John Arcibal, a high school student in Stuart Licht’s research group, won first prize for the Best Poster Presentation at the American Chemical Society’s Project SEED research symposium.
Steven Balla wrote "Government Consultation and Political Participation on the Chinese Internet" for the book China's Contested Internet.
Burt Barnow participated in a White House and National Economic Council meeting on developing scorecards for community college training programs.
Christopher Edward Brick received a $225,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers project.
Stephanie Cheuvront, MA ’14, was named resident historian for Biography NOW and will manage the company's historical content library.
Keith Crandall and Eduardo Castro-Nallar, PhD ’15, were among the authors of the article “Composition, taxonomy and functional diversity of the oropharynx microbiome in individuals with schizophrenia and controls” for the journal PeerJ.
Ann Doucette received a $75,000 U.S. Department of Transportation grant to research countermeasures for reducing suicides on railway rights-of-way.
Evangeline Downie received a $10,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for collaborative research on equipment for and running of the PSI MUSE experiment.
Helena Hillinga Haas, MA ’98, an art therapist at Seattle Children's Hospital, was profiled by NBC-affiliate KING 5.
Postdoctoral Scientist Ashley Hammond was awarded a $8,952 grant from the Leakey Foundation for reconstructing phenotypic changes of the pelvis in apes and humans.
Chryssa Kouveliotou was selected as a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Political science graduate student Julia MacDonald won the best student paper award at the 2015 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association for “Leadership Beliefs and State Threat Assessments: Saddam Hussein and the Iraq War 2003."
Economics PhD student Joseph McCormack presented his poster "The Persistence of Fiscal Shocks on State Expenditures: Effects of Budget Requirements, Rainy Day Funds, and Withdrawal Requirements" at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.
Jeff Miller, MPP ’06, contributed to the U.S. Government Accountability Office report “Federal Student Loans: Education Could Do More to Help Ensure Borrowers Are Aware of Repayment and Forgiveness Options.”
Daniel Moshenberg’s Women In and Beyond the Global website was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its web archives.
Harris Mylonas reviewed Diplomacy and Displacement: Reconsidering the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations, 1922–1934 in the Journal of Cold War Studies for the Journal of Cold War Studies. He also co-authored “Threats to Territorial Integrity, National Mass Schooling, and Linguistic Commonality” in the Comparative Political Studies Journal.
GW's chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta honor society received the national organization’s Honorable Mention Best Chapter Award for the second year in a row.
Daniele Podini was featured as one of the "10 Professors Changing Forensic Biology" on the Forensics Colleges blog.
Jordan Potash co-authored the study “Medical student mandala making for holistic well-being” in the journal Medical Humanities.
Jozef H. Przytycki was featured in the Polish Mathematical Society's journal Wiadomosci Matematyczne on being named professor of mathematical sciences by the president of Poland.
SMPA was named the number 15 school for journalism in the country by USA Today and College Factual.
Elisha Sigmon, PhD ’13, published “Interspecific Variation in Aggressive Fighting Behavior of Shelter-Building Caterpillars” in the Journal of Insect Behavior and was featured on the Science website.
Dmitry Streletskiy was awarded a $178,297 grant from the National Science Foundation to study Arctic climate change and its impact on the environment, infrastructures and resource availability.
Journalism and mass communication student James Surdam’s photo of Pope Francis' visit to the United States appeared on NBC Nightly News.
Alexander van der Horst won a $43,870 NASA Shared Services Center grant for his Nustar observations of the Magnetar SGR 1806-20.
Senior Maya Weinstein, a double major in criminal justice and human services and social justice, won the 2015 Undergraduate Paper Award in the Division of Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology for "The Potential for Restorative Justice in Cases of Sexual Assault on College Campuses."
Anthony Yezer and Will Larson, PhD ’11, published their paper “The energy implications of city size and density” in the Journal of Urban Economics.
George Younes was awarded a $49,940 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center grant for Fermi gamma-ray burst monitoring of Magnetars’ persistent hard x-ray emission.