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Academic Blogging

By Menachem Wecker

Andrew Sullivan’s blog, recently of Newsweek Daily Beast, draws an estimated 1.2 million unique viewers a month....

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Investing in Academics

By Jamie L. Freedman

After months of university-wide discussion and analysis, Provost Steven Lerman announced that the funds recently created by implementing the first set of...

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Becoming Resilient

If another major terrorist attack or a natural disaster hit U.S. soil, how quickly could the American public recover?

Daniel Kaniewski, assistant vice president and deputy director of GW’s...

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The Spirit of Compassion

Looking out from the lectern at Western Presbyterian Church, at his fellow graduates in the pews, Noble Freeman admitted he was a little jealous to see so many smiling families. Mr. Freeman...

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A Foot in the Door

By Laura Donnelly-Smith

Recent GW graduate Ashley Starks knew the process of finding her first post-college job wouldn’t be easy. She knew there would be challenges and that she would face...

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A Special Graduation

Among the 7,000 Colonials who graduated during GW’s Commencement weekend were 14 high school students.

The students are the first cohort of the GW Early College Program, a partnership with...

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Thriving After Cancer

By Jennifer Eder

Anne Willis was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma – a malignant bone tumor that primarily affects children and adolescents – when she was 15.

After three surgeries...

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The Future of Medicine and Health at GW

Beginning July 1, the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the School of Public Health and Health Services and the School of Nursing will operate as three separate entities.

Under the...

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A Colonial Commencement

With the U.S. Capitol as a backdrop, speakers at GW’s Commencement ceremony this morning told graduates to continue their dedication to making the world a better place, to advocate for those in...

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Men's Tennis Falls to Duke

GW men’s tennis fell to 12th-ranked Duke University Friday in Durham, N.C., in the team’s first-ever NCAA Division I...