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Road Work Ahead

By Danny Freedman

Drowsy drivers cause tens of thousands of crashes each year. Now a GW professor is helping to take the fight into the driver’s seat.

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Early Morning Tweets and Treats

By Menachem Wecker

In GW’s end-of-the-semester tradition Midnight Breakfast, faculty and staff help alleviate student stress by serving breakfast one night during finals from 10:30 p.m....

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A New Republican Party

By Menachem Wecker

In the course of a 30-minute talk and an hour question-and-answer period, the self-declared new face of the Republican Party discussed health care, Afghanistan, gay...

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GW Professor Looks Back on Foreign Service Career

GW adjunct professor of international affairs David H. Shinn has had his car attacked by elephants in Tanzania, traveled to nearly every square mile of Ethiopia, and had the grim task of sorting...

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Setting a New Standard

By Menachem Wecker

Anita Davidson’s team is one of the last standing in an international competition created to inspire a new generation of super fuel-efficient vehicles. Called the...

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Get to Know Shelly Heller

She quickly charted an alternative career path—as a computer scientist in what was then a fledgling field, earning advanced degrees and a place in GW’s academic leadership along the way.

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A Political Web

By Menachem Wecker

If conferences won awards for best titled session the Graduate School of Political Management’s ...

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Hitting the Links

By Julia Parmley

If you think golf is just a game of leisure, try competing against approximately 70 Division I players while walking and carrying clubs over five miles of sand bunkers,...

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A Job Well Done

Over the last seven months, more than 3,800 GW students, faculty, staff and members of the Board of Trustees have participated in community service projects throughout the Washington, D.C., area...

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Best in Showcase

There’s a household in Beijing that’s in for some excitement.

TaiSen Zhuang, who’s pursuing a Ph.D. in micropropulsion, says he’ll be planning a visit to his hometown—to “give my mom and...