Featured Stories
The Daring Alumna on the Flying Trapeze
In her mid-30s, Laura Wooster, BA ’97, swung into a career as a trapeze artist. She’s taken her aerial expertise from circus big tops to the White House.
Mission: Rescue the Bay
Biology’s Keryn Gedan leads her student researchers into the Eastern Shore marshes of the Chesapeake Bay, where sea level is rising at three times the global average.
Finding Answers to Aphasia
People with aphasia can feel like prisoners within their own brains. Malathi Thothathiri and her students are searching for a better understanding of the disorder.
New Faculty Strengthen CCAS Ranks
Columbian College welcomed 29 new full-time faculty members this year, strengthening disciplines across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
On the Roof of Africa
For a team of GW students, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania was the adventure of a lifetime—and a charitable expedition.
Midterm Math: Making Elections Add Up
Can math save our election system? Daniel Ullman and E. Arthur Robinson forecast the pluses and minuses of how we count votes.
Must Reads: A CCAS Faculty Bookshelf
Alumni Reflections: The CCAS Experience
What makes Columbian College such a special place to learn and grow? Our alumni share their favorite memories from the campus, classrooms and community.
Comedy Central: Alumna Polls Political Laughs
Comedian Cody Lindquist, BA ’02, is tickling political funny bones as the voice of Melania Trump in a Stephen Colbert animated series.
New Grant Awards Support Discovery
Alumnus Poet Turns Reluctant Activist
Writer Yahia Lababidi, BA ’96, is loath to mix politics and poetry. But in his latest collection, he points his pen at anti-immigrant hostility.
Class of 2018 Reflections: Moments and Memories
As graduating seniors said goodbye to friends and faculty, a few shared the moments and memories that shaped their CCAS experience.
Edward Green Establishes Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Department of Anthropology’s newly established Edward C. Green Postdoctoral Fellowship Fund will train professionals who plan to work outside academia.
A Legacy Comes to Life
The words, wisdom and remarkable legacy of “The First Lady of the World” is being brought to life through the painstaking work of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project.
Can Art Therapy Defuse Teacher Burnout?
With half a million teachers leaving the profession each year, Art Therapy graduate student Christina Hagemeier devised a research project to explain the ABCs of burnout—and to show beleaguered educators that they aren’t alone.