Sean Aday (Media and Public Affairs) received the SMPA Staub Faculty Excellence Award.
Shelley Brundage received the Master’s Teaching Award from the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.
Two CCAS faculty members were recognized at GW’s 15th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony. Stephanie Riegg Cellini (Public Policy and Public Administration, Economics) won the 2025 Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence. Ilana Feldman (Anthropology, History, International Affairs) received the Trachtenberg Prize for Service.
Barry R. Chiswick (Economics, International Affairs) was ranked No. 316 in the world and No. 217 in the United States in the 2025 Research.com rankings for economics and finance.
Jamie Cohen-Cole founded and co-edits the journal History of Social Science, which examines the transformation of the social sciences since the early 20th century.
Ashley George, MPP ’21, (Public Policy) was promoted to senior policy advisor at Employ America.
First-year Zach Gindi-Chiafullo (Music) scored a scene for the Hulu documentary Unleashing Hope: The Power of Service Dogs for Children With Autism.
Lien-Yung (Nyima) Kao (Mathematics) received a $89,113 grant from the National Science Foundation to study thermodynamic formalism and ergodic geometry.
Elira Kuka (Economics) was awarded a $199,992 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to study how application assistance effects the receipt of unemployment benefits.
Jung-Sil Lee (Art History) published the book Modern and Contemporary Korean Art in Context (1950 - Now) (Bloomsbury, 2025).
Junior Ethan Lynne (Political Communication) was elected president of the GW Student Government Association.
PhD candidate Julia Mattingly (TSPPPA) was awarded the Equity Award and Inclusive Excellence Award at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health Research Day.
PhD candidate Emma Northcott (TSPPPA) authored the article “Automating street-level discretion: a systematic literature review and research agenda” in the Policy Studies Journal.
Scott Odell (Geography) received a $159,804 award from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support an interdisciplinary research conference on critical minerals and metals.
Jason Osder (School of Media and Public Affairs) was featured on the New York Times’ list of favorite films from the past 25 years for his documentary, Let the Fire Burn.
Weiqun Peng (Physics) received a $89,856 award from the National Institutes of Health to study the regulation of T-cell exhaustion through 3D chromatin architecture.
Organizational sciences undergraduate David Perchuk was part of a team of GW first-year students to earn first place in the U.S. finals of the 2025 L’Oréal Brandstorm Competition.
Lauren Pincus (Chemistry) received a $125,000 award from the American Chemical Society for recovering endangered elements from photovoltaic waste using ion-imprinted biopolymers.
Junior Allison Robberts (Photojournalism) contributed a front page photograph to The New York Times.
Cheryl W. Thompson (Journalism) was elected to the board of directors of the National Press Foundation.
Graduate student Christine Wenzel (Public Administration) won the “Best Storytelling Prize” in the GW New Venture Competition for her project “Heartwise.”