Andrew Allard, a senior majoring in Chinese and French language and literature, was a Gold Award Winner at the 2018 Jiangsu Cup Chinese Speech Contest.
Emma Briant spoke at InfoWarCon on "Government Contracting and the Influence Industry: Responses to the Problem of Digital Propaganda" and provided evidence for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group.
Candice Cain, BA ’98, created New Dogs, Old Tricks, a college-based comedy show on Amazon Prime.
Cathy Cranberg, BA ’95, created the card game “How Do You See The World?” for Authentic Agility Games.
Ioannis Eleftherianos co-authored "Dicer-2 Regulates Resistance and Maintains Homeostasis against Zika Virus Infection in Drosophila" in The Journal of Immunology.
Matthew Hindman co-authored the report “Disinformation, ‘Fake News’ and Influence Campaigns on Twitter” for the Knight Foundation.
Steven Livingston moderated a discussion at the launch event for a special issue of the Columbia University Journal of International Affairs on disinformation.
Peter Loge delivered a lecture titled "A Call to Return to the Study and Teaching of Political Communication Ethics" at the University of Connecticut.
Arnaud Martin was awarded a $238,887 grant from the National Science Foundation for his collaborative research on the developmental architecture of structure and color on butterfly wings.
Maria del Carmen Montoya was featured in the Houston Chronicle article "This is what it sounds like when pianos die."
Jason Osder and William Youmans were named Double Exposure Fellows, a program that fosters dialogue between filmmakers and journalists.
Weiqun Peng published “Predicting CTCF-mediated chromatin interactions by integrating genomic and epigenomic features” in Nature Communications.
Ethan Porter lectured at the U.S. State Department on “Social Media in The Elections: The Changing Face Of U.S. Politics.”
Janet Steele was a panelist at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival.
Cheryl W. Thompson moderated discussions at the 2018 Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association. She presented at the Journalism and Women Symposium and at the African Investigative Journalism Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Nikki Usher was named an OsloMet Digital Journalism Fellow.
Silvio Waisbord published "Populism as media and communication phenomenon" in the Routledge Handbook of Global Populism. He gave the keynote address "What is Digital Journalism? ideas for Analysis and Practice" at the Seminario Internacional de Periodismo de Calidad at the Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico).
Gregory Wallace published the study “Autism spectrum disorder and food neophobia: clinical and subclinical links” in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.