Noteworthy
"Noteworthy" is a monthly compilation of important awards, achievements and grants received by Columbian College faculty, students and alumni. Articles published in academic journals are also included among these recognitions.
Recent Recognition
Asha Abdul-Mujeeb, MA ’25, (Museum Studies) was profiled in the article “How Asha Abdul- Mujeeb, a Black digital archivist, is preserving HBCU history” by the Reckon news organization.
Andrei Afanasev (Physics) was awarded a $53,898 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the 3D structure of hadrons.
Tiffany Bisbey (Organizational Sciences) was awarded $914,208 from the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences project titled “TeamPACE.”
Lisa Bowleg (Psychology) received a $243,550 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research structural oppression and mental health.
Stephen Boyes (Chemistry) was awarded a $212,029 NSF grant for an intergovernmental personnel act (IPA) assignment.
Mackenzie Fama (Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences) was awarded a $605,625 NIH grant for research on inner speech and task-switching ability in aphasia.
Keryn Gedan (Biology) was award a $11,597 grant from the National Park Services to monitor the effects of resident Canada goose herbivory and population control activities on the tidal freshwater wetlands in Anacostia Park.
Eric Grynaviski (Political Science) co-authored the book The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America’s First Pacific Empire (Cambridge, 2024).
Aleksandar Jeremic (Biology) received a $3,175,189 NIH award for his research on targeting proteasome as a novel regulator.
Oleg Kargaltsev (Physics) was awarded a $79,927 grant from the NASA Goddard Space Flight to classify high-energy gamma-ray sources with the Chandra Source Catalog.
Chryssa Kouveliotou (Physics) received the prestigious Distinguished Scientist Award from the Southeastern Universities Research Association.
Eve Levenson, MPA ’23, (Public Administration) was profiled in The Washington Post for her work as the national youth engagement director for the Biden Campaign.
Rachel Metz (Political Science) was awarded $60,001 from the Smith Richardson Foundation for a project titled “SRF: The Cult of the Persuasive.”
Courtney Middleton, MA ’24, (Art History) participated in the 54th annual Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art organized by the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
Kathryn Newcomer (TSPPPA) co-edited the book Research Handbook on Program Evaluation (Edward Elger Publishing, 2024) and authored four chapters.
PhD candidate Emma Northcott (TSPPPA) won the 2024 Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management-Public and Nonprofit Division.
Bibiana Obler (Art History) wrote the essay “Not Your Grandmother’s Labor” for the book Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction.
Ben Page, MPP ’05, (TSPPPA) was appointed deputy assistant secretary for economic development and COO at the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
Sanjay K. Pandey (TSPPPA) was ranked ninth out of more than 32,000 public administration scholars by ScholarGPS.
Weiqun Peng (Physics) received a $686,010 NIH award for experimentations with 3D chromatin architecture.
Yisheng Peng (Organizational Sciences) was awarded a $364,518 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a project on mindset intervention.
Graduate student Gianna Ramirez (Speech Language Pathology) received the American Speech Language Hearing Association’s Students Preparing for Academic-Research Careers (SPARC) Award.
Sezin Sakmar, BA ’24, (Anthropology) was awarded a 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Student Programs Award.
Chet Sherwood (Anthropology) received a $1,310,373 NIH grant for a chimpanzee neuro-genomic resource project and a $12,030 grant from the Leakey Foundation to study enhanced social-visceral integration in the evolution of great apes.
Camila Tapias, MPA ’20, (Public Administration) was elected to the GW Board of Trustees as a recent alumni trustee.
Takae Tsujioka (EALL) received a $28,580 award from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission to support J.LIVE Talk 2025.
Elizabeth Vaquera (Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute) received a $24,792 NSF grant to support a collaborative research conference titled “Immigrant Well-Being: A Nexus for Research & Policy.”
Sarah Wagner (Anthropology) received two NSF awards totaling $47,902 for projects on COVID-19 disinformation impacts.
Brian Weeden, PhD ’17, (Public Policy Administration) was appointed policy and regulatory team lead at the Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy.
Lang Yang (TSPPPA) received a $22,235 award from EdFund to study school district general fund balances.