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A Green Good-Bye

By Menachem Wecker

The George Washington University is well worth its weight in conservation. In Green Move Out 2010, the most successful one to date, GW collected 79,994 pounds of...

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GW Professor Looks Back on Foreign Service Career

GW adjunct professor of international affairs David H. Shinn has had his car attacked by elephants in Tanzania, traveled to nearly every square mile of Ethiopia, and had the grim task of sorting...

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Setting a New Standard

By Menachem Wecker

Anita Davidson’s team is one of the last standing in an international competition created to inspire a new generation of super fuel-efficient vehicles. Called the...

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Get to Know Shelly Heller

She quickly charted an alternative career path—as a computer scientist in what was then a fledgling field, earning advanced degrees and a place in GW’s academic leadership along the way.

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A Political Web

By Menachem Wecker

If conferences won awards for best titled session the Graduate School of Political Management’s ...

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Predicting the Future

With less than a month to go until the year 2010, some of the world’s top thinkers, analysts and policymakers gathered at GW for a two-day conference on trends, issues and ideas affecting the...

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A Blood-Sucking Economy

By Menachem Wecker

When Elizabeth Davis, director of GW’s organizational sciences...

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A GW Gentleman’s Game

By Julia Parmley

At GW, students from Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Jamaica, Pakistan and India share a common bond: the 400-year-old British sport cricket.

“We get together to...

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Legendary Journalist Helen Thomas Addresses GW Students

By Ryan Waye, WRGW News

White House press corps stalwart Helen Thomas drew on her nearly 70-year career to talk presidents and politics with GW students at 1957 E Street in a Nov. 17 event...

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Horsing Around

For many GW student organizations, meetings require just a few chairs and a table. But for one, it necessitates a barn, 40 acres, a 40-minute car ride—and horses.

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