September 2019 Kudos

September 12, 2019

PhD candidate Vyta Baselice (American Studies) authored the article “The Way Concrete Goes” for The Metropole.

David Braun (Anthropology) was awarded a $305,846 grant from the National Science Foundation to research the past and present human-environment dynamics in the Turkana Basin, Kenya.

Five CCAS PhD candidates were recipients of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for 2019-20: Rebecca Clement (Biology), Ahmed Kodouda (Political Science), Elizabeth Meehan (Political Science), Kristen Tuosto (Human Paleobiology) and Dario Verta (Mathematics).

Keryn Gedan (Biology) received a $22,163 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior to monitor the effects of the Canada Goose’s herbivory diet on the Tidal Freshwater Wetlands in Anacostia Park. Md.

PhD candidate  Lillian Frost (Political Science) was awarded a Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship and a $20,000 stipend for her dissertation “Beyond Citizenship: Protracted Refugees and the State” from the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Ahmed Kodouda, PhD candidate, (Political Science) spoke to BBC World Service about Sudan’s new government.

Sascha T. Scott, MA ’01, (Art History) authored the article “Georgia O’Keeffe’s ‘Black Place’” for The Art Bulletin.

Frank Sesno (Media & Public Affairs) was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support the Project for Media and National Security.

Sarah Shomstein (Psychology) was awarded a $654,941 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the guidance of attention by task-irrelevant information.

Francesco Sinatora (Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) published the book Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media (Routledge, 2019).

Cheryl Thompson (Media and Public Affairs) received the National Associate of Black Journalists award for investigative coverage in a magazine for her Washington Post article on the unsolved murders of six black girls in Washington, D.C., in the early ’70s.