Peg Barratt (Psychology) appeared on a panel with experts from the Solar Coolers International and the World Health Organization at the United National Climate Conference.
Christopher Cahill (Chemistry) entered into a $750,000 cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a nuclear science and engineering consortium for nonproliferation.
Carly Cooperman, BA ’07, (Political Communications) and Christina Sheffey, BA ’07, (Political Communications) were named on the American Association of Political Consultants’ 40 Under 40 Awards list.
Alexander B. Downes authored Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong (Cornell University Press, 2021).
Sylvain Guiriec (Physics) received a $75,657 grant from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for heliophysics and space environment research.
Valentina Harizanov (Mathematics) received a $42,000 grant from the Simons Foundation Collaboration to study topics in computable structure theory.
Oleg Kargaltsev (Physics) received a $62,995 grant from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to study a magnetar within a gamma-ray binary.
Vera Kuklina (Geography) received a $115,200 grant from the Research Council of Norway for a project studying urban sustainability in action using a multi-disciplinary approach through jointly organized research schools.
Huynh-Nhu (Mimi) Le (Psychology) received a $23,137 grant from the Clark Foundation for research with the Clark Mother-Baby Wellness Network.
Doctoral Student Andolyn Medina (Psychology) was featured by E! in the article “A Day in the Life: 3 Miss America Contestants Share What It's Like to Prep for the Iconic Competition.”
Graduate student Kalina Newman (Media and Strategic Communications) authored the article “The Metro Meltdown Made Us Commute Via Scooter and It Wasn’t Great,” for The Washingtonian.
The Entomological Society of America awarded third-year biology major Sarah Shamash first place for Best Undergraduate Poster for her research poster on the cascading effects of the Brood X cicada emergence. The society also awarded biology graduate student Vince Ficarrotta second place for his presentation on evolution, genetics and morphology.
Marya Sergeyevna Rozanova-Smith (Geography) received a $660,422 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in the Arctic.
Janet E. Steele (SMPA) received an $88,705 grant from the U.S. Department of State for a project to develop community reporting and increase ethnic and religious tolerance in Indonesia.
George Assaf Younes (Physics) was awarded a $40,000 grant from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for X-Ray monitoring of a magnetar.
Jung Yun (English) authored the novel O Beautiful (St. Martin's Press, 2021).