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...
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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 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...