Andrei Afanasev, in partnership with colleagues in the Virginia Tech Nuclear Engineering Program, received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop curricula for a Nuclear Education Hub to train Ukrainian students in Nuclear Science and Engineering at the graduate level, as well as facilitate U.S.–Ukraine faculty exchanges.
William Briscoe was awarded a $16,177 grant from the National Science Foundation for his work on continuous measurements of children's behavior and the development of social dynamics.
Patricia Hernandez received a $14,904 grant from the National Science Foundation to organize a symposium on multifunctional structures and multistructural functions at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Juliet King presented on “Art and the Brain” at the National Academy of Science’s Art Science Evening Rendezvous.
Jakub Kostal was awarded a $367,375 grant from the National Science Foundation to upgrade biomass using ionic liquids.
Steven Livingston moderated a discussion on disinformation and contentious narratives at the launch event for a special issue of the Columbia University Journal of International Affairs.
Michael Massiah was awarded a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the function of a key class of enzymes called RING E3 in cellular protein recycling.
Larry Medsker participated in a round table on the future of artificial intelligence in the workforce at the POLITICO AI Summit for congressional staffers and legislators.
Jack Nassetta, BA ’20, is the lead author of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies report “All the World is Staged.”
Jason Osder and William Youmans were named Double Exposure fellows, a program that fosters dialogue between filmmakers and journalists. Osder also instructed the Lynda.com course Premiere Pro Guru: Outputs and Media Encoder.
Svetlana Roudenko received a $28,725 grant from the National Science Foundation for calculations involving nonlinear partial differential equations.
Nikolay Shiklomanov was awarded a $1,261,804 grant from the National Science Foundation for Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring, a program for long-term observations of permafrost and active layer monitoring sites.
Cheryl W. Thompson spoke on the New England First Amendment Institute panel “Common Pitfalls in Accessing Documents Through FOI Requests and How to Respond.” She also moderated a panel at the Swedish Embassy on “Journalism in the Trump Era.”
Silvio Waisbord moderated the panel "Crisis in Nicaragua: Voices from the Movement" organized by the Global Women's Institute.