The CCAS Political Science Program was ranked 15th in the world in the 2021 Shanghai Rankings.
The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design was named one of the 5 best art schools in the Southeast by Art & Object.
Corcoran students Arielle Bader, Candace Chambers, Sarah Goolishian, Hunter Lacey, Gabrielle Rhoads and Maansi Srivastava were selected for the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop.
Dana Tai Soon Burgess (Dance) launched slantpodcast.com, a platform for Asian American artists, writers and thinkers to explore questions about race, identity and creating in America.
Stephanie R. Cellini (Public Policy) received a $197,807 grant from the Joyce Foundation for a project on higher education equity and accountability.
Kerry Crawford, PhD ’14, (Political Science) authored the book The Ph.D. Parenthood Trap: Caught Between Work and Family in Academia (Georgetown University Press, 2021).
Lee Ann Fuji, PhD ’06, (Political Science) published Show Time (Cornell University Press, 2021).
Samuel Goldman (Political Science) authored the book After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
Sophomore Daryll Jackson was quoted by WRC-NBC4 in the article “MedStar STEM Project Turns to Students to Tackle COVID Data.”
Loren Kajikawa (Music) participated in the virtual panel “Adventures in Digital Publishing.”
Dean Kessmann (Photography and Studio Arts) debuted his career survey exhibition at VisArts.
Vera Kuklina (Geography) received a $851,749 grant from the National Science Foundation to study change, resilience and sustainability of frozen commons in Alaskan and Northeastern Siberian communities.
Janet I. Lewis (Political Science) won the 2021 Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Prize for How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Lisa Lipinski (Art History) and her students curated and researched the exhibition Concurring Experiences: Together Apart at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery.
Arnaud Martin (Biology) received a $410,662 grant from the National Science Foundation to study diversification in butterfly lineage.
Shannon Mcfarlin (Anthropology) received two grants from the National Science Foundation: $16,748 to study the impacts of early life adversity on primate bone growth; and $15,750 to study the effects on primates of nutritional ecology and feeding competition on growth and development.
Michael Miller (Political Science) published the book Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization (Princeton University Press, 2021).
Stephen Mitroff (Psychology) received a $449,690 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command to use big data for evaluating and predicting human variability.
Evan Nierman, BA ’00, (Communications) authored the book Crisis Averted: PR Strategies to Protect Your Reputation and the Bottom Line (Advantage Media Group, 2021).
Anna Rawls, MA ’21, (New Media Photojournalism) hosted the first ever virtual screening of her multimedia graduate capstone, "Oh, Mother of Mine."
Kimberly Sellers, PhD ’01, (Statistics) was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
David Shambaugh (Political Science) authored the book China’s Leaders: From Mao to Now (Wiley, 2021).
Rebekah Tromble (SMPA) received a $100,000 grant from Netgain Partnership to study platform data for independent research.
Yanxiang Zhao (Math) received a $160,538 grant from the National Science Foundation to study computational modeling of complex structures.