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Square 54 Zoning Order Affirmed

The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has issued an order affirming the D.C. Zoning Commission’s 2007 decision to approve the development of Square 54. Located at 2200 Pennsylvania...

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Probing the Notorious Scottsboro Trial

By Rachel Muir

The trial name itself became synonymous with injustice.

In 1931, on the basis of flimsy and conflicting evidence, eight young black men were sentenced to death by an...

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An Encyclopedic Knowledge

By Menachem Wecker

According to his Wikipedia entry,...

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Professor Wins Bender Award for Offering ‘Tremendous Insight’ in Health Law and Policy

One of five Bender Teaching Awards this year went to Associate Professor of Health Policy Joel Teitelbaum for his “natural ability to teach and engage students in and outside of the classroom.”...

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A Job Well Done

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...

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Best in Showcase

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...

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Hitting the Links

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,...

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Translational Research

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...

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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,...

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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...