Mind Games: Can Humans Really Shape Their Brains?
Mind Games: Can Humans Really Shape Their Brains?
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Spotlight: Excellence in Action

November 2016
William Atkins Curator at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History

At African American Museum, Alumni Bring History to Life
From driving Chuck Berry’s famous Cadillac to flying the Tuskegee Airmen’s training plane, Columbian College alumni curators at the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture have scoured the country to find the people and objects that tell the complex story of black life in America.
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Daniel Weiss, President and COO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alumnus Dan Weiss Honored for ‘Towering’ Achievements
Columbian College graduate Daniel H. Weiss, BA ’79, president and COO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, headlined an illustrious roster of alumni honored at the 80th annual Alumni Achievement Awards. Weiss is a past president of Haverford College and Lafayette College and dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University. 
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Three Interior Architecture & Design alumni, creators of a new app, Homee

For Interior Design Alumni, Homee Is Where the Heart Is
For three Interior Architecture & Design alumni, a chance meeting in a GW drafting class led to an enduring friendship and a business venture. The trio make up the sharp minds behind Homee, an app that makes interior design easy and fun. 
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Tadeusz Zawidzki, Mind Games

Mind Games: Can Humans Really Shape Their Brains?
The capacity for human beings to get along holds our society together. But how do we do it? Challenging decades of scientific thought, Philosophy’s Tadeusz W. Zawidzki says we are a species of “mindshapers,” intricately molding our brains—and those of the people around us—to conform to societal norms. 
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Mel Chin, the Corcoran School’s inaugural William Wilson Corcoran visiting professor

Corcoran’s Mel Chin Highlights ‘Empathetic’ Artwork
Whether his art is memorializing the Tiananmen Square massacre or presenting a bronze sculpture of his own tongue, Mel Chin, the Corcoran School’s inaugural William Wilson Corcoran visiting professor, entertains and challenges audiences while stressing the artist’s responsibility to feel empathy for his subjects and embrace collaboration. 
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James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Telescope Spies Future Space Discoveries
At a Department of Physics colloquium on the future of science, a Nobel-winning astrophysicist discussed the impact to space exploration of the James Webb Telescope, an instrument powerful enough to detect a bumble bee on the moon. 
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Kudos!
Mark Abramson’s, BA ’10, photo exhibit Two Face, was presented at the United Photo Industries Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Tyler Anbinder published the book City of Dreams: The 400-year Epic History of Immigrant New York (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016).
Shelley Brundage received the Best Education Development Abstract Award from the 2016 Australasian Simulation Congress. 
Daniel Lippman, BA ’12, was named one of LinkedIn's Next Wave: Top Professionals 35 & Under.
Erin A. C. Mast, MA ’03, received the Presidential Award of Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons from Secretary of State John Kerry for her work with Students Opposing Slavery.
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