Elizabeth Acevedo, BA ’10, (Special Interdisciplinary Program) was featured in The New York Times article “Caught Between Worlds? For Elizabeth Acevedo, It’s a Familiar Feeling.”
Andrei Afanasev (Physics) was issued a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a method to develop a solar cell using quantum dots.
Alumna Marilee Shapiro Asher (Arts & Design) was featured by The Washington Post in the article “At 107, this artist just beat covid-19. It was the second pandemic she survived.”
Michael J. Bamdad (Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences) was elected president of the Council on Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Jeffrey Blomster (Anthropology) received two grants: $25,200 from the National Science Foundation for research on early urbanism and long-term technological change in material culture; and $7,200 from the Rust Family Foundation for analyzing ceramic and figurine artwork from Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Alison Brooks (Anthropology) was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, joining the country’s leading researchers in one of the highest professional honors among scientists.
First-year student Roni Edni was quoted by ABC News in the article “More students are now considering college gap year because of COVID-19.”
PhD candidate Shahryar Pasandideh Gholamali (Political Science) received a $7,500 grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation to study how military technology is measured, countermeasured and misperceived in international politics.
PhD candidate Danielle Gilbert (Political Science) received a $7,500 grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation to study the logic of coercive kidnapping.
Emily Green, BA ’06, (Political Communication) won a Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting for the This American Life episode “The Out Crowd.”
Elana Lyn Gross, BA ’11, (Criminal Justice) authored the book What Next?: Your Five-Year Plan for Life After College (Simon & Schuster, 2020).
Valentina Harizanov (Mathematics) received the 2020 George Washington Award for faculty during the Excellence in Student Life Awards reception.
Patricia Hernandez (Biology) was elected president of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Yahia Lababidi, BA ’96, (English) published the book Revolutions of the Heart (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020).
The Project On Ethics In Political Communication, supported by the School of Media and Public Affairs, published its first case study, Campaigning for Your Enemies.
The Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service announced award winners at its Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship. Among the Columbian College winners were: Geography students Jacob Tafrate and Elizabeth Szafranski, who won first place in the Nashman Prize for Community Based Participatory Research; and Neuroscience/Psychology and Brain Sciences majors Benjamin Turley and Sam Gritz, who tied for second place. The Community Engaged Scholarship Exemplars included CCAS students Sophie Clemens (Human Services & Social Justice), Shayna Druckman (Human Services & Social Justice), Grayson Hussong (Political Science and Human Services & Social Justice), Addie Abdel Jawad (Biology) and Allen Wang (Math).
The GW Chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) was awarded Bronze Chapter Honors by the National NSSLHA Executive Council.
Nina Seavey (Media & Public Affairs, Documentary Center Director) made her film A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America available to stream for free online. It has received more than 10,000 views.
Joseph Steigman, BA ’10, (Political Science) published the book Ninety Day Adventure: Army Trainers in Somalia.
Sarah Wagner (Anthropology) received a $97,509 grant from the National Science Foundation to study funerary practices, pandemic confinement and the implications for COVID-19 transmission.
Senior Leora Weitzman (Psychological and Brain Sciences; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) was quoted by Slate in the article “Zoom Pranks on Professors, Wild PowerPoint Parties, and a Billion Memes.”