New GWorld Cards Include Emergency Information
Incoming George Washington University students pick up their identification cards at the GWorld card office on the ground floor of the Marvin Center. The new cards feature emergency services...
View ArticleNew Travel Options Available at George Washington University
Faculty, staff and students can sign up for car sharing, hotel services.Monday, July 6, 2015 10:04 a.m.Beginning July 6, George Washington University faculty, staff and students over the age of 18 will...
View ArticleComfort Women Bring Fight for Reparations to GW
Bok-dong Kim (second left) is a surviving comfort woman.Advocate and WWII sexual slavery survivor share journey at George Washington University.Monday, July 6, 2015 10:20 a.m.Bok-dong Kim left her home...
View ArticleVice President Ellis, Faculty Leaders Address Employee Benefits Questions
Vice President for Human Resources Sabrina Ellis fields questions from the audience Thursday at a town hall event to discuss concerns regarding staff employee benefits. (William Atkins/GW Today)Town...
View ArticleBetween Teachers and Businesses, a Promising Partnership
Teachers watched from the ramp tower at Dulles International Airport as air traffic controllers guided planes to safety. (William Atkins/GW Today)Virginia teachers peek into their students’ potential...
View ArticleAlumna Solves Real-Life Forensics Mysteries
Adrienne Borges, a veteran data analyst in Bode’s Human Identification Group, solves mysteries for international governments, police departments and families searching for lost loved ones.Adrienne...
View ArticleVirginia Campus Exhibition Honors Loudoun County Painter
"Umbria Stop," a painting by alumna Sherry Zvares Sanabria, who died last March. A retrospective for the painter is being held at GW.Retrospective showcases the work of the late artist and alumna...
View ArticleDaniel E. Martínez Named Director of the GW Cisneros Hispanic Leadership...
Mexican American Scholar to Serve in Post During Institute’s Inaugural Year.Monday, July 13, 2015 1:38 p.m.Daniel E. Martínez, an assistant professor of sociology at the George Washington University...
View ArticleGW Announces Partnership with Bipartisan Policy Center, Saint Anselm College
Politics and elections class provides new opportunity for Semester in Washington students.Wednesday, July 15, 2015 3:34 p.m. By James IrwinStudents enrolled in the next cohort of the George Washington...
View ArticleResearchers Identify Nasal Bacteria to Combat Staph, MRSA
A scanning electron micrograph of MRSA and a dead white blood cell. GW researchers have identified certain types of nasal bacteria that could help fight off drug-resistant infections caused by MRSA....
View ArticleUnsealed Rosenberg Grand Jury Documents May Show Perjury
Rosenberg Trial experts attorney David Vladeck, legal scholar Brad Snyder, Director of the National Security Archive Tom Blanton and historian Steve Usdin discussed the newly released grand jury...
View ArticleLGBT Health Forum ‘Accents the T’
Hector Vargas, Ruby Corado, Stephen Forssell, Naseema Shafi, Ilan Meyer and Mara Keisling participate in the 2015 LGBT health forum.Annual discussion focuses on the future of health care in the...
View ArticleGW Students Find Footing on a Career Path Through Summer Internships
Graduate Student Faezeh Behzadnejad was able to pursue her passion for international development through tourism as an intern at the World Bank Group. Before turning their tassels on the National Mall,...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Marc Abrahms
Marc AbrahmsFine art photographer gave his name to Marvin Center entrance.Monday, July 27, 2015 9:26 a.m.Marc Abrahms, photographer and philanthropist, died July 16 in Bloomfield, Conn. A longtime...
View ArticleStandardized Test Scores Will Be Optional for GW Applicants
Beginning in August, submitting SAT or ACT scores will no longer be required for most students applying for undergraduate admission. Monday, July 27, 2015 9:40 a.m.The George Washington University will...
View ArticleGW Researcher Reveals Why Some Immune Systems Protect Against HIV Infection
Doug Nixon, chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, and colleagues have identified a biological marker for identifying those who could be immune to an HIV infection....
View ArticleHuman Hands Less Evolved Than Chimp Hands
A chimpanzee hand (left) has longer fingers and shorter thumbs compared to the human hand (right). (Image credit: Denise Morgan for the University of Utah)A new study from a GW paleobiologist shakes up...
View ArticleGW Data Highlights U.S. Voters’ Favorable Attitudes toward Undocumented...
New GW Battleground Poll report finds most U.S. voters view undocumented immigrants favorably. (Photo Courtesy of NCLR/Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition)A majority of those polled said...
View ArticleGW Physicists Track Stellar Material Speeding Through Space
Evidence from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that a clump of stellar material has been jettisoned away from a double star system at incredibly high speeds. (Image Credit:...
View ArticleMaking History Tops $770 million
Student success is at the heart of the GW mission, George Washington President Steven Knapp said. "It really is about our students. Everything else we do is in the service of that mission." (Amanda...
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