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Record Financial Aid

The university has increased financial aid budgeted for undergraduate students this academic year from $148 million to $150 million due to a growth in both aid applications and students qualifying...

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Popular Novelist at Lisner

By Menachem Wecker

An award-winning author’s ability to draw crowds is good news for the GW community.

New Yorker contributor and National Book Award winner...

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A Half Century of Presidential Debates

By Menachem Wecker

Last night’s Kalb Report began with a video clip of the 1960 presidential debate—the first ever televised—which drew 70 million...

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Journalist of Record

By Anne Ward

In “one of the most bizarre and overlooked chapters of American political history,” aides to President Richard Nixon met at the Hay-Adams, a hotel across from the White House...

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An Award for Alexandria

GW gives fellowship to an art therapy graduate student.

The George Washington University awarded its second Alexandria Partnership Fellowship to an art therapy student who’s committed to...

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The State of Science

By Danny Freedman

Research chiefs from some of the nation’s top universities gathered Friday with journalists for a far-reaching forum on the role of research universities, the changing...

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The Art of Healing

Professor Elizabeth Warson helps Native people deal with cancer survivorship through art.

In 1992, Assistant Professor of Art Therapy Elizabeth Warson learned she had cervical cancer....

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Fighting the Flu

The university will provide seasonal influenza vaccinations for students, faculty and staff in October and November.

“Flu can be a serious disease and getting immunized is the best step in...

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Academic Tracking

A new degree audit system will allow students—with just a few clicks— to review, monitor and track their degree requirements. The system, DegreeWorks, is being implemented by the Office of the...

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From Null to Infinity

By Menachem Wecker

About 35 years ago, John Safer completed a propeller-shaped sculpture he had carved from a piece of gray tinted polymethyl-methacrylate (also called Plexiglas or Lucite...