Andrei Alexandru (Physics) received a $285,023 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for his project on Qcd, the theory of the strong interaction between quarks and gluons, involving quantum simulators and computers.
Babak Bahador (Media & Public Affairs) published the article “Classifying and Identifying the intensity of Hate Speech” with the Social Science Research Council.
Anna Boone, BA ’22, (Media & Public Affairs) was quoted by The New York Times in the article “A Looming Drinksgiving Disaster.”
Douglas Boyce (Music) released the album Against Method with the musical group counter)induction.
Dana Tai Soon Burgess (Theatre & Dance) was featured in the documentary Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company: Passages from the Journey.
Sam Ashworth, Jennifer Chang and Aaron Hamburger (English) were recipients of 2021 DC Arts & Humanities fellowships.
Elizabeth Chacko (Geography) received a $29,968 grant from the Social Science Research Council for a project on pandemics and migrant precarity.
Evangeline Downie (Physics) was appointed to the U.S. Department of Energy/National Science Foundation Nuclear Science Advisory Committee.
Yael Dresdner, BFA ’83, (Visual Communications) received a Mercedes Matter Award for her painting “Split Torso.”
Edward P. Jones (English) was featured in The New Yorker’s “The Best Books We Read in 2020” for his Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Known World.
Chryssa Kouveliotou (Physics) received a $20,060 grant from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to study light echoes from neutron stars called magnetars.
Chang Liu (Psychology) received a $135,276 grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify dynamic change processes in growth trajectories from infancy to early adolescence.
Christopher C. Miller, BA ’87, (History) was featured in the Fox News article “Who is Christopher C. Miller, the new acting US secretary of Defense?”
Junior Catherine Morris (Media & Public Affairs) authored the article “Gen Z is pissed. And our first vote is finally here” for The Fulcrum.
Bibiana Obler (Art History) created the exhibition “Fast Fashion/Slow Art” at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. It was highlighted in Artforum’s “Best of 2020” list.
Ryan Patterson, BA ’21, (Organizational Sciences) was quoted by Fox10-Phoenix in the article “Retired Southwest pilot mentors aviation photographer, gets picturesque sendoff in return.”
Nina Seavey (Media & Public Affairs) published the essay “The Promise” in the literary journal Minerva Rising.
Ormond Seavey (English) authored the book Henry Adams in Washington (University of Virginia Press).
Janet Steele (Media & Public Affairs) interviewed international journalists on “Covering Crisis, Resistance versus Independence” for the virtual Journalism Under Fire symposium. She also received a $124,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State to host the Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship Program on Media and Information.
Michael Svoboda (University Writing) wrote the article “Books, reports for jump-starting U.S. climate action in 2021” for Yale Climate Connections.
Cheryl W. Thompson (Media & Public Affairs) guest lectured at the University of Utah and Boston University on investigative journalism.
Greg Squires (Sociology) authored the articles “The Urgent Public Health Need to Extend Eviction Moratoria and Mortgage Forbearance Programs" (PDF) with the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and “Pollution, Place, and the Unnecessary Tragedy of Premature Death: Lessons for COVID-19” for Planetizen.
Amulya Yaparl, PhD ’20, (Biology) was selected for the 2020 Chorafas Foundation Award.
George Assaf Younes (Physics) received a $75,000 grant from the NASA-Stennis Space Center to study x-ray bursts from pulsars.