Elizabeth Acevedo, BA ’10, was named a 2015 Women of Distinction by the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders.
MFA student Nakeya Brown was featured in The Washington Post article “Telling ‘Untold’ stories of womanhood and the politics of Black hair.”
Dylan Conger was named managing editor of The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Alexander Downes is the recipient of the International Studies Association's International Security Studies Section Emerging Scholar Award.
Edward P. Jones received the Near South Planning Board's Harold Washington Literary Award at the Printers Row Lit Fest.
Chryssa Kouveliotou was elected as a foreign member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).
Political science PhD candidate Barnett Koven received the 2014 Special Recognition Harold D. Lasswell Award from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for his project, “Development Projects, Relative Deprivation, and Insurgent Violence: The Cases of Peru (1980-1992), Colombia (1964-Present), Iraq (2003-2011), and Afghanistan (2001-2011).”
Deborah Lehr appeared on Westwood One’s “The Jim Bohannon Show” to discuss the destruction and looting of antiquities worldwide.
Stuart Licht was awarded a $251,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to investigate ways to transform the Navy's energy and fuel chain.
Peter D. Linquiti authored the book The Public Sector R&D Enterprise: A New Approach to Portfolio Valuation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2105).
Robert McRuer and David Mitchell were among the inaugural recipients of the Awards for Outstanding Journal Reviewers by Liverpool University Press.
Guillermo Orti received a $397,896 National Science Foundation grant for collaborative research on the role of habitat transitions in parallel marine fish radiations.
Kelly Pemberton gave a lecture on "Religion, Gender, and Environmentalism in the MENA: Old Frontiers and New Directions" at the American University of Kuwait.
Protea announced a new, silicon chip technology that enables the rapid identification and quantitation of small molecules in biofluids. The chip employs a nanotechnology invented in the lab of Akos Vertes.
Elizabeth Saunders won the 2015 Best Paper Award from American Political Science Association's Foreign Policy for co-authoring “Mapping the Boundaries of Elite Cues: How Elites Shape Mass Opinion Across International Issues.”
John Sides hosted a forum celebrating the 50th anniversary of SAGE. Kerric Harvey was among the forum’s speakers.