Architecture Seminar Draws Modern Building Blueprints
Architecture Seminar Draws Modern Building Blueprints
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Spotlight: Excellence in Action

May 2017
Waberi sitting down

For Waberi, Voices of Genocide Echo From Rwanda
French Professor Abdourahman Waberi, an acclaimed author and poet, traveled to Rwanda to speak to both survivors of the nation’s genocide and its perpetrators. Two decades later, the stories he heard continue to haunt his writing and his life.
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Victoria Skrivanos

Sophomore Sets a Place at the Table for the Homeless
Political science sophomore Victoria Skrivanos has an appetite for food and philanthropy. With the help of her family, she’s combined her passions and hit on a recipe for feeding the homeless, both in her Massachusetts hometown and in D.C.
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Francisco Kilgore sits in Kogan

Tech Passion Drives Alumnus to Sustainable Car Company
Francisco Kilgore, BA ’16, rode his own passion for research and technology to his dream job at Tesla, a sustainability-focused car company. Now he’s using the problem-solving skills he learned as an anthropology undergraduate to keep customers satisifed and on the right road.
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Former NASA Admin speaks to a crowd

NASA Executive Advises LEAD Cohort to be Role Models
In a lecture to the junior military officers in Columbian College’s LEAD master’s program, former NASA astronaut Charles Bolden underscored the importance of being good role models to soldiers under their charge. Graduates of the rigorous program spend two years at the U.S. Naval Academy before continuing their military careers.
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Faculty member accepts award from President Knapp.

Faculty Awards Honor Teaching, Scholarship, Service
Anthropology’s David Braun, Biology’s Diana Lipscomb and Economics and International Affairs’ Graciela Laura Kaminsky  each received the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Faculty Prize—GW’s  top faculty award—for their work in teaching, research and service to the university.
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Stephanie Travis’ (right) seminar introduces freshmen like Bailee Weisz (left) to architectural concepts. (Photos: Long Nguyen)

Architecture Seminar Follows Modern Building Blueprints
The East Wing of the National Gallery vs. the West. Form vs. function. Frank Lloyd Wright vs. the world. In the Modern Architecture and Design Dean’s Seminar, the floor is open for dynamic debates. And you don’t have to be a building buff to join in.
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Mom and baby bonobo wade in stream

Bonobos May be Humans’ Closest ‘Living’ Ancestors
Bonobos may be more closely linked to human ancestors than chimpanzees, according to a research team that included paliobiologist Bernard Wood. The study was the first to compare the detailed anatomy of the three species.
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Little medical symbols on pills

Researchers: No Link Between PrEP and Risky Behavior
A study led by Psychology’s Sarah Calabrese found that medical providers who prescribed PrEP to prevent HIV saw no widespread increases in risky sexual behavior among PrEP-taking patients. Doctors worry that the breakthrough HIV prevention method is unduly stigmatized in the medical field and beyond.
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Psychology's Lisa Bowleg

New Tool Measures Impact of Police Interactions With Black Men
Psychology's Lisa Bowleg has helped devise a tool that measures how interactions with law enforcement affect the mental health of African American men. Her research, among the first to include black men's point of view, found that police-based discrimination is linked to depression symptoms such as sadness, hopelessness and loss of ambition
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Flemming award winners pose for a photo

Landslides, Mosquitos and Nukes: Flemming Winners Thwart Threats

From keeping drinking water algae-free to curtailing nuclear waste, the federal employees honored at the 68th annual Arthur S. Flemming Awards are finding new ways to protect the world. Sponsored by the Trachtenberg School, the Flemmings recognize government personnel on the forefront of science.
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Kudos!
PhD candidates Rachel Burga, Thomas Dolan, David Jeffries and Justin Mann were the 2017 Columbian College inductees into the GW Chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Society.
Daniel DeWispelare wrote the book Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Jenna Weissman Joselit authored the book Set in Stone: America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments.
Political science sophomore Jazmin Kay was awarded the Carlozzi Family Scholarship from New York Women in Communications and was interviewed on the TODAY show. 
Chet Sherwood received a $20,000 University of Chicago Mentorship Award.
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