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Sighting in the Sky

It isn’t every day that something scientifically extraordinary is sighted in the sky, which makes Oleg Kargaltsev’s recent discovery that much more significant....

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A Sampling of New Books by Columbian College Faculty

If you browse the library of books authored by Columbian College faculty this year, you’d discover prolific scholarship on topics ranging from the Trojan War to the citizenship of women in the U.S...

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Tweets, Likes, and Hashtags: The New Language of Law Enforcement?

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are just for fun, entertainment, and catching up with friends, right? Think again. Research by Lori Brainard demonstrates how social media sites are...

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Political Science: Celebrating a Century of Progress

Woodrow Wilson was in his first year as president of the United States, suffragettes were demanding equal voting rights for women, and garment workers in New York and Boston took to the streets to...

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Welcome, New Faculty!

Forty-three full-time faculty members joined Columbian College this year, a figure that includes 12 new positions spread equally across the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Among...

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Uncovering the Human Impact of U.S. Border Policies

The United States is known as the land of opportunity … if you can get there. The fate of unauthorized migrants who cross the border from Mexico is of particular interest to Daniel E....

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Thoughts on Friendship

Aristotle defined friendship as a “single soul residing in one body.” Jane Austen described it as the “finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” And Oscar Wilde adroitly noted “true friends...

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Young Love: What Causes Dysfunctional Romance?

The way young adults respond to the intense emotions that come with romance may say something about how they were brought up. Recent graduate Michelle Kuhn, BA ’13, looked at...

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Unimaginable Journeys: From Friendship to Surrogacy

By Heidi Bardot, MA ’99, Director, GW Art Therapy Program

I didn’t know it at the time but my experience as an Art Therapy graduate student nearly 15 years ago proved life-...