Junior Nana Agyemang and senior Farida Fawzy were the first recipients of the J. Michael Shanahan Journalism Internship Fund.
Charlene Bickford won a $152,582 grant from the National Archives and Records Administration for the First Federal Congress Project.
Senior Caitlyn Borghi received a Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Award for 2015.
Neuroscience PhD candidates Marine Bouyssi-Kobar and Alejandra Fernandez, Political Science PhD candidate Fabiana Sofia Perera and Biomedical Sciences PhD candidate Maria Candida Vila were inducted into the Bouchet Honor Graduate Society at the annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education. Bouyssi-Kobar won best oral presentation in her category and Vila won for best poster presentation.
Douglas Boyce’s composition Alcyone was performed in by the Aeolus Quartet, Juilliard’s graduate resident string quartet, for the 22nd Annual Lisa Arnhold Memorial Recital, Death and Transfiguration.
American Studies PhD student Ashley Brown won the Graduate Student Essay Award from the North American Society for Sport History.
MFA student Nakeya Brown was profiled in the New York Magazine article “Photographer Nakeya Brown Explores Black Hair.”
A portrait of Dana Tai Soon Burgess is among the works featured in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, Eye Pop: The Celebrity Gaze.
Carmel Chiswick appeared on the Research on Religion Podcast to discuss her book, Judaism in Transition (Stanford University Press, 2014).
James Clark won a $19,154 grant from the National Science Foundation to research the extinction of the Archosauria.
Eric Cline will be awarded an honorary degree from Muhlenberg College at its 2015 commencement ceremony.
Jamie Cohen-Cole’s book, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature (University of Chicago Press, 2014), received honorable mention from the Organization of American Historians for the Frederick Jackson Turner prize for best first book of 2014.
Joseph Cordes, Marvin Phaup and Holly Sun, PhD ’14, presented at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University – Bloomington’s conference, Federal, State, and Local Budgets in Jeopardy: A Conference on America's Fiscal Future.
Photos by Samuel Corum, BFA ’12, of the Baltimore protest appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ and on The Daily Show.
Jacqueline Drayer, a BA/MA student in American Studies, was awarded a Fulbright Study Research Grant.
Sophomore Bo Erickson wrote the opinion piece “Fraternity brother: Bad headlines about Greek life are good for us” for The Washington Post.
Keith Feldman, MA ’03, authored the book A Shadow over Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2015).
Evgeny Finkel’s article “The Phoenix Effect of State Repression: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust” was published in American Political Science Review.
Kara Frame, MA ’15, was featured by VICE News in “In Photos: How PTSD Has Afflicted Three Vietnam Veterans and Their Families.”
The GW team representing the Mid-Atlantic Division of the Association of American Geographers placed third in the World Geography Bowl. Christopher Hart was named Most Valuable Player and Kean McDermott won a prize for his performance.
Matthew Hindman published “Stickier News: What Newspapers Don’t Know about Web Traffic Has Hurt Them Badly – But There is a Better Way” for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
David Kieran, PhD ’09, was chosen a fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah in 2015-2016. Starting in the fall of 2016, he will be assistant professor of 20th century U.S. history at Washington & Jefferson College.
Senior John Kopriva was named the male recipient of the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association 2015 Postgraduate Scholarship.
Chryssa Kouveliotou delivered a lecture to the GW Society of Physics Students’ SPS Zone meeting.
Jihae Kwon, MA ’14, had her thesis book project You Are With Me acquired by the George Mason University, Fenwick Library, Artists' Book Collection.
Steven Livingston won the 2015 Staub Faculty Excellence Award for outstanding achievement in effective teaching and effectiveness in advising, mentoring and service roles.
Kimberly Morgan and Political Science PhD candidate Alexander Reisenbichler published a chapter entitled “The German Labor Market: No Longer the Sick Man of Europe” in an e-book on the German economy.
James Mueller wrote an op-ed for PV-Tech entitled “A softer solar landing after 2016.”
Peter Nemes received a $395,853 grant from the National Science Foundation to support research in microsampling single-cell mass spectrometry for examining cells in the developing embryo. He also co-authored “Single-cell mass spectrometry reveals small molecules that affect cell fates in the 16-cell embryo,” which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Phil Raino, MA ’06, and Museum Studies certificate student Susan Smith premiered an exhibition at Gelman Library entitled “Remembering the Holocaust.”
Sophomore Communication major Lauren Shiplett was named a 2015 Frank Karel Fellows in Public Interest Communications.
Madeleine Wells, Political Science PhD candidate, authored the article “Sectarianism and authoritarianism in Kuwait” in The Washington Post.