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Award-Winning Author to Join GW

By Jennifer Price

Beginning in January, GW students will be able to take creative writing classes from a Pultizer Prize-winning author.

A Washington native, Edward P. Jones...

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Lessons from a Tragedy

By Jennifer Price

An explosion in a West Virginia coal mine that killed at least 25 miners Monday has thrust the issue of mine safety into the spotlight.

Celeste Monforton,...

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Reinventing the Tools of Politics

By Menachem Wecker

On Saturdays when his friends at large state schools were cheering on their football teams, Brian Donahue, B.A. ’99,...

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Offsetting Radicalism with Philosophy

By Menachem Wecker

Reading the Muslim philosophers of the Golden Age, roughly the eighth to 13th centuries C.E., can help both Muslims and non-Muslims see beyond the stereotypes of Islam as...

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GW Alumna Prepares for Foreign Service on Fulbright

By Julia Parmley

When she was a junior in high school, Thao-Anh Tran, B.A. ’09, traveled to Beijing through a cultural exchange program funded by the U.S. State Department. Though Ms. Tran...

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Representing the Chief

By Jennifer Price

Judith Corley took an unorthodox approach to becoming the president’s attorney.

She majored in French language and literature at the University of Washington and...

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Transforming the Charles E. Smith Center

The third phase of the Charles E. Smith Center renovation will begin this month and will dramatically transform the exterior of the building.

The majority of the building’s exterior will...

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Students Count Too

The U.S. Census Bureau is urging students to be counted on campus as part of Census 2010. GW students who spend most of the year as residents of the District but do not submit D.C. census forms...

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Meeting the Challenge

By Jennifer Price

The George Washington University has completed 100,000 hours of community service, securing first lady Michelle Obama as its Commencement speaker.

“...

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President Knapp Announces Members of Council on Diversity and Inclusion

George Washington University President Steven Knapp has announced the 16 members of the President’s Council on Diversity and Inclusion, a key component of an initiative  ...