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An Award-Winning Producer

By Menachem Wecker

For her 16th birthday present, Heather Date, B.A. ’98, toured the local television station WCVB in Needham, Mass., and met her favorite anchor, Natalie Jacobson. “I have...

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Protecting the Past

A new initiative made possible by members of the GW Capitol Archaeological Institute will strengthen the protection of Egyptian antiquities and...

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Economic Engines

Universities in the District are a major source of local jobs and income and the area’s education sector continues to be among the most robust, according to a recent study commissioned by the...

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DNA Detective

Ten years ago, Daniele Podini was working in a crime lab in his native Italy, collecting and analyzing DNA evidence in homicides, robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults.

Now in the...

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Who Needs Newspapers?

May 31, 2011

By Menachem Wecker

If Paul Steinle, former president of United Press International, was writing a story about journalism’s future, he would avoid the title, “...

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Paying It Forward

By Laura Donnelly-Smith

Quardricos Bernard Driskell remembers clearly the surprise he felt when he learned, as a Morehouse College junior in 2003, that he had been selected as an Oprah...

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A New Adventure

In 1986, Professor of Mathematics Daniel Ullman, along with other GW faculty members, was on campus taking a Myers-Briggs personality test.

The results showed a majority of the group had...

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Scholarship in Spanish

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...

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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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Introducing The Avenue

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...