Uncovering an Ancient Civilization
A fragment of a painting more than 3,500 years old shows a white arc on a bright blue background. It might be a bird, a griffin, a ship or something else entirely. And there are many more...
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Feb. 22 marks the 150th anniversary of the George Washington statue in Washington Circle.
The equestrian statue of George Washington in Foggy Bottom’s...
By Menachem Wecker
The KABIS III automatic book digitizer looks like it could launch something back to the future if it hit 88 mph on the speedometer. But however unusual the unit appears...
By day Julie Ost, M.P.H. ’09, is the executive coordinator for the GW Cancer Institute. But at least one night a month she volunteers to work an overnight shift for local nonprofit HIPS, venturing...
Over the last seven months, more than 3,800 GW students, faculty, staff and members of the Board of Trustees have participated in community service projects throughout the Washington, D.C., area...
There’s a household in Beijing that’s in for some excitement.
TaiSen Zhuang, who’s pursuing a Ph.D. in micropropulsion, says he’ll be planning a visit to his hometown—to “give my mom and...
By Julia Parmley
If you think golf is just a game of leisure, try competing against approximately 70 Division I players while walking and carrying clubs over five miles of sand bunkers,...
By Menachem Wecker
If Cynthia Dowd has anything to say about it, tuberculosis may have to learn a lesson from the Borg of Star Trek fame: “Resistance is futile.”
Though TB is...
Searching for Autism's Treatable Roots
By Danny Freedman
Down a side hallway and in a cluttered office tucked away inside a lab, Valerie Hu is attempting to crack one of biology’s most vexing riddles: her son.
Matthew,...
Saying Goodbye to Dean Susan Phillips
By Jennifer Price
When a search committee from GW’s School of Business first approached Susan Phillips in 1998, she saw a challenge.
“While it was a good business school, it...