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Key Education Study Findings Unveiled at GW

More than 70 percent of Americans say they have confidence in public schools teachers, and 69 percent gave A or B grades to the teachers in their local public schools – compared with only 50...

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In Memoriam: Howard Paster

Howard Paster, an influential lobbyist, public relations pioneer and member of the GW Graduate School of Political Management’s Council on American Politics, died Aug. 10 at the age of 66.

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Master of the Mace

After 22 years, more than 700 university events and more handshakes, smiles and encouraging words than she could ever tally up, GW’s university marshal, Jill Kasle, is hanging up her academic...

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GW Community Helps Design a Better Gelman Library

A contemporary university library should have extensive space for collaborative learning, lots of spots to plug in laptops, wireless networking and printing capabilities and librarians who...

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Former Colonial Plays for WNBA

By Jesse Hooker

For District native and GW alumna Jessica Adair, B.A. ’09, the hardwood desktop in her D.C. nonprofit office just didn’t compare to life on the basketball hardwood. Now,...

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Last ‘Murrow Boy’ Teaches GW Master Class

By Lindsay Underwood

“I remember having heard that he had strikingly blue eyes, attractive dramatic blue eyes, but I looked in his eyes and I didn’t see the slightest bit of drama. He had...

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A Special Welcome for GW’s Newest Colonials

From Texas and California to China and India, incoming GW students are getting a special send-off before they hit campus this fall. GW’s Office of Alumni Relations has organized more than 30...

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GW Summer Program Trains Future EMTs

By Jennifer Eder

Two EMTs rush to the scene where a 17-year-old boy has collapsed while on a run.

His pulse is racing. His lips are turning blue. He is wheezing and beginning to...

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Professor Investigates Mine Disaster

By Anna Miller

Every day on their drive to work, the employees of Upper Big Branch coal mine in Raleigh County, W.Va. passed a road sign that read, “Accidents are caused. They don’t just...

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In Memoriam: Bernard Katzen

Bernard Katzen, A.A. ’34, M.D. ’38, who, along with his wife Mildred, A.A. ’45, B.A. ’46, late brother Cyrus and sister-in-law Myrtle, has been a longtime supporter of medical research and care at...