Don’t Feed the Plant that Bites You
The tale of a bloodthirsty plant—and the nerdy flower shop employee who discovers and stakes his claim to happiness on it—is center stage in a joint production by GW’s Department of Theatre and...
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By Menachem Wecker
Graduate student Charlotte Brock grew up speaking French and English at home and quickly learned Portuguese and Spanish. Living in Jamaica, South Korea, the Cape Verde...
By Jamie L. Freedman
GW’s Innovation Task Force is moving into full swing, spearheaded by a 13-member steering committee, chaired by Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Jeffrey...
By Menachem Wecker
Storied jazz musician Dave Brubeck has been earning a lot of presidential praise lately.
“You can’t understand America without understanding jazz. And you can’t...
Health Care Sciences Professor Recognized for Innovative Technology Use
Assistant Professor of Health Care Sciences Ellen Costello received a 2009 Bender Teaching Award for her novel use of technology in her instruction, including digitized breathing sounds and music...
By Rachel Muir
The tale of an old man’s death based on a stanza in Dante’s Inferno hardly seems the stuff of comedy, but as reimagined in Puccini’s one-act opera it becomes farce with greedy...
Colonials Host President Obama
With President Barack Obama and the first family in attendance, the GW men's basketball team staged a furious last-minute rally before falling short, 64-57, to visiting Oregon State Nov. 28 at GW'...
GW Athlete Earns All-American Status
By Rachel Muir
Eight hundred meters into the championship race in Terre Haute, Ind., on Nov. 23, senior Megan Hogan was tripped and passed by 45 runners. But Ms. Hogan, the Atlantic 10...
Breaking Ground in Cardiothoracic Research
By Jamie L. Freedman
It’s not every day that a teenager is listed as an author on a cardiothoracic research paper produced by the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
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Making GW ‘One of the Best Places to Work’
Louis Lemieux took over the reins of GW’s human resources operation on Nov. 2, and it’s been a busy three weeks. He’s been working up to 14 hours a day, meeting with senior staff, deans and “...