GW tied for 59th out of 436 institutions in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” list, up four spots from 2025.
Robert Blaemire, BA ’71, MA ’75, (Political Science) authored the book Unforced Errors: 15 Bad Decisions That Changed American History (Austin Macauley).
Leah Brooks (Public Policy and Public Administration) was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Stephanie Cellini (TSPPPA) received a $15,001 grant from The Spencer Foundation to study centering equity in higher education research.
Jeffrey Ding (Political Science) won the Lepgold Prize for his book, Technology and the Rise of Great Powers (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Susan Dudley (Public Policy and Public Administration) spoke at the Central Park AI Forum and participated in a panel discussion at George Mason University’s Gray Center on “The State of the Administrative State.”
Mackenzie Fama (Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences) received a two-year, $75,000 grant from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation for research on inner speech and task-switching ability in aphasia.
Keryn Gedan (Biological Sciences) received a $44,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study climate drivers and ecosystem state change in a coastal barrier landscape.
Michael Hankison (Political Science) received a $62,167 grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to build a National Housing Permits Database.
Derek Holliday (Political Science) co-authored the article “Why Depolarization is Hard: Evaluating Attempts to Decrease Partisan Animosity in America” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Michael D. Krulfeld, MA ’98, established the Ruth Krulfeld Research Award for Anthropology in honor of his late mother, a former GW anthropology professor. The fund will support undergraduate research in anthropology.
Gabriela Rosenblau (Psychology) was awarded a $11,500 grant from the Simons Foundation to participate in the 2025-2026 Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience.
Junior Malyna Gomez Trujillo (Political Science) received a 2025–2027 Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship for Public Service.