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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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Lessons from a Tragedy

By Jennifer Price

An explosion in a West Virginia coal mine that killed at least 25 miners Monday has thrust the issue of mine safety into the spotlight.

Celeste Monforton,...

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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...

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GW Alumna Prepares for Foreign Service on Fulbright

By Julia Parmley

When she was a junior in high school, Thao-Anh Tran, B.A. ’09, traveled to Beijing through a cultural exchange program funded by the U.S. State Department. Though Ms. Tran...

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Representing the Chief

By Jennifer Price

Judith Corley took an unorthodox approach to becoming the president’s attorney.

She majored in French language and literature at the University of Washington and...

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Transforming the Charles E. Smith Center

The third phase of the Charles E. Smith Center renovation will begin this month and will dramatically transform the exterior of the building.

The majority of the building’s exterior will...

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Students Count Too

The U.S. Census Bureau is urging students to be counted on campus as part of Census 2010. GW students who spend most of the year as residents of the District but do not submit D.C. census forms...