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Examining Alternative Energy

Leslie Berlowitz, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, began her introductory remarks to the academy’s Workshop on Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future, held at GW’s...

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Combating Childhood Obesity

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...

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App Planet

By Menachem Wecker

A fifth-grade teacher in the Clovis Unified School District in Fresno, Calif., by day, Derek Walter...

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Academic Blogging

By Menachem Wecker

Andrew Sullivan’s blog, recently of Newsweek Daily Beast, draws an estimated 1.2 million unique viewers...

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Becoming Resilient

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...

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The Spirit of Compassion

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...

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A Foot in the Door

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...

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A Special Graduation

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...

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Thriving After Cancer

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.

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The Future of Medicine and Health at GW

Beginning July 1, the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the School of Public Health and Health Services and the School of Nursing will operate as three separate entities.

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