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Student and Faculty Documentary Focuses on Minority Voices Ahead of Election

By Julyssa Lopez
 
No one in the documentary “The Minority Vote” has quite the same background or experience. The six students featured in the film have their own set of...

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Foreign Law Increasingly Factors in the Work of Supreme Court

By Ruth Steinhardt

The U.S. Supreme Court must increasingly engage with foreign law and consider international relations in order for its judgments to be correct and meaningful, Justice...

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Muhammad Yunus Awarded George Washington University President’s Medal

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh who created a model for combating poverty through microlending, Wednesday was awarded the George Washington...

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What the Six Recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award Have to Say about Their Time at GW

The university honored the accomplishments of six of its alumni at the 80th annual Alumni Achievement Awards on Thursday,...

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Kevin Pelphrey Installed as Carbonell Family Professor in Autism

By Kurtis Hiatt

As a budding neuroscientist, Kevin Pelphrey intended to study how the human brain understands other humans—knowledge for knowledge’s sake, as he described it. And...

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Mel Chin Believes Art Should Be Empathetic

By Menachem Wecker

It’s impossible to listen to artist Mel Chin for an extended period without noticing his unlikely blend of traits. He is...

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Nobel Prize Winner Talks Advanced Telescope, Future of Space Exploration

By Kristen Mitchell

Astrophysicist John C. Mather said a new NASA telescope being built will be so powerful it could detect a bumble bee hovering in space at the distance of the moon.

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Conservative Commentator Talks ‘Rollercoaster Election,’ Covering Trump

By Kristen Mitchell

It’s hard to believe there was a time when conservative columnist and frequent CNN commentator S.E. Cupp and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump were on friendly...

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GW Announces Plans for Inaugural Ball

The sixth George Washington University Inaugural Ball will be held at 8 p.m. Jan. 20, 2017, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW, the university announced Thursday.

GW has hosted...

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Top Takeaways from the Final Debate

By Julyssa Lopez
 
The third presidential debate Wednesday drew approximately 71.6 viewers eager to see the final showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. With just...