Edward ‘Skip’ Gnehm Jr. Awarded GW President’s Medal
By Kristen Mitchell
Former ambassador Edward “Skip” Gnehm Jr., the Elliott School of International Affairs’ Kuwait Professor of Gulf...
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Edward ‘Skip’ Gnehm Jr. Awarded GW President’s Medal
By Kristen Mitchell
Former ambassador Edward “Skip” Gnehm Jr., the Elliott School of International Affairs’ Kuwait Professor of Gulf...
Class of 2017 Looks Back on Moments That Mattered
With the 2017 Commencement on the National Mall only days away, GW Today asked seniors and graduate students to reflect on their favorite memories during their time at the George Washington...
‘We Are Closer to Mars Today Than We Have Ever Been’
By Kristen Mitchell
When it comes to visiting Mars, flags and footprints left behind are not enough, said astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Engineers,...
GW Community Celebrates President Knapp’s Legacy
By Ruth Steinhardt
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff gathered Saturday afternoon to bid farewell to George Washington University President Steven Knapp, who will end his...
Olympic Champions Speak out on Mental Health
By B.L. Wilson
Olympics swimming icons Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt have acknowledged struggles with depression, sometimes ignoring symptoms until confronted with the...
Message from President Steven Knapp
In recent days, two neighboring institutions, fellow members of our Consortium of Universities of Metropolitan Washington, have been subjected to horrendous incidents of racial hate-mongering. ...
New Tool for Measuring Police Interactions Reflects Discrimination Experiences of Black Men
Researchers have developed a new tool to catalog police and law enforcement interactions with black men, the Police and Law Enforcement (PLE) Scale, with the hope of documenting people’s...
Rediscovering Biafra through a Nigerian Novelist
“I grew up in the shadow of Biafra,” said best-selling novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to a crowd gathered at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History...
Bonobos May Resemble Humans More Than You Think
A new study on the muscular system of bonobos provided firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species might be more closely linked to human ancestors than common chimpanzees. Previous research...