Columbian College Press Releases
Columbian College Press Releases
GW Launches Summer Arts Initiative
February 3, 2012
GW is placing renewed focus on the arts through a host of courses, special institutes, exhibitions, and events that take advantage of the university’s collaborative partnerships with the area’s museums, galleries, archives, and performing arts venues. Among the new additions for 2012 is a Summer Piano Institute featuring world-renowned guest artists, and a Summer Studio focusing on art and politics at the pre-college level. New summer abroad programs, the Howard Hodgkin’s exhibit at GW’s Luther W. Brady Art Gallery and performing arts events at GW’s Lisner Auditorium are also on tap.
Institute of Biomedical Sciences Student Awarded Two-Year Fellowship from PhRMA
January 26, 2012
Lindsay Garvin, a doctoral candidate pursuing a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology as part of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, a joint program with the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a two-year research fellowship by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association of America (PhRMA) Foundation.
The George Washington University Announces New Graduate Program in Forensic Psychology
January 26, 2012
Agencies involved in homeland security, law enforcement and the criminal justice system increasingly rely on professionals skilled in forensic psychology to help solve crimes and prevent future criminal behavior. To address this critical need, the George Washington University is set to launch a new graduate program in forensic psychology in fall 2012 to train the next generation of criminal profilers, competency experts, psychological evaluators and counselors.
January 19, 2012
The first permanent American home for studies of one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, Sir Winston Churchill, will be located at the George Washington University. The Churchill Centre, a Chicago-based international educational organization devoted to preserving the legacy of Winston Churchill, has agreed to establish the National Churchill Library and Center at the George Washington University through an $8 million pledge to the university. The agreement between the two institutions includes rare books and other research materials for the new Center, academic positions for the study of Churchill and British history and renovations to the ground floor of GW’s Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library. The Center will open in several stages between 2013 and 2015.
GW Collaborates with the Smithsonian Institution
January 13, 2012
Which poultry farms are sending harmful bacteria into the Chesapeake Bay? How are cell phones changing linguistics? George Washington University and Smithsonian researchers hope to answer these questions and others as part of new joint research projects that the institutions announced today. The five new initiatives will focus on Exploration of Maritime Archaeology of the Transatlantic Slave Trade; Primate Breast Milk: Effect on Infant Growth, Development, and Adult Disease; Analysis of Political and Cultural Ecologies of Cell Phones; Impact of Turbulence on Distribution of Dissolved Gases in Aquatic Environments; and Effect of Watershed Discharge of Poultry Feeding Operations.
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