Noteworthy
"Noteworthy" is a monthly compilation of important awards, achievements and grants received by Columbian College faculty, students and alumni. Articles published in academic journals are also included among these recognitions.
Recent Recognition
Thomas J Billard, BA ’14, (Political Communication) and Silvio Waisbord (Media & Public Affairs) co-authored the book Public Scholarship in Communication Studies (University of Illinois Press, 2024).
Richard Chasdi (Political Science) published the book, Corporate Security Intelligence: An Assessment of Host Country Vulnerability to Terrorism (Springer, 2024).
Barry Chiswick (Economics) was interviewed for the podcast “The Work Goes On: An Oral History of Industrial Relations and Labor Economics.”
Jody Ganiban (Psychology) received a $705,341 award from the National Institute of Health for their research on the early growth and development study of the ECHO cohort.
Junior Shani Glassberg (Biology) was awarded the SMART Scholarship by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Olga Jaramillo, MA ’21, (New Media Photojournalism) was awarded the Women’s Photojournalists of Washington’s Butterfly Grant, for her project “Dos Mundos” (“Two Worlds”), which narrates the hardships of four mothers as they immigrate to the United States.
Eric Lee, MA ’20, (New Media Photojournalism) was named a New York Times Fellow, a one-year work program aimed at cultivating the next generation of journalists.
Sidney Monroe Willams (Theatre) was selected for a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to Colombia in the academic year 2024-2025 to engage Colombia’s history and present in regards to Afro-Colombian artistic contributions.
Kylie Quave (Writing, Anthropology) and sophomore Savannah Hagen Ohbi co-authored the article “Teaching and Learning a Joyful Citation Praxis: Affective Relations for Fostering Community Through Our Compositions” in the journal Radical Teacher.
Rachel Shank, MPA ’19, (Public Administration) was selected to the inaugural cohort of the Federal City Council's Emerging Leaders Program.
Caroline Smith (Writing) won honorable mention for the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies at the National Popular Culture Conference for her book Season to Taste (University Press of Mississippi, 2023).
Jasmine Smith (Political Science) received a $14,000 grant from Unite America for a 2024 Primary Election Study.
Rebekah Tromble (Media & Public Affairs) received a $150,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for White House IPA support.
Christopher Warshaw won the American Political Science Association’s Virginia Gray Book Award for Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States, which he co-authored with Devin Caughey.
The Department of Physics received a $1,000 award from the 2024 American Physical Society (APS) Women in Physics Group Grant to support physics initiatives for women led by undergraduate student Olivia Nippe-Jeakins and graduate student Hallie Fausey.