Eric Arnesen (History) was named director of the American Historical Association's National History Center.
PhD candidate Sara Awartani (American Studies) received a Harvard University Warren Center postdoc in Global American Studies.
Senior James Bacon was featured by Politico in the article “A new senior leader at the White House personnel office: A college senior.”
PhD candidate Nicolas Hazzi Campo (Biology) was awarded an early career National Geographic Society grant to support his dissertation project "Species delimitation, evolution and biogeography of Phoneutria (Ctenidae), one of the world’s most venomous spiders.”
Eric Cline (Anthropology) authored the book Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon (Princeton University Press, 2020).
David DeGrazia (Philosophy) co-authored the book Principles of Animal Research Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Mohssen Esseesy (Classical and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) wrote the book Al-Munjiz: Advanced Business Arabic (Georgetown University Press, 2020).
Jenney Fazande, MA ’13, (Exhibition Design) was featured by NBC News in the article “Jenney Fazande is the first black woman in her role at the WWII Museum — and she has a message for her younger self.”
Murli Gupta (Mathematics) published “High accuracy compact difference schemes for differential equations in mathematical sciences” in Annals of Mathematical Sciences and Applications.
Chryssa Kouveliotou (Physics) was named a Legacy Fellow by the American Astronomical Society.
Sophomore Eve Levenson (Political Science) was quoted by U.S. News & World Report in the article “Gun Control Stalls in Florida Despite Efforts After Parkland Shooting.”
Sally Nuamah, BA ‘11, (Political Science) won a 2020 PROSE Award in the Education Practice category for her book How Girls Achieve. She was profiled in the CCAS Spotlight newsmagazine.
Erica Rebollar (Arts & Design) and her dance company RebollarDance are performing Variations at the Kennedy Center as part of the Direct Currents Festival.
Axel Schmidt (Physics) co-authored the article “Probing the core of the strong nuclear interaction” in Nature.
Cheryl W. Thompson (Media & Public Affairs) delivered the keynote address at the FOIA Fest at Loyola University in Chicago.
Silvio Waisbord (Media & Public Affairs) gave the inaugural Communication Annual Lecture, “Post-Disciplinarity and Public Scholarship in Communication Studies,” in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts.
George Younes (Physics) received a $44,650 grant from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and NASA-Goddard for the Chandra X-ray spectrum observations of the Magnetar SGR 0755-2933.