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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Multimillion-Dollar Gift Funds Greenhouse, Biology Scholarships
Ten undergraduate and 16 graduate students from GW’s Department of Biology have received extra financial support this summer thanks to a generous gift from an alumnus.
A private foundation...
Grad Makes Museums More Accessible
By Laura Donnelly-Smith
When GW alumna Emily Perreault, M.Ed.’10, learned in mid-July that she had received the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Kress Interpretive Fellowship, she had to take...
Three Solar Thermal Systems In Place at GW
Three GW residence halls will get about two-thirds of their hot water from the sun's heat this year, thanks to new solar thermal systems.
The systems, which collectively are the sixth...