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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...

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Expanding Study Abroad

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...

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Sustainable Send-Off

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...

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Examining Alternative Energy

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...

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Coaching Across Borders

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...

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Combating Childhood Obesity

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...

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App Planet

By Menachem Wecker

A fifth-grade teacher in the Clovis Unified School District in Fresno, Calif., by day, Derek Walter started writing...

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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...