January 2015 Spotlight

January 1, 2015

Mary Jo Binker co-authored the article “This Is What Ken Burns Neglected to Tell You About Eleanor Roosevelt” for TIME magazine.

Barry Chiswick edited the Handbook of the Economics of International Migration (North Holland, 2015).

Elizabeth Fisher contributed to the newly released third edition of Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek (Oxford University Press).

The GW Geography Bowl Team, comprised of undergraduate students Katherine Cann, Allison Carr, Raynell Cooper, Rachel Dimston, Christopher Hart and MA student Gloriana Sojo, won the Mid-Atlantic Division Geography Bowl Competition.

Geography major Christopher Hart published an op-ed entitled “Google plays cartographic appeasement with its maps” in The Edmond Sun and The Davis Enterprise.

Dean Kessmann’s show, A Layered History, was included in The Washington City Paper’s “Worth the Galleries: The Best Contemporary Art of 2014.”

Two books by Gustavo A. Mellander, BA ’59, MA ’60, PhD ’66, Charles Edward Magoon: The Panama Years (Editorial Plaza Mayor, 2000) and The United States in Panamanian Politics: The Intriguing Formative Years (Interstate Printers & Publishers, 1971), were cited as “essential for the study of the early diplomatic relations between Panama and the United States” in the U.S. Library of Congress’s Reference Guide to Panama Materials At The Library.

Peter Nemes received a $360,622 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to develop a new type of mass spectrometer that will enable the measurement of small-molecular single-cell heterogeneity in the early stages of embryo development.

Rachel Riedner’s article “Lives of In-famous Women,” published in the journal JAC, won the 2013 Elizabeth Flynn Award for the best article on feminist theory.