Williams was awarded a two-week residency to attend the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program at The Kennedy Center.