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2025听础肠丑颈别惫别尘别苍迟蝉Recent faculty, student, and alumni accomplishments
March
Dan Arbell (History, Center for Israel Studies) spoke with CGTN about .
Barbara Balestra (Environmental Science) received a $15,000 grant from the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) for the project 鈥淪patial distribution and chemical characterization of microplastic and microbeads in river sediments in the DC area.鈥
Christine Van Berten (World Languages and Cultures) received a $2,000 grant from the Albertine Foundation for the project 鈥淔rancophone Job Fair.鈥
Boncho Bonev (Physics) received supplemental funding of $58,886 (new total: $116,710) from Johns Hopkins University for the project 鈥淒isentangling natal and post-formation processing in comets through high-resolution infrared observations.鈥
Frederick Bruhweiler (Physics) received supplemental funding of $50,000 (new total: $367,869) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project 鈥淐ontinued Development of IR & Visible Spectrometer and Imaging Arrays for Ground-based & Space-borne Planetary Observations.鈥
Raychelle Burks (Chemistry) published "" in the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry.
Orisanmi Burton (Anthropology) published "" on Inquest.org.
Ernesto Casta帽eda (Sociology, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies) spoke with The National News Desk about . He also co-wrote a piece with Anthony Fontes and Melissa V谩squez for La Opinion .
Luis Cerezo Ceballos (World Languages and Cultures) published (Channel View Publications, 2025).
Bernhard Gunter (Economics) published聽"" in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies.听
Taisuke Izumi (Biology) has published "Targeting Latent HIV Reservoirs: Effectiveness of Combination Therapy with HDAC and PARP Inhibitors," which appeared on the cover of issue 3, volume 17 of Viruses. His students Hasset Tibebe, Dacia Marquez, and Grace Hillmer are co-authors.
Philip Johnson (Physics) received supplemental funding of $42,902 (new total: $337,551) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project 鈥淪pectroscopic Investigations of Processed Planetary and Astrophysical Ices with the Sublimation Laboratory Ice Millimeter/submillimeter Experiment.鈥
Chelsea Koch (Environmental Science) published a study in Frontiers in Marine Science on . She also received a $24,599 grant from the World Wildlife Fund to conduct biogeochemical analysis on Pacific walrus tissues harvest by subsistence hunters on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Strait as indicators of ecosystem changes underway.
Peter Kuznick (History) spoke with CGTN, RTVI, WION News, Channel One Russia, Izvestia, PBS, NTV, TVC, Kyodo News, Republic TV, Times Now, TASS, Press TV, and Okinawa TV about a variety of topics ranging from US foreign policy to the ongoing conflicts in the world.听
Dennis Lucarelli (Physics) received supplemental funding of $7,000 (new total: $103,291) from Dartmouth College for the project 鈥淨uantum Characterization and Model Reduction for Fault-Tolerant Qubit Networks.鈥
Steven MacAvoy (Environmental Science) received a $15,000 grant from the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) for the project 鈥淚nvestigation into the concentration and distribution of bisphenol A (BPA) in Anacostia and Potomac River sediments.鈥
Naomi Skiles (undergraduate student in Anthropology and Creative Writing) wrote for about the Native American Women Warriors (NAWW).
Nancy Snider (Performing Arts) received a $10,000 grant from the Koster Foundation for the project 鈥淜oster Foundation Summer Study Grant.鈥
Ricardo Torres (Economics) spoke with Reuters about .
Jonathan Tubman (Psychology) published "" in the Child and Adolsescent Social Work Journal.听
Brian T. Yates (Psychology) and Lilian Baeza-Mendoza (World Languages and Cultures) were selected as the winners of 麻豆破解版鈥檚 Green Teacher of the Year award by a committee of the Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning and the 麻豆破解版 Office of Sustainability.听
February
Nicole Angotti (Sociology) received an $8,458 grant from the George Washington University for the project 鈥淒istrict of Columbia Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR).鈥
Barbara Balestra (Environmental Science) published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Madeleine Bartin, Evelyn Bristol, and Ally Friedman (Physics students) won first place for their presentation at the 10th annual Optical Sciences Winter School & Workshop at the University of Arizona.
Laura Beers鈥 (History) Orwell鈥檚 Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century (W. W. Norton & Company) is a finalist in the .
Barbara Bernstein (Health Studies) published a guidebook on Latin dancing, .听
Kim Blankenship (Sociology) received supplemental funding of $6,864 (new total: $191,624) from Yale University for the project 鈥淭he effects of rental assistance on type 2 diabetes self-management and control.鈥
E Dale Broder (Biology) published in Current Biology. Also summarized in .
Orisanmi Burton (Anthropology) appeared on to speak about the New York prison guard strike.
Ernesto Casta帽eda (Sociology) was featured in WalletHub鈥檚 article about the .
