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A Basketball Star Returns

After 11 years, former Colonial Yegor Mescheriakov comes back to finish his GW degree.

By Brad Bower

He first arrived in Washington during the fall of 1995 with a 10-word...

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Cutting a Rug Country Style

GW students and local senior citizens donned cowboy hats, boots and jeans for this year’s country-western-themed Senior Prom held Sunday afternoon in the Charles E. Smith Center.

An annual...

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A Winning Idea

Their idea is worth $25,000.

MBA student Anthony Shop, alumnus David Raffel, B.A.’76, Daniel Zaslavsky and Thomas Sanchez beat out a record 112 teams to win the...

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A Fellowship Set in Stone

By Menachem Wecker

When Jeffrey Cohen first learned in the middle of March that he had won a Guggenheim fellowship, he had just come home...

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Beyond the Bottom Line

Saturday night 15 students from the School of Business will take the stage to perform everything from Bach to the Beatles—all to raise money for a nonprofit organization that mentors D.C. high...

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Making it in Music

By Christine Cole

To succeed in the music industry, Neil Portnow, B.A. ’71, says individuals need to be relentless, persistent, patient, unwavering and self-motivated.

“If at the...

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Reducing Your Water Footprint

Drinking tap water. Reporting leaky faucets. Taking shorter showers.

These are just some of the ways GW students, faculty and staff can reduce their water usage during this month’s GWater...

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Making it in Music

To succeed in the music industry, Neil Portnow, B.A. ’71, says individuals need to be relentless, persistent, patient, unwavering and self-motivated.

“If at the end of the day this is what...

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Changing Planet

“Let’s see. We’ve got global warming, glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising and species driven to extinction. We have unprecedented storms happening. Send in the comedian.”

So began...

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A Tragic Loss

An undergraduate student died yesterday in the City Hall residence hall.  There is no indication that the death was the result of a criminal act.

“On behalf of the entire university...