Plus, Wahlbeck Named CCAS Interim Dean
Plus, Wahlbeck Named CCAS Interim Dean
Columbian College

April 2018
Alumna with children

Alumna's Mission: Making Educational Dreams a Reality
Ashleigh DeLuca, BA ’13, helped impoverished Gambian children graduate from high school. But she’s not stopping there. Now she's raising funds for them to attend college in the U.S.
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Eva and dancers

Student's Hybrid Project Marries Politics and Dance
Political science and dance major Eva Gustafson combined her fields of study into a Luther Rice Undergraduate Fellowship dance production that celebrates the journey of American women through the eyes of Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton.  
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Blecher, Khory, and Chapman

Three Historians Awarded ACLS Fellowships
Three CCAS history professors—Joel Blecher, Dina Khoury and Erin Chapman—were awarded 2018-19 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships. It’s a rare feat for one department in one institution to receive three of the prestigious honors in the same year. 
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Leeana Skuby

Student Teacher Turns Passion Into a Career
Inspired by a class on poverty and race, senior sociology major and first-generation college student Leeana Skuby turned her fellowship with Teach for America into a job opportunity. After graduating from Columbian College, she’ll teach high school social studies in Detroit.
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Alison Brooks and her team

Uncovering Early Evidence of Modern Human Emergence 
Anthropology’s Alison Brooks led a team of international collaborators, including CCAS students and Smithsonian scientists, on an East African exhibition that uncovered evidence of early humans forming social networks hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
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Paul Wahlbeck

Paul Wahlbeck Named Interim Dean of Columbian College
Paul Wahlbeck, CCAS vice dean for programs and research and professor of political science, will serve as interim dean of the college following the departure of Dean Ben Vinson in July. 
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Painted turtle

Living Art: When a Chemistry Lab Becomes a Studio
Chemistry’s Erik Rodriguez experiments with fluorescent proteins to unlock cellular secrets. But he’s also found another use for the multi-colored microbes: paint for creating his own protein portraits from living material. 
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Licht

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Project Earns Accolades
Chemistry's Stuart Licht and his team of researchers are finalists in a $20 million research competition for their C2CNT project, a low-energy, low-cost method of transforming the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into harmless and widely-used carbon nanotubes. 
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Nunez

Finding a 'Double' Internship Connection
Junior history and American studies major Anayeli Nuñez merged her love of history with her Spanish-speaking skills to secure “double” internships—one with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and another with the National Archives and Records Administration. 
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Face in dots

New BA, BS in Neuroscience Opens Avenues of Insights
Neuroscience is uncovering new insights into the biological basis of behavior and thought as well as the role of the brain in mediating outcomes. With the new BA in cognitive neuroscience and BS in neuroscience, CCAS students are on the forefront of an emerging field. 
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New Faculty Books
Samuel Goldman authored God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America.

Eric Grynaviski published the book America's Middlemen: Power at the Edge of Empire. 

Eric Kramon wrote the book Money for Votes: The Causes and Consequences of Electoral Clientelism in Africa.

Cynthia McClintock authored Electoral Rules and Democracy in Latin America.

Kudos!
The following CCAS faculty members received top awards in recognition of their efforts in the classroom: Denver Brunsman (Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence); Diane Cline (Morton A. Bender Teaching Award); and Katharine White (Philip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award).
Dana Tai Soon Burgess was awarded the 2018 Paul Re Peace Prize by the University of New Mexico Foundation for bridging communities around the globe through choreography. 
Jennifer Chang received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Chryssa Kouveliotou was awarded a $46,320 grant from The Smithsonian Institution for her work on Chandra ToO observations of swift galactic plane survey sources.
Shannon McFarlin received a $20,444 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on weaned-age variation in mountain gorillas using trace element distributions in teeth.
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