Susan Aaronson received a $6,000 grant from the International Labour Organization for a project titled “Supply Chain Transparency and Good Governance Spillovers of Labor Rights Provisions in Trade Agreements.”
Lisa Benton-Short wrote the book The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space (University of Toronto Press, 2016).
William J. Briscoe won a $74,524 National Science Foundation award for collaborative research on the Pipeline Network.
Samantha Brugmann, PhD ’05, received the Presidential Early Career in Science and Engineering Award.
Denver Brunsman presented "History at the House, The Room Where It Happened. Capital vs. Seat of Government: An American Controversy,” a Hamilton: An American Musical-themed lecture at Dumbarton House, NSCDA Museum & Headquarters.
Kari Comer was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans for academic leadership and accomplishment by the Junior Chamber International.
Joe Connell performed with the Cinemusica Viva ensemble at the National Gallery of Art.
Evangeline J. Downie was featured in the New Scientist article “How big is a proton? No one knows exactly, and that’s a problem.”
Gerald Feldman received a $580,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for Compton-scattering studies of the High Intensity Gamma Source.
Sylvain Guiriec was awarded $55,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop a unified model for GRB broadband prompt emission.
Helmut Haberzettl was awarded a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for the analysis of hadronic and electromagnetic interactions.
History PhD student Bill Horne was named a visiting scholar at the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, University of New Orleans, for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Steven Livingston coauthored the book When the Press Fails: Political Power for Iraq to Katrina (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Jodi Kanter published the book, Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016).
Oleg Kargaltsev received a $56,797 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a study titled, “Sleuthing for Compact Objects Accreting From the Interstellar Medium.”
Stuart Licht is a finalist in the Institution of Chemical Engineers’ 2016 IChemE Global Awards for the Research Project of the Year and the Sustainable Technology Award.
Ioan Marginean was awarded $12,328 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for the identification of synthetic emerging drugs by low-resolution NMR.
Shannon McFarlin was awarded a $394,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to unlock the hard tissue record of baboon adaptability in response to environmental change in the Amboseli basin, Kenya.
Kathryn Newcomer was the 2016 recipient of the NASPAA Duncombe Excellence in Doctoral Education Award.
Senior journalism major Scott Nover launched MediaFile, a student-run website devoted to providing media news and media criticism.
Mark Reeves received a $216,389 grant from the National Science Foundation for community sourcing introductory physics for the life sciences.
Emily K. M. Scott won a Traditional Fulbright Scholar Award to work with Michael Barnett.
David J. Silverman received $88,831 from the National Park Services for an ethnographic overview and assessment of the Roger Williams National Memorial.
Sarah Wagner received a $24,691 grant from the National Science Foundation for her study “Fabricating Threat, Materializing Absence: Documents Driving Violence and Reconfiguring Relations in Colombian Society.”
Silvio Waisbord wrote the book, Media Movements: Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America (University of Chicago Press, 2016).