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GW Honors Parkland Shooting Victims

The GW community gathered at a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting.

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GW Researchers Awarded More than $4 Million for Interdisciplinary Projects

By Kristen Mitchell

Five teams of George Washington University researchers have received more than $4 million in grant funding to pursue innovative research projects in fields across...

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GW Tops List of Peace Corps Volunteer Producers

George Washington University holds the No. 1 spot as a producer of Peace Corps volunteers among medium-sized schools on the program’s...

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Human Brain Size Evolved Gradually Over 3 Million Years

Modern humans have brains that are more than three times larger than our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos. An analysis of 94 hominin fossils published this week shows that average...

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Alumna Elana Meyers Taylor Wins Silver Medal

George Washington University alumna Elana Meyers Taylor claimed an Olympic women's bobsled silver medal...

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Confucius Institute 2018 Celebration of the Lunar New Year

Attendees of the GW 2018 Lunar New Year Celebration enjoyed a performance of a traditional Chinese dance.

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GW Students Enjoy Warm Weather

Many students took their activities outside to enjoy the unseasonably warm weather

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In Memoriam: Peggy Cooper Cafritz

Peggy Cooper Cafritz, B.A. ’68, J.D. ’71, an arts and education advocate whose time as a student at the George Washington University was steeped in campus activism, died Sunday at a hospital in...

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The Lost Native American Context of George Washington

By Ruth Steinhardt

As a student of American history at the University of Leeds in England, Colin Calloway was struck by a lacuna in the way Americans wrote about their own country.

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Olympic Class Shares Their PyeongChang Experiences

The George Washington University graduate students collecting data in the PyeongChang Olympics in South Korea are...