Faculty Research

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Columbian College faculty are prolific authors, award-winning scholars and noted innovators and artists. They are recipients of Guggenheims, Pulitzers and NEH fellowships, cited in top media outlets, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, published in leading scholarly journals like Nature and Science, and affiliated with prestigious academic centers, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Faculty are also integral to GW's membership in the Association of American Universities (AAU), the top tier of research universities in North America.
 

CCAS Office of Research Blog

 


Faculty Research Conversations

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Our Democracy at Work

In a video conversation with CCAS Dean Wahlbeck, Professor of Political Science Chris Warshaw discusses how public opinion and political outcomes impact policy.

Ling Hao and Paul Wahlbeck on stage speaking with a Columbian College sign in the background

Chemistry's Role in Studying Brain Disease

In a video conversation with CCAS Dean Paul Wahlbeck, Chemistry's Ling Hao discusses the role of chemistry, bioinformatics and cell biology in the study of human neurodegenerative diseases.

 

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Faculty Books

Inclusive Stem

Inclusive STEM: Transforming Disciplinary Writing Instruction for a Socially Just Future

September 23, 2024

Co-edited by Chemistry's LaKeisha McClary, the book encompasses a diversity of STEM education contexts and offers instructional strategies and assignments for creating equitable, inclusive classrooms.

The Documentary Filmmakers Workbook cover, by Nina Golden Seavey

The Documentary Filmmaker’s Workbook

September 12, 2024

SMPA's Nina Gilden Seavey, research professor emerita, offers an instructional filmmaking guide that can be flipped upside down to create two books in one.

Fundraising

Fundraising: Principles and Practice

September 10, 2024

TSPPPA Professor Michael Worth offers an updated comprehensive introduction to fundraising that focuses on both theory and practice.


Inside Faculty Research

Columbian College Faculty Out Front

With prestigious fellowships, our community of faculty scholars are making an impact across the sciences, the social sciences, the arts and the humanities.

Faculty Grants & Awards

Major research grants from such institutions as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are helping to propel the work of Columbian College faculty in significant ways.

Research Support

At Columbian College, faculty take advantage of a variety of internal and external funding opportunities to facilitate research while encouraging scholarship and cross-disciplinary innovation.

Research Resources & Updates

The Columbian College Office of Research strives to provide opportunities and support to faculty participating in research activities. Visit their site to find updates, policies, events and more.

 

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"We could be pushing the edge of what's thought to have been possible. We could be going beyond all of our boundaries."

Evangeline Downie
Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Physics