October 2017 Kudos

October 11, 2017

Tyler Anbinder’s research was featured on the National Endowment for the Humanities’ website.

Burt Barnow will spend six weeks teaching in Myanmar as a Fulbright Scholar.

Edward Berkowitz's article, "Getting to the Affordable Care Act," was published in the Journal of Policy History.

Public policy graduate student Kathryn Bradley received an Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) 2017 Equity and Inclusion Fellowship to attend the APPAM Fall Research Conference.

Mimi d'Autremont, MA ’17, and Bo Tan, MA ’17, presented short films at the DC Shorts Film Festival & Screenplay Competition.

Susan E. Dudley received a $146,563 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to examine the impact of regulation on productivity and innovation.

Sylvain Guiriec was awarded the 2017 Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal from NASA for her work on Gamma Ray bursts and their use as cosmological probes.

Oleg Y. Kargaltsev was awarded a $57,923 grant from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for the multiwavelength identification of Fermi LAT sources.

Peter Loge was part of a seven-member U.S. delegation that met with Basque government and business leaders about strengthening ties between the United States and the Basques.

Arnaud Martin co-authored the study “Macroevolutionary shifts of WntA function potentiate butterfly wing-pattern diversity” for PNAS 2017.

Corcoran students Noah McWilliams, Patrick Quinn and Judas Recendez exhibited works at the Connersmith's ACADEMY 2017.

Tudor Mihailescu gave a TEDxDonauinsel presentation in Vienna, Austria.

History PhD candidate Ryan Musto authored the article "'A Desire So Close to the Hearts of all Latin Americans': Utopian Ideals and Imperfections Behind Latin America's Nuclear Weapon Free Zone" for the Bulletin of Latin American Research.

Harris Mylonas and Kendrick Kuo, BA ’11, co-authored the entry for “Nationalism and Foreign Policy” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics.

Anthropology PhD student Enquye Negash received a $17,500 Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Michele Pacifico, MA ’08, was inducted as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.

Sanjay Pandey shared the Charles Levine Best Conference Paper Award at the Academy of Management conference for co-authoring the paper “Follower Response to Deviant Leader Behavior: Does Leader’s Gender Matter?”

Nina Seavey’s documentary My Fugitive was screened at Independent Film Week in New York City.

Janet Steele presented “The Journalisms of Islam: Contending views in Muslim Southeast Asia” at the 2017 International Journal of Press/Politics conference at the University of Oxford.

Josef Stiegler, PhD candidate in biology, was quoted in The New York Times article “How Dinosaurs Swapped Terrifying Teeth for Bird Beaks.”

Dawn Stoppiello, MFA '14, joined the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance as an assistant professor of practice in dance and new media.

Phillip Troutman delivered a keynote address on "The Domestic Slave Trade and its Effect on African American Family History" at the Virginia African American Genealogy Conference at the Library of Virginia in Richmond.

Nikki Usher participated in a U.S. State Department Speaker Program tour of Slovenia. She also presented “Washington Reporters as ‘Beltway Insiders’: Space, Place, and Elitism” at the 2017 International Journal of Press/Politics conference at the University of Oxford.

Akos Vertes received a $722,876 subaward from the National Science Foundation for research on system approaches to studying soybean root biology at high resolution.

Dean Ben Vinson authored the book Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Silvio Waisbord gave the keynote address "Truth is What Happens to News: On Journalism and Post-Truth" at The Future of Journalism Conference at Cardiff University in Wales.

Lang (Kate) Yang won the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration’s Outstanding Dissertation Award.

William Youmans published “The Islamic State’s Passport Paradox” in the University of California Santa Barbara journal Global Dynamics.