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Innovation Update

By Jamie L. Freedman

In a briefing before the GW Faculty Senate on Friday, Innovation Task Force Steering Committee co-chairmen David Lawlor and Jeffrey Lenn reported that $17.5 million in...

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Astrobiology on a Dime (… Relatively)

By Danny Freedman

Riding a blast of fire, a rocket carrying experiments for a GW researcher shot into space last month, streaking across the Alaska sky until it finally disappeared into...

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Serving Minority Populations

The George Washington University hosted the first ever data conference Friday to evaluate the access of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders to federal programs and services....

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Making America Competitive

The U.S. government needs to remove obstacles preventing immigrants with doctorates from living and working in the country, and universities and manufacturers should better work together to ensure...

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GW’s Egypt Connection

When the Elliott School of International Affairs announced last September that it was launching an exchange program with American University in Cairo (AUC), it was the latest installment in a...

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GW Athletes Educate Local Students on HIV/AIDS Prevention

On Dec. 1, approximately 90 students, friends and family members gathered in the Colonials Athletic Club at the GW’s Charles E. Smith Center for a special graduation. Forty D.C. public elementary...

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Expanding Diversity

The President’s Council on Diversity & Inclusion will hold two public forums in January to gather ideas about ways GW can improve and promote diversity on campus.

The first forum will...

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Expert Economist to Join GW

Barry R. Chiswick, a renowned economist who served on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under Gerald Ford, will become the new chair of GW’s Department of Economics in January.

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Beating the Blues

With the pressure to give gifts, decorate and entertain, the “most wonderful time of the year” doesn’t live up to its billing for many people. In fact, the holiday season, from Thanksgiving to New...

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Colonial Caregivers

Seventeen nurses recently made GW history by becoming the first undergraduate class to graduate from the university’s School of Nursing.

The school honored its newest graduates Monday...