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Keeping Safe

Last week’s deadly blaze in Brazil is a grim reminder of the hazards of fire, especially in overcrowded, limited access spaces. Of the 235 killed in Brazil, more than 100 were college students....

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Keeper of History

A major university like George Washington generates a huge amount of material worth saving—everything from presidential correspondence to yearbook pages to websites. Vetting, classifying and...

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#GWInaugural Challenge Winners Announced

For George Washington student Bryce Bender, winning the #GWInaugural Challenge—a contest that encouraged participants to...

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Mat Kearney to Perform at Lisner Thursday

Mat Kearney wasn’t necessarily looking to get into the music business, but it found him.

Now, more than a decade later, he’s three albums deep; has toured with John Mayer, Sheryl Crow and...

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Anderson Cooper Hosts Gun-Control Town Hall at GW

By Kurtis Hiatt

The gun-control debate made its way to the George Washington University on Thursday, as Anderson Cooper moderated a discussion at the Jack Morton Auditorium, in which...

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Exploring Bipartisan Solutions to the Economic Crisis

By Jay Conley

With America’s debt crisis in limbo and a government shutdown known as sequestration looming, what will it take to get America’s...

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Kalb Report Hosts Presidential Debate Moderators

Debates matter.

That was the consensus on Monday night when three of the 2012 presidential debate moderators joined Marvin Kalb at the National Press Club for a discussion about the contests...

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From Lincoln to King to Obama

In a discussion that ranged from the Civil War to the civil rights movement, from President Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address in March 1865 to President Barack Obama’s second inaugural...

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Anderson Cooper to Host Town Hall Thursday at GW

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will host a discussion on gun control with a panel of today’s leading voices on the issue from the George Washington University’s Jack Morton Auditorium on Thursday....

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SMHS Dean Jeffrey S. Akman Lays Out Priorities

Jeffrey S. Akman, the newly appointed vice president for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, gave the George Washington University’s SMHS community a glimpse on...