Cynthia Dowd received a $121,782 grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate a targeted method of treating malaria.
Evangeline Downie was named associate dean for academic assessment and support for the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences.
Ali Eskandarian, Valentina Harizanov and Jennifer Chubb, PhD ’09, co-edited and contributed to the book Logic and Algebraic Structures in Quantum Computing (Cambridge University Press, 2016.)
The 2015-2016 Columbian College Faculty Award Winners were: Denver Brunsman and Bethany Cobb-Kung (Morton A. Bender Teaching Award); Valentina Harizanov (Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Faculty Scholarship); Michael Horka, Jozefina Kalaj and Jin Ho Kim (Philip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award); and Christopher Klemek (Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence).
David S. Fallis was part of a Washington Post investigative reporting team that won a 2016 Pulitzer Prize.
Cassandra Alexis Good, MA ’05, received the 2016 Organization of American Historians Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History.
Kimberly Gross and SMPA students Sam Gubitz and Molly Hogan presented research projects at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference.
David Karpf presented a talk titled "Making Peace with Political Microtargeting" at the Yale Information Society Project Unlocking the Black Box conference.
Jessica Koscielniak, BFA ’07, won first-place in The White House News Photographers Association’s 2016 Eyes of History multimedia contest.
Stephen Mitroff received a $714,373 award from the U.S. Army Research Development & Engineering Command to examine learning and influences on performance in visual searches.
Mike Mochizuki co-authored “Japan: Still An Exceptional U.S. Ally” in the spring 2016 edition of The Washington Quarterly.
Harris Mylonas published "Never Alone/Find the Way" in the journal Cultural Anthropology.
Chitra Panjabi, MA ’10, was named president and CEO of SIECUS.
Kathryn Lee Ranhorn received a $5,800 grant from the Leakey Foundation to develop new approaches to the archaeology of modern human origins.
Kathryn (Katie) Rhine, BA ’02, published the book The Unseen Things: Women, Secrecy, and HIV in Northern Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2016).
Nina Seavey discussed her latest film project My Fugitive at the National Security Archive.
Gregory Squires co-authored “How Environmental Toxins Reduce Life Expectancy in Many American Neighborhoods” for the Scholars Strategy Network at Harvard University.
Janet Steele was named director of GW's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication.
Cheryl W. Thompson gave presentations on "Policing the Police" and "The Art of the Interview" at the National Association of Black Journalists regional conference.
Akos Vertes, postdoctoral scientist Andrew R. Korte and chemistry graduate student Sylwia A. Stopka were among the co-authors of the study “Molecular Imaging of Biological Samples on Nanophotonic Laser Desorption Ionization Platforms” in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
Gayle Wald was named an editor for 33 1/3, a book series by Bloomsbury Press.
Victor Weedn was award a $196,093 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility Program.