Freshmen Give Back on Day of Service
By Julia Parmley
They painted hallways, picked up trash and sorted canned goods. They planted trees, handed out food and visited veterans. On Sept. 11, approximately 1,400 GW freshmen...
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Legendary Russian Poet Recites Work at GW
In his only public appearance during a special Washington, D.C., visit, celebrated Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko read aloud a selection of his works to more than 300 people Oct. 21 at 1957 E...
With the Army now ranking as Facebook’s largest community and with myriad official and unofficial military blogs and twitter handles, the U.S. armed forces have become pioneers in the use of...
By Menachem Wecker
When the Red Sox came back from a four-run deficit to win their April 4 season opener against the New York Yankees, two senior staff members at GW could not have been...
By Julia Parmley
In the summer of 1990, GW Assistant Professor of Organizational Sciences Nils Olsen was a 22-year-old tennis instructor at a...
Student Testimonial on GW's Dead Poets Society
I began taking classes with Dean Grier in the spring semester of 2005, enrolling in the "Fundamental Texts of International Affairs" class. The course included close readings of Metternich,...
By Menachem Wecker
Barbara von Barghahn still remembers receiving the phone call in 1993 informing her that then-Portuguese President Mário Soares would bestow on her one of Portugal’s...
Ruth Helm Osborn, founding director of Developing New Horizons for Women, one of the first continuing education programs for women in the country, which led to the establishment of GW’s Women...
By Danny Freedman
A new initiative aimed at empowering pregnant women and new moms with vital health information sent via text message – the largest-ever program of its kind in the U.S. –...
Medical Students Get a Lesson in Politics
Amid the business-suited politicians at home on Capitol Hill, nearly 200 white coat-clad GW medical students served as a visual reminder of the impact of health care reform on doctors and their...