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Image of Heather Stebbins, a woman with short wavy light hair and glasses, smiling

Faculty in Focus: Heather Stebbins

A performer, composer and technologist as well as an educator, the associate professor of music gives students tools to tell their own stories through sound.

Team members Maryam Shahbaz Ali, Tyler Ordiway, Zihui Chen and Pingyi Xu gather for a photo with Professor Patrick Hall after winning an AI competition for their chatbot, FraudLens.

GW Business Students Harness AI in Inaugural Chatbot Competition

FraudLens, a chatbot that determines why a transaction is flagged, judged winner by industry executives.

Charles Barber

GW General Counsel to Step Down

Vice President and General Counsel Charles Barber will step down on June 30 after more than two decades of service to the university.

John Till

In Video: The Ecology of Plant and Animal Interactions

CCAS Dean Paul Wahlbeck and Professor of Biology John Lill discuss the interplay between plants and animals, and the impact of climate change on their coexistence.

GW President Ellen M. Granberg stands at a podium at the French Embassy

10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Steps Forward and Backward

At a summit cohosted by GW’s Alliance for a Sustainable Future, experts discussed progress and setbacks since the groundbreaking international treaty was signed in 2015.

Carnegie classification

GW Selected for 2026 Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification

Prestigious national recognition highlights sustained partnerships, student service and community-engaged scholarship across the university.

Yair Ben-Dor (left) and Aidan Schurr

GW Students Found Interdisciplinary STEM Magazine

The Catalyst has grown fourfold since its launch a year ago.

Senior Inioluwa Jobi at The Textile Museum

Writing Beyond Bars: Student Storytellers Free Incarcerated Voices

In her digital storytelling class, English’s Emma Wu connects GW students and D.C. inmates through a pen pal project for reclaiming memory and humanity.

Neuroscience Professor John Philbeck, pictured outside D.C. Fire Department Engine Company 23 in Foggy Bottom

Into the Fire: Researcher, Firefighters Team Up on Life-Saving Searches

Psychology’s John Philbeck is taking his spatial cognition research out of the lab and into action to aid search and rescue squads.

LayerPure Technologies

What’s the Big Idea? LayerPure Reimagines Water Filtration Membrane Market

A GW-founded startup is aiming to transform how clean water gets made.