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
Tatiyana Apanasovich (Statistics) received $500,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation for a proposal on integrating data privacy and cybersecurity into statistics graduate education.
Brandon Bartels and Eric Kramon (Political Science) won the “Best Journal Article Award” for 2023 from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.
Jennifer Brinkerhoff (Public Policy & Public Administration) won the 2024 Inclusion Award from the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs as part of the Generations Dialogue Project.
Risa Broudy (Psychological & Brain Sciences) was awarded a $120,000 contract from the Southern Smoke Foundation.
PhD candidate Cam Cannon (American Studies) was named a 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow for their project “Standard: Trans Activism and the History of Gender-Affirming Medicine in the United States.”
Eric Cline (Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology) published the books After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations and 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed, with illustrator Glynnis Fawkes (Princeton University Press).
Elisabeth Farmer, MPP ’12, (Public Policy) was named a chief of party with USAID Food Security Service Center II.
Scott Grether, MA ’12, (Sociology) was named a tenured associate professor of sociology and at Longwood University.
Nathan Havey, MPP ’07, (TSPPPA) wrote and directed the documentary Beyond Zero, available in-flight on several airlines.
Corey Howell, MA ’24, (Interaction Design) and Diego del Sola, BFA ’23, (Interaction Design) won $15,000 in prizes at GW’s New Venture Competition for their entry “Thonk Lab,” a company that creates sustainable keycaps and keyboards.
Oleg Kargaltsev (Physics) received a $247,508 grant from NASA-Goddard for a project on high-energy machine learning training datasets.
Zeita Merchant, MPA ’10, (TSPPPA) was promoted to the rank of rear admiral with the U.S. Coast Guard.
Sophomore Anjana Murugan (Biology) was selected as a 2024 Key into Public Service Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society and will receive a $5,000 undergraduate scholarship.
Blaine Nibley, MPA ’22, (TSPPPA) was appointed a strategic workforce policy advisor with the U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Sanjay K Pandey (Public Policy and Public Administration) was featured on Research.com’s list of the world’s “Best Business and Management Scientists.”
Jozef H. Przytycki (Mathematics) co-authored the book Lectures in Knot Theory: An Exploration of Contemporary Topics (Springer, 2024) with former students Rhea Palak Bakshi, MA ’18, PhD ’21, (Mathematics); Dionne Ibarra, PhD ’22, (Mathematics); Gabriel Montoya-Vega, PhD ’22, (Mathematics); and mathematics graduate student Deborah Weeks.
Caleb Schmotter (Political Science) received a $14,165 award from the American Political Science Association for a project titled “Inducing the Ancient: How States Shape Ethnic Boundaries.”
Gregory Squires (Sociology) published the article “There is a bias controlling colleges and universities, but it’s not what you think” in Social Policy.
Junior Grace Truslow (Political Science) received the prestigious Truman Scholarship from the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
Patrick Wohl, BA ’16, (Political Science) published the book Down Ballot: How A Local Campaign Became A National Referendum on Abortion (3 Fields Books/University of Illinois Press).
PhD student Teryn Zmuda (Public Policy and Public Administration) was appointed to the Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee within the U.S. Department of Commerce.