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Taking the Stage

By Jennifer Price

GW senior Zoe Petkanas will speak at Commencement on the National Mall in front of 25,000 people, before first lady Michelle Obama takes the stage.

No...

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Food for Thought

By Menachem Wecker

As the newly appointed director of the Judaic Studies program at GW, Jenna Weissman Joselit has some fresh ideas about the...

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Guiding Light

By Danny Freedman

Chemical structure analysis is a bit like solving a jigsaw puzzle—a really tiny one with a heap of microscopic pieces. But a new technique developed at GW may make it...

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Celebrating Women’s Leadership

By Jamie L. Freedman

Four generations of women leaders, including renowned White House journalist Helen Thomas, gathered on the Mount Vernon Campus April 9 for the 10th annual Women’s...

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A Prized Faculty

Professors Bruce Dickson, John Lachin and Honey Nashman are the winners of the 2010 Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Teaching, Scholarship and Service Prizes respectively.

“GW has a strong...

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Defusing the Nuclear Threat

With 47 heads of states in attendance, this week’s unprecedented summit in Washington is drawing the world’s attention to the role of international cooperation in preventing nuclear proliferation...

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Award-Winning Author to Join GW

By Jennifer Price

Beginning in January, GW students will be able to take creative writing classes from a Pultizer Prize-winning author.

A Washington native, Edward P. Jones...

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Gold-Certified Living

The state-of-the-art design and construction of South Hall, The George Washington University’s newest residence hall, has earned it a special accolade as the first university building in the...

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Reinventing the Tools of Politics

By Menachem Wecker

On Saturdays when his friends at large state schools were cheering on their football teams, Brian Donahue, B.A. ’99,...

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Offsetting Radicalism with Philosophy

By Menachem Wecker

Reading the Muslim philosophers of the Golden Age, roughly the eighth to 13th centuries C.E., can help both Muslims and non-Muslims see beyond the stereotypes of Islam as...