March 2015 Spotlight

March 1, 2015

Eric Arnesen wrote the article “The Lessons of Pullman, A. Philip Randolph, Workers, and America” for the web magazine We’re History.

Donna Betts and Jordan Potash published “An Art Therapy Study of Visitor Reactions to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” in the journal Museum Management and Curatorship.

Shelley Brundage was interviewed for “Real Enough: Virtual Reality with People Who Stutter” on the StutterTalk podcast.

Christopher L. Cahill was selected as the American Institute of Physics State Department Science Fellow for 2015-2016, and was the GW student-athletes' choice for 2014 Professor of the Year.

A team of economics graduate students won Second Place at the National Association of Business Economics - Crisis Game competition at Brandeis University.

Kimberly Gilbert, MFA ’01, and Dawn Ursula, MFA ’07, were nominated for a Helen Hayes Award in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play category.

Casey Given, a graduate student in public policy, wrote “Title II reclassification harms innovation and the poor’’ for the Congressional blog The Hill.

The GW Solar Institute’s new report “Bridging the Solar Income Gap” was featured in the CleanTechnica article “6 Ways to Expand Solar into Lower Income Communities.”

Muriel Hasbun received a $3,000 prize for the 2015 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in photography.

Gustavo Hormiga was awarded a $487,536 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on the phylogeny and diversification of orb weaving spiders.

Oleg Kargaltsev received a $50,415 grant from the Smithsonian Institution for his snap-shot survey of unidentified sources from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope.

Kathryn Kleppinger was selected to receive the 2015 Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Teaching Award.

Steven Livingston will be a Canterbury Fellow at University of Canterbury, New Zealand, this summer. He will also give the keynote address at the Australia-New Zealand International Communication Association meeting in July. In the fall, he will be a senior research fellow at the Collaborative Research Center for the Study of Areas of Limited Statehood in Berlin.

Ira Lurie received the Paul L. Kirk Award, the highest honor from the Criminalistics Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

English PhD Candidate Leigha McReynolds won this year's Phillip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award.

Tim Miller, BA ’04, was named a senior advisor for Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise PAC.

Political science PhD student and graduate teaching assistant Dorothy Smith Ohl received the inaugural 2015 Writing in the Disciplines Graduate Teaching Award.

Caitlin Talmadge and political science graduate student Varun Piplani published their paper “When War Helps Civil-Military Relations: Prolonged Interstate Conflicts and the Reduced Risk of Coups” in The Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Emily Thorson will launch a new column for Politico that explores groundbreaking political science research.

Akos Vertes and chemistry PhD candidate Hang (Amy) Li assisted high school student Pranav Balan whose abstract was selected for an oral presentation at the 2015 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference.

Victor Weedn was inaugurated as the president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences at the AAFS Annual Business Meeting.

Political science PhD candidate Madeline Wells authored the article “The Houthis and the risks of internationalizing the Yemeni crisis” for the online journal The Conversation.