Hello fellow Research Administrators,

OSP is pleased to inform you that in the near future all existing subawards with issued PO # will no longer be a part of the procurement process. With the effective change, all subawards’ invoice payments will be processed directly by the Accounts Payable through People Soft payment request. Once the new process will be in place, there will be a step-by-step information included with the invoice email on how to process the payment.

Congratulations to the following faculty, students, and alumni for their recent accomplishments!  

Michael Bass, Psychology ‘12, and Andre Crawley, Visual Arts ‘09, were named Baltimore Rising Stars by the Baltimore Business Journal.

Danielle L. Beatty Moody, Psychology, shared her research on how racial discrimination affects women's health in Everyday discrimination literally raises women's blood pressure, in The Atlantic.

Amy Bhatt, Gender and Women’s Studies, discussed family separations in the Trump era, in the Academic Minute.

Tim Brennan, Public Policy and Economics, will discuss The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust Law at the November Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21^st Century.

Chris Curran, Public Policy, discussed law enforcement officers in k-12 public schools in “Academic Minute: School Resource Officers and Discipline,” in Inside Higher Ed.

Steven Dashiell, PhD student in Language, Literacy, and Culture, won the Best Student Paper in American Culture award at the Popular Culture Association of the South conference.

Rhiannon Dowling, M.A. ‘09 in Historical Studies (Advisor: Kate Brown), won this year's Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, “Brezhnev's War on Crime: The Criminal in Soviet Society, 1963-1982.”

Matt Fagan, Geography and Environmental Systems, conducted research which suggests tropical forests are rarely given a chance to fully regrow before they are cleared again, limiting their carbon-storage benefits, in the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Natural History of Ecological Restoration Blog.

Cathy Graham, Economics ‘81, was named to the 2018 Washington Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business list.

Nancy Kusmaul, Social Work, received the Distinguished Alumni Awardfrom the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.

Jane Lincove, Public Policy, discussed her research on understanding the link between school choice and transportation in How does school choice affect student commutes in New Orleans?, in EdWeek.

Christine Mallinson, Language, Literacy, & Culture, published the co-edited book Rural Voices: Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place.

Roy Meyers, Political Science, was awarded the Aaron Wildavsky Award for lifetime achievement, from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.

Erin O’Keefe, M.P.P ’10 and current Public Policy PhD student, will present at the October Coalition of Urban Metropolitan Universities conference on leading a place-based community engagement initiative. Her work is highlighted as one of five case studies in a new book, Place Based Community Engagement in Higher Education by Kent Koth and Erica Yamura.

Rebecca Postowski, M.P.P, received a fellowship to attend the Behavioral Energy and Climate Change Conference in DC.

Bob Provine, Psychology, weighs in on the lasting effects laugher can have on a person, both good and bad, in Christine Blasey Ford and the dark side of laughter, in the Washington Post, and in Beaumont Enterprise.

Susan M. Sterett, Public Policy, published “Data Access as Regulation,” in American Behavioral Scientist. She also co-authored “Symposium: Reflecting on the Profession” with Jennifer A. Diascro, in PS: Political Science and Politics.

Congratulations to the following faculty, students, and alumni for their recent accomplishments!  

Matthew Baker, Geography and Environmental Systems, published “Drones to track one of the largest dam removals on the East Coast” in The Conversation.

Amy Bhatt, Gender and Women’s Studies, published “India’s sodomy ban, now ruled illegal, was a British colonial legacy,” in The Conversation.

Nancy Kusmaul, Social Work, was named as Book, Media, and Resource Review Editor of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

Tara McMullen, PhD '14, Gerontology, received the 2018 Carroll L. Estes Rising Star Award from the Gerontological Society of America.

Derek Musgrove, History, comments on Washington, D.C. in 1984 in the article, “Wonder Woman’s version of 1984 D.C. versus the real thing,” in the Washington City Paper.  

John Rennie Short, Public Policy, published “Campaign season is moving into high gear—your vote may not count as much as you think” in The Conversation. 

Susan Sonnenschein, Psychology, and Rebecca Dowling, M.A. '16, Psychology, Ph.D. '21, Psychology, published “5 math skills your child needs to get ready for kindergarten” in The Conversation.

Susan Sterett, Public Policy, published “Law's Presence, Law's Absence: Reporting Stories of Employment Discrimination in the Academy” in the journal Politics & Gender.