Kristin Adair, MA ’17, produced the documentary film Becoming Free, which premiered at the By The People festival in Washington, D.C.
Lynne Bernstein was awarded a $49,351 grant from SeeHear LLC and the National Institutes of Health for her project “Multi-Measure Speech Perception in Noise Chart: More Scores, Fewer Tests.”
Lisa Bowleg received a $3,226,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institutes on Drug Abuse for her research on reducing drug use among African American males and addressing related co-occurring negative mental and physical health issues.
Douglas Boyce’s new album Some Consequences of Four Incapacities was released by New Focus Recordings.
Keryn Gedan Bromberg received a $56,029 grant from the University of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to adapt agroecosystems to saltwater intrusion for mitigating nutrient losses from coastal farmlands.
Denver Brunsman presented “Hamilton, Washington, and the Creation of the United States” at Peters Township Public Library in McMurray, Penn.
Michael Freedman won a Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals International Radio Awards in the “Best Talk/Interview Special” category for his appearance on The Kalb Report.
Kerric Harvey presented “Some One Else's Selfie: Ethnographic Theatre Opportunities Using Every Social Media Technology” at the Royal Anthropological Institute Art, Materiality and Representation conference at the British Museum.
John Lill received a $140,623 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a project to protect the American chestnut through proactive taxonomy and phylogenetics of chestnut gall wasps.
Scott Powell was awarded a $287,849 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new framework for explaining how ant colonies create well-functioning transportation systems via a process of gradual modification rather than design.
Jonathan Scott Reeves was awarded a $12,355 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to document time-averaged patterns of hominin land-use through a movement ecology framework.
Frank Sesno authored the chapter “Finding Our Way” in Truth Counts: A Practical Guide for News Consumers.
John Sides received a $191,132 grant from the New Venture Fund to increase research-based coverage of global health, hunger and poverty in The Washington Post Monkey Cage blog.
Sam Slater, BA ’07, produced the theatrical feature film Hearts Beat Loud.
Janet Steele spoke on the East-West Center International Media Conference panel “How Islam is Shaping Media Coverage in Southeast Asia.” She also discussed her book Mediating Islam: Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia (University of Washington Press, 2018) at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
Cheryl W. Thompson was named president of the Investigative Reporters & Editors board of directors.
Malathi Thothathiri received a $1,663,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to research cognitive control and sentence processing among people with aphasia.
Nikki Usher co-authored “Twitter Makes It Worse: Political Journalists, Gendered Echo Chambers, and the Amplification of Gender Bias” in The International Journal of Press/Politics.
Huixia Judy Wang was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Maida Withers co-choreographed 60 Moves with Future Gaze for the 60th Anniversary Gala Celebration of the National Exhibition Center in Kiev, Ukraine.
Mika Yoshitake was featured as one of “The Top Curators You Need to Know in 2018” by Cultured Magazine.
Chen Zeng was awarded $35,794 from the University of Maryland for his work on critical transition-based correlation analysis for metabolomics.