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...
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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...
Town Hall Helps International Students Navigate U.S. Higher Ed
International students from around the world on Wednesday had an opportunity to hear from higher education experts, who gave them a close-up look at the realities of applying for admission and...
NLRB Cancels Union Vote for Resident Advisors
The Service Employees International Union Local 500 has withdrawn its petition calling for a vote among resident advisors at the George Washington University to unionize. As a result, the National...
SMPA Senior’s Dispatches from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Senior Teniola Ayoola became the third recipient of the George Washington University-White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) scholarship this April—and she never saw it coming. “I didn’t...