Andrei Afanasev received a $14,961 grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research And Materiel Command to study laser-driven radiation sources for nuclear applications.
Rachel Brody, MPA ’12, contributed to the Deloitte University Press web article "The Regulator of Tomorrow: Rulemaking and Enforcement in an Era of Exponential Change."
Alisha Camacho, BA ’14, is leading an online documentary series on the Anacostia River community entitled Anacostia Unplugged.
Fiacre Douglas, MA ’15, was recognized by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for his work at The River School in Washington, D.C.
Stephen Forssell was named the 2015 recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Education and Training Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues of the American Psychological Association.
Roy Richard Grinker published the article “Notes on a Puzzle Piece” in the online journal Autism.
Eric Grynaviski won the American Political Science Association's 2015 Jervis-Schroeder Best Book Prize for his book Constructive Illusions: Misperceiving the Origins of International Cooperation (Cornell University Press, 2014).
Political Science PhD candidate Lisel Hintz published the article “’Take it outside!’ National identity contestation in the foreign policy arena,” in The European Journal of International Relations.
Catherine Jessen, BA ’15, co-authored the book Youth’s Highest Honor: Your Guide to the Congressional Award and Building Life Skills (Round 2 Publishing, 2015).
Oleg Kargaltsev was awarded a $58,925 grant from the Smithsonian Institution to investigate x-ray counterparts of puzzling Gev-Tev sources.
Chryssa Kouveliotou organized the first Capitol Chat meeting on gamma-ray burst observations and theory.
Joel Kuipers was awarded a $19,982 grant by the National Science Foundation for research on his doctoral dissertation, “Waste-to-Energy: On Toxicity and Historicity in South Baltimore City.”
Graphic Design BFA student Fred Lameck was selected as a recipient of The AIGA DC Continuum Award, a $2,500 scholarship through the Worldstudio AIGA 2015-16 Scholarship Program.
Kip Lornell participated in a discussion on go-go music in Washington, D.C., as part of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s America Now! Music Festival.
Speech and Hearing MA student Sara Pool won first place at the 2015 Student Ethics Essay Awards sponsored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for her essay entitled "Privacy Please: Confidentiality and Transgender Identities.”
Sylwia Stopka was named a Danaher Corporation Scholar of the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (MWC/ARCS) Foundation for 2015-16.
Cheryl W. Thompson was elected to the board of Investigators Reporters and Editors and to the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Maida Withers’ film TUK (Tukuhnikivatz) was screened at the Mykonos Biennale in Mykonos, Greece.