VolunteerMatch Tracks Service Hours
It’s only been two months since First Lady Michelle Obama announced her service challenge to the GW community—in exchange for 100,000 hours of service, she will speak at GW’s 2010 Commencement —...
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Gelman Library Unveils New Middle East Rare Book Collection
Among the more than 700 volumes in Gelman Library's new Middle East rare book collection are sacred and classical texts dating as far back as the 17th century, a famous translation of the classic...
Jeanette A. Michael, J.D. ’75, GW Board of Trustees member and former executive director of D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board, died on Nov. 28.
Ms. Michael served as D.C....
In Memoriam: Barry Berman
By William Parke, chair of GW’s Department of Physics
GW professor Barry Berman, after a year-long and heroic struggle, died on Monday...
By Menachem Wecker
The next fruit cocktail you drink, if it’s made by GW alumnus John Gallagher, B.A. ’87, could literally help...
Anyone can learn to bowl, says Adam Murphy, B.A. ’05, manager of the Hippodrome. He should know—not only does he oversee the Hippodrome’s operations, but he also teaches a popular bowling class....
According to the GW and Foggy Bottom Historical Encyclopedia, the University’s music program began in the...
By Jennifer Price
It took the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team 30 hours to free a 29-year-old woman trapped under concrete slabs inside a collapsed building at the University of...
By Julia Parmley and Menachem Wecker
Try crossing the street at the corner of Eye and 24th on a Wednesday afternoon, and you may have to look both ways to avoid farmers.
Every...
By Menachem Wecker
Former First Lady Laura Bush’s first foray into politics was a decided failure. After moving to Washington in the summer of 1969 with a friend from Southern Methodist...