For Gustavo Hormiga, the Ruth Weintraub Professor of Biology, the Juan Fernandez Islands are a researcher’s dream. The sparsely inhabited volcanic archipelago 400 miles off the...
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Alumna’s Mission: Making Global Educational Dreams a Reality
Before coming to GW, Ashleigh DeLuca, BA ’13, took a gap year and traveled to The Gambia in West Africa. Only 17, she volunteered as a sixth grade English teacher in Mukumbaya, an...
Can Art Therapy Defuse Teacher Burnout?
In an Oklahoma elementary school, Christina Hagemeier, a second-year graduate student in the CCAS Art Therapy Program, prepares her class for an assignment. She hands out art...
Living Art: When a Chemistry Lab Doubles as an Art Studio
In Assistant Professor of Chemistry Erik Rodriguez’s lab, fluorescent proteins are lighting the way toward discoveries that could lead to, for example, breakthroughs in cancer...
New Interdisciplinary BA and BS Programs in Neuroscience Launched
Neuroscience is now providing new insights into the biological basis of behavior and thought, as well as the role of the brain in mediating healthy outcomes. Over the past several years, an...
Paul Wahlbeck Named CCAS Interim Dean
Paul Wahlbeck, CCAS vice dean for programs and research and professor of political science, will serve as CCAS interim dean following the departure of Dean Ben Vinson...
Art + Science = A Hybrid Project Combining Politics and Dance
Student hybrid project combining politics and dance
In Engaged Liberal Arts Classes, Students Combine Scholarship With Professional Development
When sophomore Carley Christerson enrolled in Columbian College’s Public History class last fall, she was looking forward to a curriculum that included discussions on urban...
Exploring the Frontier of the Periodic Table
Professor of Chemistry and International Affairs Christopher Cahill has spent most of his academic and research career at the bottom of the Periodic Table. There—far below such...
Dean Vinson Departing CCAS to Become Provost of Case Western Reserve University
Ben Vinson will be leaving his role as dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences to serve as the next provost and executive vice president of Case Western Reserve...