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GW Researchers Awarded $7 million in Grants to Study Microbiome and Disease Prevention

The Milken Institute School of Public Health has received two grants totaling $7 million to study the human microbiome, the collection of bacteria and other microbes that live in and on the human...

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After the Brexit, EU Enters Unknown Territory

The United Kingdom awoke Saturday morning to find it was no longer part of the European Union following an unprecedented referendum in which 52 percent of voters cast their ballots in favor of a “...

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Controlled Blasting Planned for Square 75 on Pennsylvania Avenue

Controlled blasting is scheduled to occur once daily at 2112 Pennsylvania Avenue on Square 75 beginning in late June or early July. The site located on Pennsylvania Avenue NW...

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Brain Trust at George Washington

By Sarah Zielinski

In a lab on the sixth floor of George Washington Univeristy’s Science and Engineering Hall, Cheryl Stimpson is working with what looks...

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Researchers Find Wind Nebula Surrounding Ultra-magnetic Star

By Kristen Mitchell

George Washington University scientists have detected the first example of a cloud of high-energy particles surrounding an ultra rare star about 13,000 light years from...

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Tips for Men’s Health Month

June is Men’s Health Month, a national education program marked by health screenings, fairs and other outreach activities to encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys...

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Big Tobacco and the Black Community

By John DiConsiglio

Growing up in a small Texas town, political science major Lincoln Mondy, B.A. ’16, could name the colors on a Newport cigarette pack the way most kids can describe the...

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Defenders in the ‘War on Girls’

By Ruth Steinhardt

Grace was barely a teenager when her paternal uncle kidnapped her at gunpoint and sold her for marriage to a much older man in exchange...

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Walkable Urban Places Gain on Suburbs

By Kristen Mitchell

For the first time since cars, quieter streets and spacious homes lured people out of...

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Orlando Massacre: What We Know

By Julyssa Lopez

U.S. officials say that Omar Mateen committed one of the largest mass shootings in the country’s history last Sunday when he opened fire at the gay Orlando night club...