Frederick Bruhweiler (Physics) received supplemental funding of $30,725 (new total: $210,725) for the project 鈥淒evelopment of the MeDDEA Instrument for the PADRE CubeSat Mission to Observe the Sun in High-Energy X-rays.鈥澛
Douglas Fox (Chemistry) received a $10,611 grant from Vireo Advisors, LLC, for the project 鈥淢igration through Cellulose Crystal - Polymer Laminate Film.鈥
Kim Blankenship (Sociology), Robert Blecker (Economics), David Culver (Environmental Science),聽Gregg Harry (Physics), and Nathalie Japkowicz (Computer Science) were listed on the .
Peter Kuznick (History) spoke with TVC, Times Now India, WION News, Izvestia, CGTN, RT International, TASS, RTVI, CNN News18, Zvezda, Kyodo News, and NTV about a variety of topics ranging from nuclear weaposn history to the ongoing conflicts in the world.听
Liana Petruzzi (Health Studies) published and in the Journal of Community Psychology, and in the Coalition for CHW-SW Collaboration.
Michael Robinson (Mathematics and Statistics) received supplemental funding of $22,000 (new total: $54,000) from Galois for the project 鈥淓mergent Risks.鈥
Eli Rockenbeck (student, Physics) won the 鈥淧iers J. Sellers Award for Interdisciplinary Science鈥 from the organizers of a poster presentation event at NASA Goddard.
Nathaniel Roth (Physics) received supplemental funding of $14,514 from the Space Telescope Science Institute (TSCI) for the project 鈥淎n Empirical Calibration of the NIRSpec IFU Point Spread Function to Enable High Contrast.鈥
Thurka Sangaramoorthy (Anthropology) spoke with the about the potential impact of increased immigration enforcement on workplace safety.
Richard C. Sha (Literature) has been asked to be one of three judges for the Marilyn Gaull Prize for the best book in Romanticism. He evaluated Franklin Grants for the American Philosophical Society last year.
Stacey Snelling (Health Studies) received a $45,000 grant from the DC Central Kitchen for the project 鈥淗ealthy Corners Program Evaluation.鈥
Mike Treanor (Computer Science) and Nathan Harshman (Physics) were interviewed for Krzysztof Pietroszek鈥檚 (Film and Media Arts, SOC) .听
January
Vladimir Airapetian (Physics) received a $53,737 grant from the University of Alabama at Huntsville for the project 鈥淪ignatures of Coronal Mass Ejections and Energetic Particles and their Impact on Early Phases of Evolution of Low Mass Stars.鈥
Dan Arbell (History, Meltzer Schwartzberg Center for Israel Studies) appeared on a panel on to discuss the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
Ernesto Castan虄eda (Sociology, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies) spoke with about President-elect Donald Trump鈥檚 proposed deportation plan. He also co-authored an article for about the U.S. immigration process.
Thomas Fauchez (Physics) received supplemental funding of $112,865 (new total: $225,278) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project 鈥淒etectability of water in the atmosphere of terrestrial habitable zone exoplanets due to exo-volcanism: a false positive for habitability.鈥
Jessica Gephart (Environmental Science) discussed the environmental impact of seafood with .
Peter Kuznick (History) spoke with NTV, WION News, WBAI, The Chugoku Shimbun, Eurasia Review, , CGTN, Zvezda, CNN News 18, The Times Now (India), CGTN鈥檚 The Point, , The Asahi Shimbun, RTVI, REN TV (Russia), Channel One Russia, CGTN World Insight, RT International, acTVism Munich, RiaNovosti, NDTV, Al-Sharq News, Republic World, and TVC about a variety of topics including the passing of President Jimmy Carter, the U.S. election, nuclear weapons history, and the ongoing conflicts in the world.
Allan Lichtman (History) spoke with about President Joe Biden鈥檚 peaceful handoff of power and the historical significance of this approach.
Pamela Nadell (History, Jewish Studies Program) spoke with about programs to fight antisemitism.
Nathaniel Roth (Physics) received an $18,430 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) for the project 鈥淭esting Natal Heritage Among Comet Dynamical Families: A JWST Study of Parent Volatiles in Halley-Type Comets.鈥
Thurka Sangaramoorthy (Anthropology) authored an article for about Sudan鈥檚 climate issues and the failure of the country鈥檚 health systems. In an article for聽, Sangaramoorthy wrote about why Trump's withdrawal from WHO threatens global health security and equity.
Alanna Warner-Smith (Anthropology) published "" in聽The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology,聽edited by Pamela Geller. The chapter examines domestic work, performed by women born in Ireland, as part of the urban labor regime in nineteenth-century New York City.
Alexander Zestos (Chemistry)聽received a grant and administrative supplement of $55,000 to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to perform customer discovery for novel neural technology.