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...
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By day, Donald R. Lehman serves as executive vice president for academic affairs. By night, he bowls—or at least his caricature does.
On May 7, Dr. Lehman was inducted into GW’s Wall of...
With Commencement only a week away, the question of what’s next is on the mind of many soon-to-be graduates. Executive Director of the GW Career Center...
By Menachem Wecker
The George Washington University is well worth its weight in conservation. In Green Move Out 2010, the most successful one to date, GW collected 79,994 pounds of...
Student Testimonial on GW's Dead Poets Society
I began taking classes with Dean Grier in the spring semester of 2005, enrolling in the "Fundamental Texts of International Affairs" class. The course included close readings of Metternich,...
With the Army now ranking as Facebook’s largest community and with myriad official and unofficial military blogs and twitter handles, the U.S. armed forces have become pioneers in the use of...
By Menachem Wecker
When the Red Sox came back from a four-run deficit to win their April 4 season opener against the New York Yankees, two senior staff members at GW could not have been...
By Julia Parmley
In the summer of 1990, GW Assistant Professor of Organizational Sciences Nils Olsen was a 22-year-old tennis instructor at a...
By Menachem Wecker
Barbara von Barghahn still remembers receiving the phone call in 1993 informing her that then-Portuguese President Mário Soares would bestow on her one of Portugal’s...
Ruth Helm Osborn, founding director of Developing New Horizons for Women, one of the first continuing education programs for women in the country, which led to the establishment of GW’s Women...