New Books
Associate Professor of English Antonio Lopez authored Unbecoming Blackness, which will be released on November 26.
Melissa Panek, professorial lecturer of French, wrote her first book The Postmodern Mythology of Michel Tournier.
Edward Robinson, outreach director for the Forensic Science Program and associate professor of forensic sciences, penned the textbook An Introduction to Crime Scene Photography.
Awards and Recognition
Megan Black, doctoral candidate in American Studies, was awarded the 2012 Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize for her paper "Guardians of 'Global' Resources: Visualizing Energy and Empire in U.S. Government-Sponsored Film, 1949-1956" at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association. Kathleen Brian, doctoral candidate in American Studies, received an honorable mention for the same prize for her paper "'The Suicide Contests': Corporate Victimhood in the Life Insurance Industry, 1862-1883."
Chair of the Music Department Douglas Boyce received a prestigious Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University 2012 Commission for a project with Trio Cavatino.
Mariana D. B. Figueira, postdoctoral fellow and instruction in the Professional Psychology Program, was recognized by theAmerican Pscyhoanalytic Association as a 2013 Teacher Academy Scholar.
Assistant Professor of Classics Elise Friedland is the 2013 recipient of the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Archaeological Institute of America.
The GW Geography Team won the Geography Bowl Competition at the Mid-Atlantic Division of the Association of American Geographers' meeting. Students Raynell Cooper and Chris Hart placed first and second and will compete as part of the Mid-Atlantic Division team at the national competition in April.
Kevin Hatala, a student in the Hominid Paleobiology PhD Program, has been awarded a $9,142 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and a $14,925 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for his project "Fossil Footprints and the Dynamics of Footprint Formation: Implications for the Evolution of Human Gait."
Alexander Huang, associate professor of English and director of the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare program, is a co-recipient of a five-year, $208,336 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to work with scholars on a digital edition of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Chair of the Department of Fine Arts and Art History Dean Kessmann and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance Dana Tai Soon Burgess each received a $5,000 Artist Fellowship grant from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Kristin Kirkpatrick, BA ’98, was recently named one of 35 health experts to follow on Twitter by the Huffington Post.
Ryan Krog, a graduate student in political science, received a Prestage-Cook Travel Award from the Southern Political Science Association to attend the January 2013 SPSA Conference in Orlando.
Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences Diana Lipscomb placed in the top 20 of Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.
Assistant Professor of American Studies Elaine Peña received the Honorable Mention from the 2012 Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award committee for her book Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Assistant Professor of Forensic Sciences Daniele Podini was awarded a $268,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice to support the development of a new method to help detect spermatozoa from sexual assault evidence.
Shannon Powers, a graduate student in political science, was selected to serve as a non-governmental organization delegate to the 11th Session of the Assembly of States-Parties of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Victor Weedn, chair of the Department of Forensic Sciences and renowned for his work as a forensic scientist, received the President’s Award for "Special and Ongoing Service" at the National Association of Medical Examiners.
Widmeyer Communications, led by School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) National Council member Scott Widmeyer, received the Diversity Distinction in PR Award 2012 from the Council of PR Firms and PR Week. Widmeyer Communications supports SMPA’s Prime Media Movers program.
At the national meeting of the American Musicological Society, Professor of Music Laura Youens received the Claude V. Palisca Award for best edition or translation for Thomasii Crequillonis Opera omnia, Vol. 18: Cantiones Quatuor Vocum. Youens worked on the music of Renaissance composer Thomas Crecquillon for 23 years and was the editor of seven volumes of a 20-volume series.
Selected Published Works
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, co-authored the catalogue and translated the poetic texts of the Chinese calligraphy collection that is now on display at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. The calligraphy is from the collection of Jerry Wang, co-founder of yahoo.com.
Gregory D. Squires, professor of sociology and public policy and public administration, co-authored an op-ed for The Nation entitled “America’s Warfare Welfare State”.
"Direct Observation of Subcellular Metabolite Gradients in Single Cells by LAESI Mass Spectrometry" was featured in the October Angewandte Chemie, International Edition. The article was authored by Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology Akos Vertes, graduate student and recent winner of the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize Jessica Stolee, undergraduate student Getachew Mengistu, and post-doctoral scientist Bindesh Shrestha.