The piles of pillows and comforters, clothing, small appliances and books lining the lobby of GW’s South Hall on student move-out days may look like trash. But to Tawanna Lee, they’re evidence of...
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By Jennifer Eder
About one in four U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight or obese.
Those rates, which are even higher for low-income, African-American and Hispanic children, are...
By Menachem Wecker
A fifth-grade teacher in the Clovis Unified School District in Fresno, Calif., by day, Derek Walter started writing...
By Menachem Wecker
Andrew Sullivan’s blog, recently of Newsweek Daily Beast, draws an estimated 1.2 million unique viewers a month....
By Jamie L. Freedman
After months of university-wide discussion and analysis, Provost Steven Lerman announced that the funds recently created by implementing the first set of...
If another major terrorist attack or a natural disaster hit U.S. soil, how quickly could the American public recover?
Daniel Kaniewski, assistant vice president and deputy director of GW’s...
Looking out from the lectern at Western Presbyterian Church, at his fellow graduates in the pews, Noble Freeman admitted he was a little jealous to see so many smiling families. Mr. Freeman...
By Laura Donnelly-Smith
Recent GW graduate Ashley Starks knew the process of finding her first post-college job wouldn’t be easy. She knew there would be challenges and that she would face...
Among the 7,000 Colonials who graduated during GW’s Commencement weekend were 14 high school students.
The students are the first cohort of the GW Early College Program, a partnership with...
By Jennifer Eder
Anne Willis was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma – a malignant bone tumor that primarily affects children and adolescents – when she was 15.
After three surgeries...