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GW Students Travel to Ecuador to Ask, ‘Is There a Dark Side to Chocolate?’

By Brittney Dunkins

Secondhand research of the cocoa industry grew stale last August for George Washington University students Maddison...

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Do Open Records Laws Harm the Scientific Process?

By Lauren Ingeno

Researchers at a number of state universities have found themselves in a battle between academic...

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Elliott School Recognized in Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 10 List

Foreign Policy Magazine published its list of best international relations schools last week, naming the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in the top 10 for...

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Labor History Expert Installed in Teamsters Professorship

By James Irwin

Eric Arnesen was in graduate school at Yale in 1981, enrolled in a course taught by...

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Comcast’s NBC Turns to Holt as Williams’s Credibility Is Doubted

Frank Sesno, director of the School of Media and Public Affairs, assesses the next steps in the ongoing investigation of Brian Williams’...

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Five GW Resources to Help Students Find Summer Internships

By Brittney Dunkins

For George Washington University students preparing for a...

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GW Students Join Meet the Press Host Chuck Todd for Live Twitter Q & A

By Brittney Dunkins

George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management students added a social media boost to NBC’s “Meet...

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SMPA Hosts ‘The Italian Americans’ Screening with Nancy Pelosi

Southern Italian immigrants founded the town of Roseto, Pa., more than 130 years ago. The town attracted attention not just because it remained purely Italian for four generations, but also...

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Writer Nick Kotz Explores His Family Legend

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nick Kotz’s work covered some of the biggest events of the 20th century, from defense spending to the modern civil rights movement. There was only one frontier...

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This Date in History: The Founding of Columbian College

On Feb. 9, 1821, after two years of petitioning from Baptist ministers Luther Rice, Obadiah B. Brown, Spencer H. Cone and Enoch Reynolds, President James Monroe signed an Act of Congress to create...