Passion for Teaching Earns Business School Professor a 2009 Bender Award
Assistant Professor of Management Tjai Nielsen’s “personal attention to students in and outside the classroom” secured him a 2009 Bender Teaching Award,...
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Bringing Soccer to Ugandan Women
By Menachem Wecker
It took climbing a mountain for Anna Phillips to realize her calling: empowering women and promoting the role of gender in democracy.
On a seven-day “father-...
Keeping 19,500 Students Entertained: A Look at GW’s Program Board
By Julia Parmley
Cruises, concerts and film series — not to mention big name artists Kanye West, Ben Folds and Jason Mraz — have captivated GW students. And for almost 40 years, the...
GW Awaits H1N1, Seasonal Flu Vaccines
The George Washington University Student Health Service has registered with the D.C. Department of Health to be a center of mass distribution of the H1N1 vaccine for the GW community. The Federal...
As executive director of GW Hillel, which promotes religious pluralism on campus, Robert Fishman is thrilled to employ Federal Work Study students at the Gewirz Center at 23rd and H streets....
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,...
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...
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...
By Menachem Wecker
If Cynthia Dowd has anything to say about it, tuberculosis may have to learn a lesson from the Borg of Star Trek fame: “Resistance is futile.”
Though TB is...
Searching for Autism's Treatable Roots
By Danny Freedman
Down a side hallway and in a cluttered office tucked away inside a lab, Valerie Hu is attempting to crack one of biology’s most vexing riddles: her son.
Matthew,...