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CRBNE program

GW Program Prepares Public Safety Professionals for High-Stakes Events

Emergency management leader Jason Kephart shares how GW’s new CBRNE-WMD program helped strengthen his ability to prevent and respond to public-safety threats.

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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.

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.

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.

New Venture Competition 2025

2026 New Venture Competition Features New Food Innovation Track

Applications for the 18th annual competition are now open until Feb. 1.

 GW Honors Maggirwar and Mendelowitz with Endowed Professorships

GW Honors Maggirwar and Mendelowitz with Endowed Professorships

Ceremony highlighted the university’s investment in discovery science, interdisciplinary collaboration and next-generation training.

GW School of Nursing

GW Receives $2.9M to Strengthen Rural Nursing Workforce

The federal grant will support GW Nursing’s accelerated degree programs, creating sustainable pipelines for graduates to work in underserved communities.

Pitch George 2025

Selling Innovative Business Ideas at Pitch George

The annual competition sponsored by the GW Business Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence offers students real-life experiences.

Zoe Szajnfarber, center, with doctoral students during an "AI in the Wild" site visit this summer. (William Atkins/GW Today)

GW Takes Major Step toward Comprehensive AI Strategy with University-Wide Mapping Exercise

Zoe Szajnfarber will lead a community exploration of AI implementation in research, education and operations and the associated opportunities and risks.

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Genetic Testing Reveals Often-Overlooked Fungal Infections in California Clinics

Cryptic fungal pathogen is a dominant cause of drug-resistant infections in the area, a study by Milken Institute SPH’s Lance Price found.

Innovators Pitch Dual-Use Tech to Federal, Commercial Markets

OIE showcases the top performing teams in the Mid-Atlantic NSF I-Corps program and features talks by defense and federal government experts.

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Atoms’ ‘Hidden Order’ Could Be a Game Changer for Semiconductors

Tianshu Li of GW Engineering co-led research finding that atoms in an alloy are not positioned randomly, but instead arrange themselves in “atomic neighborhoods.”

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Exploring Ancient Viruses to Uncover New Clues about Asthma and Allergies

GW researcher Pedro Gazzinelli Guimaraes receives NIH New Innovator Award to investigate how dormant viral genes in our DNA may drive allergic lung inflammation.

USAID/UN Food Programme in Sudan

Humanitarian Aid Faces a Crossroads, New GW Study Finds

In post-USAID era, humanitarian ecosystem is not simply experiencing temporary disruption, it is reconfiguring.

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In Video: The Politics of Immigration

CCAS Dean Paul Wahlbeck in coversation with Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Kimberly Morgan. 

 

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