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Road Work Ahead

By Danny Freedman

Drowsy drivers cause tens of thousands of crashes each year. Now a GW professor is helping to take the fight into the driver’s seat.

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Early Morning Tweets and Treats

By Menachem Wecker

In GW’s end-of-the-semester tradition Midnight Breakfast, faculty and staff help alleviate student stress by serving breakfast one night during finals from 10:30 p.m....

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A New Republican Party

By Menachem Wecker

In the course of a 30-minute talk and an hour question-and-answer period, the self-declared new face of the Republican Party discussed health care, Afghanistan, gay...

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Hitting the Links

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,...

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A Job Well Done

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...

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Best in Showcase

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...

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Translational Research

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...

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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,...

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Saying Goodbye to Dean Susan Phillips

By Jennifer Price

When a search committee from GW’s School of Business first approached Susan Phillips in 1998, she saw a challenge.

“While it was a good business school, it...

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Eye Opening

By Jennifer Price

GW freshman Andrew Pangilinan has always loved to travel.

A first generation American, Mr. Pangilinan has gone on safaris in Kenya and Tanzania, climbed Mt....