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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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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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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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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...

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Rewarding Science Research

Half a million dollars in research funding changed hands at the Jack Morton Auditorium yesterday, and the oldest of the awardees were high school seniors.

“You are our future,” GW...

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A Reverend’s Return

By Danny Freedman

He was one of GW’s founding fathers, the man who symbolically leased the school its original plot of land for the price of one peppercorn—annually. Now his picture hangs...

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Moving the Medical Center Forward

Dec. 6, 2010

In a packed town hall meeting in GW’s Ross Hall on Friday, President Steven Knapp and Provost Steven Lerman spoke about phases one and two of the multiphase Medical Center...