New faculty fellowships were awarded to Joel Blecher (Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress), Judy Huixia Wang (American Statistical Association Fellow), Abby Wilkerson (Association for the Study of Food and Society Fellow), Daqing Yang (Max Planck Institute Research Fellow for the History of Science in Berlin) and Diane Cline (Harvard Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies). Cline also received a Fulbright Scholarship for her work in Greece.
Andrei Alexandru received a $298,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to support his work on nuclear physics calculations from QCD.
Bob Asztalos, BA ’85, MA ’89, was profiled in INFLUENCE Florida Magazine
Christopher Brick was awarded a $195,122 grant from the National Archives and Records Administration for his work on the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project.
Denver Brunsman and sophomores from his Dean’s Seminar on the War of 1812 wrote original Wikipedia entries on the war, including “Opposition to the War of 1812 in the United States” and “Robert Runchy.”
Jennifer Chang won the 2018 Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award and had her poem “We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once” published in the April 23 edition of The New Yorker.
Jonathan Chaves gave a reading of his poems and translations from his book Cave of the Immortals, on Chinese painter-poet Wen Tong (1019-1079) at the West End Library in Washington, D.C.
Eric Cline’s book 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed has sold 100,000 copies since its publication in 2014.
Steve Elfers won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on interactive video at the U.S. border for the USA Today Network.
Robert Entman co-authored “Framing in a Fractured Democracy: Impacts of Digital Technology on Ideology, Power and Cascading Network Activation” with Nikki Usher in the Journal of Communication.
Beatrice Fischel-Bock, BA ’13, was sited by Forbes in the article “How This '30 Under 30' Hutch CEO Empowers Her Team And Gives Women A Seat At The Table.”
Kerric Harvey was the expert speaker at the Olney Theatre Company's Behind-the-Scenes: A Larger Context.
Oleg Kargaltsev was awarded a $42,236 grant from NASA Goddard LOC for his examination of bright X-ray counterparts of galactic 3FGL sources.
Steven Livingston chaired the International Studies Association Conference panel “Power and Counter Power: State Responses to Digitally Enabled Non-State Actors,” and organized the conference “Contentious Narratives: Digital Technology and the Attack on Democratic Norms.”
Patricia Phalen won first place in the Broadcast Education Association Open Competition for her paper “Who Has Power Over the Text? A Comparative Study of the Role of Television Writers in America and France.”
Marie Price was a keynote speaker at the United Nations Commission of Population and Development.
Meghan Scott, MFA '15, was featured in the Boutique Design article “Interior Architecture Alumni Nominated as Boutique 18 Up-and-Coming Designer.”
Adam Smith was awarded a three-year, $351,266 research grant from the National Science Foundation for his research on the effects of social behavior on brain evolution in bees.
Gregory Squires received the 2018 Urban Affairs Association award for his contribution to the field of urban affairs.
Janet Steele presented the keynote address at the Journalism in Asia symposium at the University of Houston.
Bryan Stuart received the Population Association of America Award for his research on the interrelationships among social, economic and demographic variables.
Cheryl W. Thompson gave the presentations “Everyday Watchdog” and “Finding Data and Documents” at the 2018 Investigative Reporters and Editors Atlanta Watchdog Workshop and the National Association of Black Journalists Region III Conference.
Nikki Usher presented a lecture on “Media and Foreign Policy” at St. Norbert College (Wisconsin) and spoke on several panels (1, 2, 3) at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.
Silvio Waisbord published "From Health to Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela: Options for the International Community" in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs and “Revisiting mediated activism” in Sociology Compass. He also gave the presentation "Who Cares? When Society Fails to Safeguard Journalists at Risk" at the launch of the Center for Media at Risk at the University of Pennsylvania.