Immigration Status Impacts Wellbeing

Elizabeth Vaquera, director of the GW Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute, spoke with CCAS Dean Paul Wahlbeck about the impact of immigration status on education, health and social and emotional wellbeing.

Finding Beauty Behind Prison Bars

First-year criminal justice and journalism major Lea Nepomuceno advocates for the rights of incarcerated people. Her newest project aims to ease a hygiene crisis in prisons—and help restore dignity to inmates.

Org Sci Class Examines Extreme Decision Making

Students in Nils Olsen’s seminar on Extreme Decisions explore how decision makers operate under intense pressure—from surgeons and executives to an inspiring athlete.

CCAS Student Raises Lung Cancer Awareness

As a national leader of lung cancer screening initiatives, junior neuroscience major Shreya Papneja (top row, center) promotes early detection efforts on campus and on Capitol Hill.

For Alumnus Author, Short Stories Hold Wide Themes

In his acclaimed collection Dearborn, author Ghassan Zeineddine, BA ’02, a former psychology major and creative writing minor, follows Arab Americans in Michigan through 9/11 and the 2016 election.

Acornucopia: Corcoran Student Grinds Acorns to Art

Campus art lovers were nuts for MFA student Shawn Shafner’s interactive acorn project as they cracked open the Indigenous food source and explored its role in making pancakes, coffee and natural dyes.

Terker Fellow Tracks Trump Turmoil

Terker Distinguished Fellow and ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl shared details from his book on Donald Trump’s tumultuous White House term in a discussion with alumna and CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, BA ’93.

Graduate Student Follows COVID North

Graduate student Laura Goodfield (right) collaborated with Geography Professor Marya Rozanova-Smith (left) on a NSF-funded project examining the impact of COVID on Arctic women. Their research was presented at an international event in Iceland.

Douglas Boyce (Music) released his third portrait album, The Bird is an Alphabet.

Adam Dean (Political Science) was named one of the principal investigators on a WorkRise project investigating whether unionization at hospitals and nursing homes contributes to better wages and working conditions, and whether those gains are especially strong for Black workers in health care settings.

Edward Green, BA ’67, (Anthropology) published his memoir, On the Fringe: Confessions of a Maverick Anthropologist.

Chryssa Kouveliotou (Physics), a Shaw Prize recipient, was named one of the top female scientists in the world by Research.com.

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