Homegrown Terror a Growing Threat in U.S.
By Kristen Mitchell
In the 51 terrorist plots carried out by jihadists in Europe and North America in the past three years, 73 percent of attackers were citizens of the country where the...
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GW Participates in UN Summit on Small Businesses
George Washington University Vice President for Research Leo Chalupa and Professor of Management Ayman El Tarabishy spoke at the first United Nations (UN) Knowledge Summit on Micro-, Small and...
Q & A with GW’s Executive Director of Sustainability on the Paris Agreement
By Ruth Steinhardt
Kathleen Merrigan, executive director of sustainability at the George Washington University, led a panel at the 2015...
GW Law Professor Analyzes Ex-FBI Director’s Hill Testimony
Former FBI Director James Comey discussed his...
Lawrence Deyton Installed as Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
Lawrence “Bopper” Deyton, M.D. ’85, senior associate dean for clinical public health and professor of medicine at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), returned in...
Actor Alan Alda Discusses the Art of Communicating Science Effectively
By B.L. Wilson
Alan Alda, actor, and now author and raconteur, stepped onto the stage of George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium Thursday night to thunderous applause, whistles...
GW Researchers to Test Efficacy of Hookworm Vaccine
By Kristen Mitchell
George Washington University researchers received $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to test the efficacy of a hookworm vaccine candidate developed and...
GW Students to Examine Virginia Opioid Crisis
By Kristen Mitchell
A team of George Washington University students is working to combat the opioid crisis in Virginia by analyzing data related to the issue in order to identify patterns...
Researcher Studies Protein Variants in Prostate Cancer
By Kristen Mitchell
A George Washington University researcher was awarded a $1.8 million grant to study genetic factors that make prostate cancer nearly three times more deadly in African...
George Washington Joins U.S. Effort to Support the 2015 Paris Agreement
George Washington President Steven Knapp has joined with hundreds of higher education presidents, governors, mayors, businesses and investors in signing a letter saying that they intend to support...