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Stay Prepared as Hurricane Florence Makes Landfall

Hurricane Florence is making its way to the Carolinas, bringing heavy rain and wind that will significantly impact the region. While Washington, D.C., is not directly in the path of the storm, the...

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New CCAS Professor Using Physics to Study Extremism

By Kristen Mitchell

Security experts often focus on individual bad actors who lead terrorist attacks, but tracing the radicalization of one leader doesn’t necessarily explain why a...

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Putin Uses ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics against His Hardline Allies

By Tatyana Hopkins

Though Russian President Vladimir Putin may find his exercise of power gratifying in some ways, he probably also finds it “increasingly exhausting” but fears what would...

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Men’s Basketball Announces 2018-2019 Schedule

The GW men's basketball program has announced its Atlantic 10 Conference schedule for the 2018-19 season, which includes home games with Dayton, Virginia Commonwealth, Saint Louis and St....

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What Happens to Football Players after They Quit the Game?

By Kristen Mitchell

Playing professional football is sort of like a drawn-out apprenticeship, said...

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DeRay McKesson Talks about His New Book

By B.L. Wilson

In an evening of serious subjects interrupted regularly by bursts of laughter, Taylor Branch, chronicler of the modern civil rights era, engaged activist DeRay McKesson in a...

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GW Program on Extremism, The New York Times Announce ‘ISIS Files’ Research Partnership

The George Washington University Program on Extremism will create a virtual public archive of the New York Times’ “...

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First-Year Students Join the GW Community through Service

The university’s largest Freshman Convocation and Day of Service featured service at more than 40 sites in the D.C. area.

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GW Shifts Positions in Two College Rankings

In college rankings released this week and last week, the George Washington University moved both up and down when compared to previous years.

In the U.S. News & World Report rankings...

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President LeBlanc's Full Convocation 2018 Speech

So, you have been on our campus for a couple of weeks now—I've seen you. But today is the first day in which you formally become part of our campus community.

That’s because today, we...