April 2017 Kudos

April 12, 2017

Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded to Anthropology’s Sarah Wagner for her projectBringing Them Home: The Identification and Commemoration of Vietnam War MIAs” and History and International Affairs’ Angela Zimmerman for her upcoming book Conjuring Freedom: A Subaltern and Transnational History of the American Civil War.

Several Human Services and Social Justice students received awards at GW Research Days 2017, including Sara Policastro (First Place: Nashman Prize; Second Place: Media and Cultural Studies), Victoria Rowe (First Place: Education, Business, and Organizational Studies), Theresa Cal (Second Place: Diversity and Inclusion) and Charleene Smith (Second Place: Nashman Prize).

Lynne Bernstein was awarded a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for her project “I-Corps Teams: Smart Speech Perception Feedback for Training and Diagnostics.”

Michael Bradley was awarded a $120,000 contract from the United States Postal Service for his work titled “Research on Product Costing Under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.”

Emma Briant presented her research at the Humboldt Colloquium in Washington, D.C., at the National Academy of Sciences.

Christopher Brick was awarded a $95,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his work on The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Audio Edition.

Data Science graduate student Kristina Brown was selected to attend the International Relations Career Challenge at King’s College London, U.K.

Mary Buckley was awarded the Writing in the Disciplines Assignment Design Award

Dana Tai Soon Burgess was honored by the Office of the Mayor of the City of Santa Fe who named March 18, 2017, “Dana Tai Soon Burgess Day.”

Kathleen Carrick was awarded a $26,875 grant from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Worldwide for her work with the AHF Scholars Project.

Kerric Harvey was appointed an adjudicator on the DC FilmFest awards committee.

Steven Livingston will be a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Politics and International Studies and the Centre of Governance & Human Rights. He published "Digital Affordances and Human Rights Investigations" and "Technology & Human Rights in the 21st Century" for Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and authored the Brookings blog post "Disinformation campaigns target tech-enabled citizen journalists."

Dr. Cheng Man (Bonnie) Lun’s, BS ’17, publication “Multitasking Immune Sp185/333 Protein, rSpTransformer-E1, and Its Recombinant Fragments Undergo Secondary Structural Transformation upon Binding Targets” was selected as a feature article in The Journal of Immunology.

Larry Medsker was awarded a $1,496,905 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project “STEM Teaching Excellence in High Need Schools: Teacher Preparation in the Nation's Capital.”

Alan Montroso was awarded the Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award.

Emily Morrison was awarded $60,000 from the Corporation for National and Community Service for her DC Community Conversations Project. She also received the Irwin Steans Center (DePaul University) Chicago Service Learning Research Fellowship.

Chitra Panjabi, MA ’10, published the article “Stop Missing the Point: Sex Ed Is a Human Right” on the Rewire website.

Alexander Pyron had a new species of snake named after him—Atractus pyroni—in recognition of his research and contributions to snake biology.

Richard Ruth received the American Psychological Association’s Division 39 Multicultural Concerns Committee Diversity Award.

Cheryl W. Thompson moderated a panel on "Investigating bias and influence in criminal justice: Police and prosecutors" at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference. She also served as a panelist on "IRE Conversations: Investigative Journalism in the Trump Era" at the University of Missouri.

Nikki Usher’s book Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code (University of Illinois Press, 2016) was reviewed in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.

Kelly Vaile, BA ’13, was been named a Success Academy Charter Schools Excellence Award Winner.

Abdourahman A. Waberi received the "Chevalier" Order of Arts and Letter Medal from French Culture Minister. He also hosted a discussion at the NeMLA March 2017 Conference.

Silvio Waisbord spoke at the Israel Democracy Institute conference Public Time and Media Temporalities in an Age of Acceleration.