Andrei Afanasev received a $19,953 grant from the U.S. Department of the Army to research isotope-based energy sources. He also co-authored the article “High-multipole excitations of hydrogen-like atoms by twisted photons near a phase singularity” in the Journal of Optics.
Alison S. Brooks received the Medal of Honor (Médaille d'Honneur) of the City of Toulouse for contributions to the archaeology of Africa at the 23rd biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists at the Université Jean Jaurés.
Fran Buntman delivered the keynote address "Prison and Law, Repression and Resistance” at the Colonial Incarceration in the 20th Century Conference in Lisbon.
Jonathan Chaves contributed to the book 17th Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection (DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2016).
James M. Clark received a $279,868 grant from the National Science Foundation to study Triassic-Jurassic fossils and the origins of the crocodilian skull.
Alison Crockett performed at Twins Jazz in Washington, D.C.
Keryn Gedan was awarded $110,341 by the U.S. Department of Commerce for her research on biodiversity and blue carbon in the face of sea-level rise and barrier-island migration.
Henry E. Hale wrote the article “Twenty-Five Years after the USSR: What’s Gone Wrong?” in the Journal of Democracy.
Valentina Harizanov received a $35,000 grant from the Simons Foundation to study computability in algebraic structures.
Steven Livingston authored "Satellite imagery augments power and responsibility of human rights groups" on the Brookings TechTank blog.
Shannon McFarlin received a $13,691 grant from the National Science Foundation for her research on enamel hypoplasia in wild mountain gorillas, and $2,400 from the Nacey Maggioncalda Foundation for a study titled “Weaning in mountain gorillas: A methodological test of barium distributions in enamel.”
Peter Nemes and chemistry PhD student Camille Lombard-Banek co-authored the article “Label-free Quantification of Proteins in Single Embryonic Cells with Neural Fate in the Cleavage-Stage Frog (Xenopus laevis) Embryo using Capillary Electrophoresis Electrospray Ionization High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry (CE-ESI-HRMS)” in the journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.
Weiqun Peng received a $581,487 grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore the proteins Tcf1/Lef1 and beta-catenin in follicular helper T-cells.
Xiangyun Qiu received a $397,093 grant from the National Science Foundation for his study on elucidating chromatin, a highly dynamic nucleoprotein complex of DNA and proteins that controls DNA-dependent processes.
Sanjit Sethi was awarded $60,000 from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation for his work titled “Reimagining Youth Directed Arts Education: A Fellowship Collaborative.”
Sarah Wagner received a $24,973 grant from the National Science Foundation for her study “Displace or at Home? Border Crossing and Displacement in the Georgia-Abkhazia Borderland.”
Maida Withers’ Dance Construction Company presented Glacial Drift, a multimedia performance, as part of the National Building Museum’s Icebergs Exhibition Late Nights Series.
Bernard Wood received a $3,415 grant from the National Science Foundation for a research study titled “Trees from Teeth: Reconstructing evolutionary relationships with dental microstructure.”
Maria Cecilia Zea was awarded $594,827 from the National Institute of Mental Health for a webnovela-based intervention program to promote HIV testing among at-risk Colombian men.