What You Think Is What You See
By Ruth Steinhardt
Many people have an intuitive, though incorrect, understanding of how the brain works: Our senses perceive objectively factual data, and our higher-level thought...
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LGBT Health Forum Discusses Stonewall Riots
By B.L. Wilson
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City when gay people and police clashed outside a bar in what is viewed as a historic moment...
$10 Million in Campus Improvements Coming This Summer
The George Washington University will direct $10 million toward dozens of projects this summer to address issues in residential, academic and administrative spaces, improving the university...
Message from President LeBlanc on Strategic Planning Process
To the GW Community:
I recently returned from the annual George Washington University Board of Trustees retreat. The board, along with university and faculty leadership, spent two days...
University Hires Dana Bradley as Chief People Officer
As part of an ongoing effort to transform the George Washington University’s culture, Dana Bradley, associate vice president for human resources at Northwestern University, will become GW’s first-...
Kym Rice Named Interim Director of the Corcoran
The George Washington University announced Monday that Kym Rice will serve as interim director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design during the search for a successor to director Sanjit...
Two GW Researchers Receive Prestigious Presidential Award
President Trump has named two George Washington University professors winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE): Chunlei Liang, associate professor in...
GW Students Share Experiences from PossePlus Summit
By Briahnna Brown
Growing up in Atlanta, many of Shelby Singleton’s peers tried to become Posse scholars.
A rising junior studying political communication in the George Washington...
GW Develops a ‘Guide to Indigenous D.C.’
By Tatyana Hopkins
A new tool will help visitors to Washington, D.C., discover the historic and contemporary landmarks of those who inhabited the city’s land before its development...
50 Years Later: Former GW Professor Reflects on the Apollo Program
By Kristen Mitchell
Dianne Martin, Ed.D. ’87, likes to say she got involved with the Apollo program “quite by chance.” She was one year out of college and teaching ninth grade math when...