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Plato and Policing: Alumnus’ Unique Class for Cops

At a Baltimore City police precinct, Detective Edward Gillespie, BA ’92, leads a classroom of officers through a lesson on procedural justice. But the text he uses isn’t a police...

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From Taiwan, Dance Students Look to the Future

For eight days last summer, senior dance and international affairs majors Marlee Grant and Hana Springer lived out a cultural and artistic dream. The pair...

MIA: Chronicling the Long Journey Home

Anthropology Professor and Guggenheim Fellow Sarah Wagner’s research on the recovery and identification of MIA service members has taken her from Vietnam battlefields to forensic science labs to the...

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Economics in the Real World

Economics' Joann Weiner shares her thoughts on tax policy, global markets, the ride-share economy and inspiring her students to think like economists in an insightful conversation with Columbian...

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Is Shakespeare Colorblind?

Modern interpretations of Shakespeare.

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Understanding North Korea

Few trouble spots around the world are as perilous as North Korea. With the Communist nation emerging as a de facto nuclear power, world leaders are searching for clues to its global intentions...

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Hands-on Clinical Training Turns Students into Professional Psychologists

For an hour prior to seeing her first client at the GW Professional Psychology Program’s Center Clinic, second-year graduate student Jesse Greenblatt was more anxious than her new patient. She...

Hands-on Clinical Training Turns Students into Professional Psychologists

Professional Psychology graduate students gain invaluable hands-on experience treating patients at the program’s Center Clinic.

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Turning a Career Into Art

Earlier this semester, Art History Professor Lilien Robinson, BA ’62, MA ’65, showed her undergraduate class on 19th Century European Art a famous 1814 oil painting by the French...

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Japanese Language Competition Sharpens Students’ Speech

Born in China, Yi Zhao considers himself just a mediocre Japanese speaker. His pronunciation isn’t perfect and he reads the language—among the five he’s studied—more fluidly than...