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Bob Smith and Jim Chung

Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Celebrates Impact and Looks to the Future

Bob Smith will take the reins from Jim Chung, who built OIE into a globally recognized program during his 14-year tenure as leader.

Eli Kintisch

Eli Kintisch Announced as New Ted Turner Professor of Environmental Media

The science journalist and video producer will teach courses that focus on using innovative storytelling to address the climate crisis. 

19th century painting of several society women in period dress in a parlor

Hair-Raising History: How Coifs and Cuts Styled an Era

In her new book, art historian Elizabeth L. Block, BA ’94, explains how hair helped fashion the post-Civil War nation.

Ross Hall courtyard

SMHS MD Program Receives Full, 8-Year Accreditation

The recognition LCME comes after a 20-month self study that included 125 faculty, students and staff.

Erin Athey (left) with a community member and team member in one of the C3 Cares clinics. (Courtesy Erin Athey)

D.C. Public Housing Units Become Health Care Hubs

GW School of Nursing adjunct professor Erin Athey’s company has established four clinics offering convenient care access in wards 6, 7 and 8.

Professor Hermann J. Helgert and his wife, Janet

Engineering Professor Hermann J. Helgert Creates $3 Million Fellowship Fund

Merit-Based Awards Will Support Doctoral Students in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

“The Known World" by Edward P. Jones

CCAS Professor Has Two Books Named as NYT’s Best Books of 21st Century

Award-winning author Edward P. Jones has written stories that depicted life in the Antebellum South and the lives of working-class African Americans in Washington, D.C.

Cherry Blossoms campus

GW Student Awarded Fogarty-Fulbright Public Health Award

Meredith Wells received a grant and will conduct research in Peru on a prevalent eye disease.

Natasha Dupee

Alumna Natasha Dupee Won Leadership Award

The award honors Barbra Jordan’s legacy of championing voting rights, the causes of the poor, the disadvantaged and people of color.

Tempietto at sunset

Students Won International Competition

The students proposed an idea to support the transition of seaweed farming businesses into bioplastic manufacturers.