Imani M. Cheers presented her research on "African American Women as a Television Audience" at the 2014 Broadcast Education Association Convention.
Joel Darmstadter, BA ’50, was named the 2014 recipient of the Adelman-Frankel Award by the United States Association for Energy Economics.
Alexander Dumbadze’s book, Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere (University of Chicago Press), received a positive review in Art in America.
Catherine Forster received a $17,531 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on Iguanodontian dinosaurs with doctoral candidate Karen Poole.
Feifang Hu received $108,807 from the National Science Foundation for a project on discovering new designs and their properties based upon covariate information.
Oleg Kargaltsev co-wrote the article “XMM-Newton and Chandra Observations of the Ejecta-Dominated Mixed-Morphology Galactic Supernova Remnant,” published in Astrophysical Journal. Among his co-authors was undergraduate student Derek Brehm.
Christopher Klemek was awarded the Spiro Kostof Book Award by the Society of Architectural Historians for his book Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal (University of Chicago Press).
Mehdi Moini received a $222,388 grant from the National Science Foundation for work on dating museum specimens.
Harris Mylonas’s book, The Politics of Nation-Building (Cambridge University Press), was awarded an honorable mention by the Rothschild Prize in Nationalities and Ethnic Studies Committee at the 2014 Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention.
Political Science PhD student Fabiana Perera was selected as one of 24 inaugural recipients of Humanity in Action’s Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship.
Richard Ruth co-edited the book Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers).
Nina Seavey received a $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for post- production for the film Healing Wars.
Frank Sesno moderated “Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss,” the Hospice Foundation of America’s 2014 Annual Living With Grief Program.
Gregory Squires co-authored the report, “Underwater America: How the So-Called Housing ‘Recovery’ is Bypassing Many Communities,” issued by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley.
Janet Steele and her Theory and Practice of Journalism class were interviewed by Swedish TV for a piece about the news coverage of missing Malaysian airliner.
Cheryl W. Thompson won The Honey Nashman Spark A Life Award for Faculty Member of the Year, given to a GW faculty member who has significantly impacted the holistic development of a student.
Chriselle Tidrick, BA ’94, served as the GW Spring Guest Artist in the Department of Theatre and Dance and worked with GW students to perform her aerial dance piece at the Spring DanceWorks concert.
Nikki Usher authored the book, Making News at The New York Times (University of Michigan Press). She also presented a panel discussion on her Tow Center Tow/Knight Project “Newsroom Places and Spaces” at Columbia University.