Charlene Bickford was awarded a $40,758 grant from the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and a $8,339 grant from the National Parks Of New York Harbor Conservancy to support the First Federal Congress Project.
Eric Cline co-authored the article “Drought and unrest sparked global societal collapse in the Bronze Age. Is it happening again?” for the online journal Quartz.
Nuala Margaret Cowan was awarded a $96,281 grant from the Global Development Lab at USAID for “Mappers Without Borders,” a consortium to create map-based data to support development programs and humanitarian responses.
Carl Gudenius, Sigridur Johannesdottir and John Traub worked with David Robinson, MFA ’05, to deliver scenic and lighting support for CNN’s “Guns in America” Town Hall Meeting with President Obama.
Dane Keith Kennedy was awarded a $29,184 contract from Queen Mary University of London for “Savage Warfare: A Cultural History of British and American Colonial Campaigns 1885-1914.”
Political science PhD student Dorothy Ohl co-authored The Washington Post article “The Syrian military has thousands of deserters. New research tells us why they left.’’
Marvin Phaup, Christopher Smith, MPP ’86, and Ronald E. Walters, MPP ’86, were inducted into the 2015 class of National Academy of Public Administration Fellows.
Mehdi Moini gave a presentation at the IAEA Technical Meeting on Investigating Heritage Materials With Safer Ion And Photon Beam Experiments held at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Walter Rowe presented a talk on “Forensic Follies: The Dark Side of CSI” at the National Capital Area Skeptics Club.
Michael Svoboda wrote the article “Cli-fi on the screen(s): patterns in the representations of climate change in fictional films?” for the journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change.
Akos Vertes’ research on mass spectrometry was highlighted in the Science magazine article “Single-cell biology: The power of one.”
Sarah E. Wagner was awarded a $9,405 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for her research project “The Gift of Death: Violent Conflict and the Obligations of Care.”
Victor Weedn participated in the Medicolegal Death Investigation Subcommittee for the National Commission on Forensic Science.
Kaitlin Rose Wellens was awarded a $14,300 grant from the Leakey Foundation to investigate maternal effects on juvenile chimpanzee social behavior and physiological stress.