Pioneer of DNA Testing to Chair Forensic Sciences
Victor Weedn, who oversaw the development of the first portable DNA testing device, which became the basis for the U.S. Postal Service’s anthrax detection equipment, will join Columbian College...
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Chemistry Alumna and New GW Trustee Madeleine Jacobs on Service, Philanthropy, and Career
Madeleine Jacobs, BS ’68, HON ’03, executive director and CEO of the American Chemical Society, was on campus recently as a member of Columbian College’s National Council of Arts...
Wheelchair Diaries: A Student's Quest for Accessibility
For Reid Davenport—who has cerebral palsy and often relies on a wheelchair to get around campus to avoid fatigue—the dream of studying in Italy during his junior year was “...
Number of Full-time Faculty on the Rise
Columbian College will have increased the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty from 317 in 2009 to 358 by fall 2012—figures that are pushing the total number of regular full-time regular...
Changing Course: Unknown Opportunities Abound for Senior Tim Quinn
First-year students often enter GW imagining the four years ahead of them will take a certain shape and follow a particular path. But sometimes a surreptitious encounter with a professor, friend,...
A Senior Moment: Graduates Reflect on Their Time at GW
With the Columbian College Celebration and GW Commencement around the corner, emotions are running high this time of year as seniors say goodbye to friends and faculty and look ahead with...
Chiswick on the Economy and Rise in Student Economics Majors
The seminal research on labor markets and immigration by Barry Chiswick, chair of the Department of Economics, seems particularly relevant today as the nation struggles to rebound...
Columbian College: Home of the Hot Big Bang Theory
by William C. Parke, GW Professor of Physics
Most defenses of physics dissertations attract less than a dozen in the audience. That was not the case 64 years ago this month when...
"Action" Projects Featured at the Clinton Global Initiative University
Columbian College students joined the ranks of Bill Clinton, Usher, Madeleine Albright, Jon Stewart, and some of the world’s foremost social entrepreneurs to present their...
Sleuthing with Science: CSI Summer Institute
Police, science teachers, photographers, forensic science enthusiasts, and CSI “wannabes” take note: registration is now open for a summer institute that places participants on a path to becoming...