History PhD candidate Brittany Lewis competed for the Miss Black America title to raise awareness of domestic violence and further her own doctoral research on racial justice. The last thing she expected was to win.
Autism is associated with eating irregularities like hyper-sensitivity to textures and ritualistic meal-times. Now Assistant Professor of Speech and Hearing Science Greg Wallace may have discovered a new connection with overeating.
Move over Woodward and Bernstein. Media and Public Affairs students Lillianna Byington and Robin Eberhardt followed an investigation into D.C. homelessness all the way to a front page byline in The Washington Post.
Research projects are in bloom at the new Wilbur V. Harlan Greenhouse atop Science and Engineering Hall. Named in recognition of alumnus Bill Harlan’s philanthropy to support future generations of biologists, the high-tech, open-air space is home to nearly 100 different plant species.
Through the Corcoran School’s new graduate degree in decorative arts and design history, students have unique “hands-on” access to Smithsonian resources, including rare collections and historical artifacts.
Using gene editing to study more than 20,000 distinct species of butterflies, Assistant Professor of Biology Arnaud Martin is unlocking the evolutionary genetics that shape the color pattern diversity of the insects’ wings.
As soccer players, Columbian College alumni Kenny Ames, BA ’99, and Evan Nierman, BA ’00, trained together at the Smith Center gym. The next time they met was as colleagues in Nierman’s PR firm, Red Banyan.
Columbian College's annual Arts & Sciences magazine, which hit alumni mailboxes last week, is now available online. Read all about the students, faculty and alumni who are making an impact through discovery, service and support. Send us your feedback at ccasnews@gwu.edu.
Louis Caldera was awarded a $100,000 contract from the Open Society Institute to convene a meeting of higher-education leaders to discuss federal immigration policies.
Susan E. Dudley received a $146,563 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to examine the impact of regulation on productivity and innovation.
Oleg Y. Kargaltsev was awarded a $57,923 grant from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for the multiwavelength identification of Fermi LAT sources.
Anthropology PhD student Enquye Negash received a $17,500 Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Akos Vertes received a $722,876 subaward from the National Science Foundation for research on system approaches to studying soybean root biology at high resolution.
