Elizabeth Acevedo, BA ’10, was featured and performed her spoken word poetry on PBS NewsHour.
Robert Baker is in rehearsals with Washington National Opera for a new production of Appomattox by composer Philip Glass.
Katie Biber, BA ’00, Shannon McGahn, BA ’02, and Ali Pardo, BA ’11, were named to Marie Claire's list of the 50 Most Influential Women in America.
Leah Chang’s book Portraits of the Queen Mother: Polemics, Panegyrics, Letters (ACMRS Publications, 2014) won the Josephine Roberts Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.
“Unaccompanied,” an exhibit by Oliver Contreras, MA ’15, was featured in The Washington Post.
MFA student Alicia Diaz was interviewed about her dance performance “Deep Listening” by Angela Schöpke, BA ’14, on the CultureBot website.
Susan Dudley was awarded a $132,797 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a comparative evaluation of U.S. and E.U. regulatory effects on agriculture.
Emily Dufton, PhD ’14, was interviewed by the Organization of American Historians' Process blog on her upcoming book A Higher Calling: How Grassroots Activists Launched America’s Marijuana Revolution and Shaped the Modern War on Drugs.
Mohammad Faghfoory co-authored Life After Death, Resurrection, Judgment and the Final Destiny of the Soul: Volume 1 (Kazi Publications, 2015).
The GW Geography Bowl Team won the Mid-Atlantic Division Meeting Geography Bowl Competition. Team Captain Kean McDermott received the MVP award. Team members also include Hannah Hassani, Forrest Melvin, Matthew Mittler, Patrick Nahhas and Victoria Winch. Marie Price is the team’s faculty representative.
Margaret Gonglewski co-wrote "Sustainability Pedagogies for the Business Language Classroom" for the journal Global Business Languages.
Andy Grundberg spoke at a symposium on Irving Penn at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery.
Chithra Jeyaram was the inaugural recipient of the Global Health Crossover Lab Award from The Lancet, the Royal Society for Medicine and Sheffield Doc/Fest for her multi-platform work-in-progress 1001 Breast Cancer Nights.
Kathryn Kleppinger published “There’s Something about Paris" in the journal American Literary History.
Corcoran School student Fred Lameck was the 2015 AIGA DC Design Continuum Fund Recipient.
Richard Longstreth was presented an Award for Architectural Excellence in Architectural Scholarship and Preservation Advocacy by the Society of Architectural Historians.
Stephen C. Lubkemann appeared on 60 Minutes as part of a feature on the African Slave Wrecks Project.
Alumnus Scott Pattison was announced as the new executive director and chief executive officer of the National Governors Association.
Several faculty members and graduate students were featured among the Council on Foreign Relations’ “Top 10 Recent Academic Journal Articles,” including Political Science PhD students Julia MacDonald and Jacquelyn Schneider's "Presidential Risk Orientation and Force Employment Decisions: The Case of Unmanned Weaponry"; Elizabeth Saunders' "War and the Inner Circle: Democratic Elites and the Politics of Using Force"; and Rachel Stein's "War and Revenge: Explaining Conflict Initiation by Democracies."
Mary Beth Stein presented “Toward an Ethnographic Inquiry into Socialist Consciousness and Practice,” at the German Studies Association in Washington, D.C.
Nikki Usher spoke about her forthcoming book Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data and Code at Rutgers University and addressed the Democracy Fund workshop "Local Media and Informed Participation" with SMPA students Emma Grundhauser and Sean Raymond.
Abdourahman Waberi delivered a lecture entitled “Answering to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda: The Duty of Memory Project" as guest of honor of the French/Francophone and Africana Studies Departments at Vassar College.
Sergio Waisman published a translation of Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia's Blanco nocturno (Target in the Night) (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2015).
Jeffrey Watson performed with the musical quintet QuinTango on a tour of Italy’s Amalfi Coast.
Lynn Westwater received an National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant for 2016-2017 for her project "The Devotional Works of Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652): Piety and Polemics in Counter-Reformation Venice."