Tyler Alexander, BA ’25, (SMPA) was awarded the Julian Clement Chase Creative Writing prize for his composition “Big Chairs.”
Reuben Aniekwu, MA ’19, (Environmental Resource Policy) was named lead climate services specialist at the U.S. Global Change Research Program in Washington, D.C.
Steven J. Balla (TSPPPA) and Susan Dudley (TSPPA) spoke to the Federalist Society at the event “Will the Congressional Review Act Be Revived in 2025?”
Isaac Boateng, MPA ’19, (TSPPPA) was named municipal and community affairs liaison and special assistant to the chief of staff for Prince George County State’s Attorney Office.
Shelley B. Brundage (Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences) and Julia Kerrigan, BA ’23, (Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences) published the article “Lived experiences of children who stutter in their own voices” in The Journal of Communication Disorders.
David DeGrazia (Philosophy) received a $88,607 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study moral philosophy in conversation with bioethics.
U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, MA ’96, (Legislative Affairs) was presented with the GSPM Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award.
Kyle Farmbry, PhD ’99, Blessing Boma Douglas, MPA ’20, and Kelly Waldron, MPA ’07, were honored with TSPPPA’s Distinguished Alumni Award, the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award and the Service to the School Alumni Award respectively.
Graduate student Motunrayo Fatoke (TSPPPA) spoke at the “Digital Safety Reimagined” session at the United Nations 79th General Assembly.
Sarah Fitch, MPP ’20, (TSPPPA) received the Affiliate Customer Service Innovator Award from Volunteers of America.
Ashley Flint, MPP ’12, (TSPPPA) was named a principal in the policy practice at Avalere in Washington, D.C.
Alexa Alice Joubin (English, WGSS, Theatre, EALL, International Affairs) authored the chapter “Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education” in the book General Aspects of Applying Generative AI in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges (Springer, 2024).
Chryssa Kouveliotou (Physics) was awarded the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for her career contributions to the field of astrophysics.
Vera Kuklina (Geography and Environment) received a $199,448 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on Arctic future infrastructure transformations, resilience and adaptation.
Markella Lanara, BA ’24, (Psychology) was selected as a 2024-2025 Presidential Fellow.
Senior Lydie Lake (Journalism and Mass Communication) was a featured speaker at the SMPA event “A Conversation With Michael Tomasky.”
Alexia Massoud, BA ’26, (SMPA) published the article “‘I am the store’: Terry Hall as a community hero” on the Planet Forward website.
LaKeisha McClary (Chemistry) co-edited Inclusive STEM: Transforming Disciplinary Writing Instruction for a Socially Just Future (University Press of Colorado, 2024). Jameta Barlow (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Writing), Kylie Quave (Anthropology, Writing), Rachel Riedner (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Writing) and Riya Sharma, BS ’24, (Data Science, Political Science) contributed to the publication.
Brendan Morley (Japanese Language and Literature) received a $27,829 grant from the Japan-US Friendship Commission to support the J.LIVE Talk 2024.
Roberto Nava, MPA ’20, (TSPPPA) was named senior associate at Solidarity Strategies and political director for Nuestro PAC in Washington, D.C.
Political Science undergraduates Sandra Ochoa and Kieran Laffey wrote about their experiences at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, which they attended thanks to the support of GW alumni.
PhD candidate Stacy Post (Applied Social Psychology) received a $1,500 grant from Psi Chi and a $1,000 grant from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues to compare the impact of GLP-1 agonist medications and lifestyle interventions on weight stigma among women with obesity.
Graduate student Gianna Ramirez (Speech Language Pathology) received the American Speech Language Hearing Association’s Students Preparing for Academic-Research Careers Award.
Maggie Rhoads, BA ’27, (SMPA) authored the article “US Presidential Debate: Climate change answers lack substance” on the Planet Forward website.
Gabriela Rosenblau (Cognitive Neuroscience) was awarded $11,500 from the Simons Foundation to examine the role of knowledge structures in social learning from a computational neural and psychiatric perspective.
Nina Seavey (SMPA) authored the chapter “True Conspiracies: The Legacy of J. Edgar Hoover, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Earl Ray” in American Conspiracism: An Interdisciplinary Exploration.
Chet Sherwood (Anthropology) was awarded a $230,860 grant from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to study cellular resolution in developing human and non-human primate brain for cell atlases.
Eiko Strader (Public Policy, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Sociology) published the article “Immigration, domestic labor, and earnings inequality among native-born women in the US” in The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Junior Jordan Tovin (Photojournalism) wrote and contributed photographs to the article “More than frybread: The fight to reclaim identity in Minneapolis’ Native American community” for CBS News.
Allyson Vieira (Foundations) received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to teach and conduct research in Greece during the 2024-25 academic year.
Tristan Volpe, PhD ’15, (Political Science) received the Robert O. Keohane Award for best research article published in the journal International Organization by untenured scholars.
Huixia (Judy) Wang (Statistics) was awarded a $549,341 NSF grant for collaborative research on advancing mathematical and statistical foundations to enhance human digital twin of neurophysiological modeling and uncertainty quantification.
Gail Weiss (Philosophy, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) presented her research on “Unraveling the Ties that Bind: The Social Fragility of Old Age” at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 2024 Conference.
Lang (Kate) Yang (TSPPPA) received a $22,235 grant from Ed Fund to study the school district general fund balance.