Plus, Welcome, New Faculty!
Plus, Welcome, New Faculty!
Columbian College

September 2018

Ballot Box
Can mathematics save our election system?  Daniel Ullman and E. Arthur Robinson forecast the pluses and minuses of the way we count votes.
Students atop Kilimanjaro
Through an organization that helps students combine international travel with charitable giving, 14 GW students experienced an adventure of a lifetime: climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.
ape mother and baby
Anthropology’s Shannon McFarlin will travel to Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania as she leads a landmark study of weaning behavior among chimpanzees and mountain gorillas.
SMPA Fellows
The White House Correspondents’ Association president, a former deputy White House press secretary, a high-ranking American diplomat and an Emmy Award-winning television director all compromise the 2018-2019 class of School of Media and Public Affairs Fellows.
Professors Gate
Columbian College welcomed 29 new full-time faculty this year, strengthening disciplines across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Biology’s Leon Grayfer
Biology’s Leon Grayfer received a prestigious CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation for his work on amphibian immune responses to a deadly global virus.
Sam Tiratto
How did a multiracial movement of Black Panthers and working-class whites arise in 1960s Chicago? History senior and Luther Rice Fellow Sam Tiratto went searching for answers.
Virtual Book club
The GW Alumni Virtual Book Club kicks off with The Creative Curve by CCAS alumnus Allen Gannett, BA ’12. The author, who founded two companies and topped the Forbes list of young venture capitalists, reveals his thoughts on creativity and commercial success.

Kudos!

Psychology doctoral student Sanam Singh Dhaliwal was awarded a $33,426 grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine the role of sleep disturbance in the development of perinatal depression.

Melani McAlister authored the book The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals.

Patricia Phalen received the Barry Sherman Teaching Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for innovation in the teaching of media management, economics or entrepreneurship.

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