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January 2012 |

Ben Bernanke to Deliver Lectures in GW Class
The Federal Reserve chairman will give George Washington undergraduate students an inside look the central banking system in a series of lectures this spring.
Today’s reading by Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of “The Far Euphrates,” is the first of six from visiting artists in this spring’s Jewish Literature Live course.
Deborah Tillman, who received her master’s at GW, operates three Virginia childcare centers and stars as Lifetime’s new ‘supernanny.’
The curtain rises on GW Ballroom’s inaugural “Dancing With GW” competition on Feb. 9 in Lisner Auditorium.
University ranks No. 1 for fourth consecutive year among medium-sized schools.
University ranks No. 1 for fourth consecutive year among medium-sized schools.
Karen Mills will discuss resources available to those wanting to start a business on Feb. 1 at Jack Morton Auditorium.
The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health has received a $175, 851 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation to address the role of spirituality and health in creating more compassionate systems of care.
Check out a documentary on a group of doctors from the GW Cheney Cardiovascular Institute who traveled to Honduras this summer to perform heart surgeries on dozens of patients in need of a pacemaker or defibrillator.
Emergency medicine professor Jesse Pines co-authored an article comparing concierge medicine versus patient-centered medical homes and whether either lowers cost while increasing quality.
Katherine Chretien, associate professor in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, advocates for greater support for nursing mothers and discusses the many benefits of breastfeeding.
In advance of the upcoming argument before the Supreme Court, health policy and law professor Sara Rosenbaum examines the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law in the New England Journal of Medicine.
GW Hospital, the regional leader for robotic surgery and the home to one of the largest robotic programs in the nation, will open the region's first multi-specialty robotic training center this summer.
Virginia Governor Bob McDonald launched a new marketing effort to highlight the state as a great place to start or expand a cyber security-related company. The governor's report highlighted GW's Cyber Security Initiative and its planned master's degree in cyber security studies.
GW came in second place in an intercollegiate conservation challenge between American and Howard universities. The Alliance to Save Energy, a nonprofit promoting energy efficiency, measured the schools’ total November energy consumption and compared it to that of November 2010.