Two TSPPPA students served as Mayoral Fellows for the City of Baltimore: Joshua Alvarez, MPA ’16, was with the Office of Boards and Commissions and Erin Cox, MPP ’14, worked in the Mayor's Office of Immigrant and Multicultural Affairs.
Mercedes Ballbé ter Maat, MA ’86, Charlotte G. Boston, Cheryl Doby-Copeland, Jordan S. Potash, Gwendolyn M. Short and Lindsey D. Vance, MA ’10, were among the authors of “Advancing Multicultural and Diversity Competence in Art Therapy: American Art Therapy Association Multicultural Committee 1990–2015” in Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association.
Brandon Bartels co-authored two articles with recent PhD graduates: "Lawyers' Perceptions of the U.S. Supreme Court: Is the Court a 'Political' Institution?" for Law & Society Review with Alyx Mark, PhD ’15; and “Public Opinion, Policy Tools, and the Status Quo: Evidence from a Survey Experiment" in Political Research Quarterly with Jake Haselswerdt, PhD ’14.
Donna Betts co-authored the article “The Adult Coloring Book Phenomenon” for the 3BL Media website, featuring artwork by Lisa Raye Garlock.
Christopher Edward Brick was awarded a $182,813 grant from the National Archives and Records Administration for the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers project.
William Briscoe was awarded a $286,000 grant from the Department of Energy to support a data analysis center for hadronic and electromagnetic interactions.
Clare Brown and Naomi Clare Crellin were advisors for students design projects that won two awards at the PR News Awards for Corporate Social Responsibility, in partnership with the Footprint Program of the International Finance Corporation.
We Choose to go to the Moon by Dana Tai Soon Burgess, will premiere at the. Kennedy Center in D.C. on September 19.
Kavita Daiya will be the NEH Endowed Chair in the Humanities during the 2015-2016 academic year at Albright College.
Alexander Dent won a $248,155 award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Cellular Connections: Phone Trouble and its Repair among Teens in Washington DC.”
Paul B. Duff authored the book Moses in Corinth: The Apologetic Context of 2 Corinthians 3 (Brill, 2015).
Eric Grynaviski published "Brokering Cooperation: Intermediaries and US Cooperation with Non-State Allies, 1776–1945" in European Journal of International Relations.
Henry Hale received a $199,832 grant from the National Science Foundation's Political Science program for his project "RAPID: Russia Panel Survey 2015."
Kerric Harvey presented a paper entitled "The Interrogation Initiative: An Experiment in Virtualizing Playback Theatre for Conflict Resolution" at the 10th International Conference on the Arts in Society, Imperial College in London.
Dave Karpf authored two articles for the online journal Civicist: "Parsing Upworthy's Big Pivot" and "White House Hits Reset Button on WETHEPEOPLE."
National Council Member John Lansing was named chief executive officer and director of the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Daniel E. Martínez wrote the article “Coyote use in an era of heightened border enforcement: New evidence from the Arizona-Sonora border” for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Shannon McFarlin received a $371,517 grant from the National Science Foundation for her research on the physical ontogeny and life history of wild mountain and western gorillas.
Kathy Newcomer was elected president elect of the American Evaluation Association. In addition, she authored the book Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation, 4th Edition (Wiley, 2015).
Jay Shambaugh joined the White House Council of Economic Advisers, which provides economic analysis and advice to President Barack Obama.
Sarah Shomstein was awarded a $564,472 grant from the National Science Foundation to determine how attentional allocation is structured in the face of uncertainty.
Lizbeth Courtney Smith received a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the diversity of animal immunity and somatic DNA modifications in the sea urchin.
Rachel Stein published "War and Revenge: Explaining Conflict Initiation by Democracies" in American Political Science Review.
Cheryl W. Thompson was elected to the Investigative and Editors board for a two-year term and to the Fund for Investigative Journalism for a three-year term.
Nikki Usher won two awards: the 2015 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Junior Scholar Award and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Tankard Book Award.
Akos Vertes won a $380,832 grant from the Curators of the University Of Missouri for the development and refinement of a “molecular microscope” capability based on ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry.
Silvio Waisbord published the editorial "My vision for the Journal of Communication" in Journal of Communication.
Bernard Welt presented on “Unauthorized Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams in Classic Cinema” at the 32nd Annual International Conference for the Study of Dreams.
Michael Worth published the book Fundraising Principles and Practice (SAGE, 2015).