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Keeping 19,500 Students Entertained: A Look at GW’s Program Board

By Julia Parmley

Cruises, concerts and film series — not to mention big name artists Kanye West, Ben Folds and Jason Mraz — have captivated GW students. And for almost 40 years, the...

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Helping Students Serve

As executive director of GW Hillel, which promotes religious pluralism on campus, Robert Fishman is thrilled to employ Federal Work Study students at the Gewirz Center at 23rd and H streets....

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Free H1N1 Flu Shot Clinics This Week

The George Washington University will host free H1N1 influenza shot clinics Dec. 14-18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the GW Student Health Service on 2141 K St., NW. A limited quantity of the H1N1...

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Medical Center Partnership Addresses Physician Shortage in Eritrea

The East African nation Eritrea has eight obstetrician-gynecologists for a population of 5 million. It’s a critical shortfall, and one that the Partnership for Eritrea — a joint venture between...

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Supreme Court Justice Keynotes Law Review

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy addressed a capacity crowd Oct. 15 at GW’s Dorothy Betts Theatre for the opening event of the two-day George Washington Law Review Symposium. The...

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Making the Present Past

By Menachem Wecker

When Rembrandt sought models for his biblical subjects, he used his Jewish neighbors in 17th-century Amsterdam as models and dressed them from his large collection of...

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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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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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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...