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Introducing Candace Smith

Candace Smith, an award-winning communicator with 20 years of experience in broadcast, print and crisis messaging, is GW’s new executive director of media relations. Ms. Smith comes to GW from the...

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Helping Those in Need

The University will observe National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week with a series of events designed to educate the campus community, promote community service, and shed light on the...

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Student Voices Round out Innovation Task Force

Six GW students have been named to the University’s new innovation task force launched by President Steven Knapp earlier this fall.

The innovation task force is composed of a steering...

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Honoring Service Excellence

Individual contributions, University-wide collaborations and program achievements were recognized at the 2009 Service Excellence awards ceremony in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom Nov. 5.

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Al Gore Calls for Environmental Solutions

In a Nov. 5 speech at GW, former Vice President Al Gore discussed a range of potential solutions to the climate crisis as outlined in his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis....

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Sustainability on the Rise at GW

By Menachem Wecker

One of the key lessons GW taught Benjamin Balter, B.A. ’09, was the value of sustainability.

“As a student at GW, I learned the importance of recycling,” says...

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Family Care Resources Helps with Childcare, Eldercare Solutions

Have you ever experienced an urgent child care challenge? Have you found that all the summer camps for your children had filled up? Have you struggled with where to begin to find a nursing home...

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Revving the Pistons’ Engine

By Menachem Wecker

John Kuester eagerly anticipates his new job coaching the Detroit Pistons, which he says promises to be a high-energy and exciting team next season, but the former...

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Sen. Mark Warner, B.A. ’77, Has Game

GW alumnus Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) played tough defense and scored a few baskets at a set of annual pickup basketball games on GW’s campus Nov. 25.  Sen. Warner was joined by approximately...

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A Dramatic Dystopia

By Jaime Gacek

If you wonder what the future may bring, picture this: A man-made pandemic, gene-spliced animals that grow human hair, and an eco-conscious religious group that considers Al...