Honoring the District’s Top Employees
The six employees received the 2011 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Award, which honors individuals whose contributions have been exceptional and whose commitment and professionalism demonstrate the...
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By Laura Donnelly-Smith
Gelsomina Que Candia, chief of institutional evaluation at the University of Yucatan in Mexico and a consultant to the governor of Yucatan, was pleasantly surprised...
By Jamie L. Freedman
Several new study abroad offerings are in the works at GW, as the Innovation Task Force strives to take the university’s thriving study abroad enterprise to the next...
Protecting Food from Farm to Fork
By Anna Miller
Michael R. Taylor, deputy commissioner for foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), doesn’t usually like to overuse words or employ clichés.
But during...
May 23, 2011
After more than three years of construction, Square 54 is getting a new name.
The mixed-use complex nearing completion at 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue will be called...
The piles of pillows and comforters, clothing, small appliances and books lining the lobby of GW’s South Hall on student move-out days may look like trash. But to Tawanna Lee, they’re evidence of...
Leslie Berlowitz, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, began her introductory remarks to the academy’s Workshop on Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future, held at GW’s...
By Julia Parmley
The soccer field on GW’s Mount Vernon Campus serves as home ground for GW men and women’s soccer teams.
But on May 16, it also served as a classroom for soccer...
By Jennifer Eder
About one in four U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight or obese.
Those rates, which are even higher for low-income, African-American and Hispanic children, are...
By Menachem Wecker
A fifth-grade teacher in the Clovis Unified School District in Fresno, Calif., by day, Derek Walter started writing...