With less than a month to go until the year 2010, some of the world’s top thinkers, analysts and policymakers gathered at GW for a two-day conference on trends, issues and ideas affecting the...
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By Julia Parmley
At GW, students from Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Jamaica, Pakistan and India share a common bond: the 400-year-old British sport cricket.
“We get together to...
Probing the Notorious Scottsboro Trial
By Rachel Muir
The trial name itself became synonymous with injustice.
In 1931, on the basis of flimsy and conflicting evidence, eight young black men were sentenced to death by an...
Professor Wins Bender Award for Offering ‘Tremendous Insight’ in Health Law and Policy
One of five Bender Teaching Awards this year went to Associate Professor of Health Policy Joel Teitelbaum for his “natural ability to teach and engage students in and outside of the classroom.”...
By Menachem Wecker
As a student at the University of Sussex — the first British university to offer a program in American studies — Andrew Stone had the opportunity to study abroad at a...
Paying It Back with Community Service
By Carrie Madren
Alexandria, Va., resident Brandon Grant Wolfe is attending GW tuition free. In return, he has committed to giving back to the city he lives and studies in through...
When it comes to giving back to George Washington University, Mitch Blaser believes in what he calls the “three Ws”: work, wisdom and wealth.
As chair of GW’s School of Business Board of...
Uncovering an Ancient Civilization
A fragment of a painting more than 3,500 years old shows a white arc on a bright blue background. It might be a bird, a griffin, a ship or something else entirely. And there are many more...