November 2020 Kudos

November 12, 2020

Denver Brunsman (History) was featured on the panel "Electing a U.S. President -- Then and Now," as part of the 2020 George Washington Leadership Lecture.

Nakeya Brown, MFA ’17, (Fine Arts) was featured in the Vogue article “How Photographer Nakeya Brown Celebrates Black Hair Care Through Her Work.” 

Larry Cook, MFA ’13, (Fine Arts) was named a Light Work Artist-in-Residence for 2021.

Amy Heller, MFA ’91, (Photography) co-authored the book Lost and Found: Time, Tide & Treasures (Schiffer Publishing, 2020).

Senior Garret Hoff (Media & Public Affairs) co-authored the article “Civil Society Can Usher in a New Era of Education” for Daily Signal

Oleg Kargaltsev (Physics) received a $72,788 grant from the NASA-Stennis Space Center to research the high gamma-ray energies of the Vela pulsar and x-rays from its pulsar wind nebula.

Steven Livingston (Media & Public Affairs) co-published the Social Science Research Council article “The Institutional Crisis at the Root of Our Political Disinformation

Christopher C. Miller, BA ’87, was named acting U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Senior Yannik Omictin (Geography) was quoted by The Christian Science Monitor in the article “When homework is least of your worries: How colleges help hungry students

Weiqun Peng (Physics) received a $337,624 grant from the Hackensack Center for Discovery and Innovation to study differentiation among human T-cells. 

Ethan Porter (Media & Public Affairs) contributed to The Debunking Handbook 2020, a publication by the Center for Climate Change Communication.

First-Year Student Omer Reshid was quoted by Buzzfeed News in the article “Protest Is Part Of The Black American Tradition. Young Activists Are Reshaping The Movement In Their Image.’’

Senior Joey Rodriguez, (Political Science)  was quoted by Voice of America in the article “Youth Voting Trends Vary by Race

Nina Seavey (Media & Public Affairs) served as a panelist for the Women in Film and Video discussion “The State of Documentary.” 

Junior Lucas Vining (Biology) won a $20,000 award in an innovation contest sponsored by the U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber to fund his start-up company Ichosia Biotechnology.

Silvio Waisbord (Media & Public Affairs) published the book El imperio de la utopía: Mitos y realidades de la sociedad estadounidense (Grupo Planeta, 2020)

Senior Fiona Walsh (Mathematics) was quoted by The New York Times in the article, “Her absentee ballot missing, a Kentucky college student plans to drive 1,052 miles to vote.’’