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New Degrees Match Marketplace Demand

From deciphering troves of big data to exploring the complexities of the brain, new undergraduate degrees in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences seek to prepare...

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Coast Guard Alumni Serve Ships and Shores

Captain Zeita Merchant, MPA ’10, is responsible for keeping a massive marine system, The U.S. Coast Guard Sector New York, secure.

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Grants Support Research Breakthroughs

Grants for HIV research

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Psychology Student Reigns as Miss D.C.

Clinical psychology doctoral candidate Andolyn Medina excels in her studies and on pageant stages. Now the newly-crowned Miss D.C. is competing for a new title.

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Meet the Columbian Distinguished Fellows

From examining the psychological effects of political polarization to tying disability themes to fantasy genres, the PhD student winners of the Columbian Distinguished Fellowship represent a wide...

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Campus Mural to Honor First Black Alumna’s Legacy

In summer 2020, Naseem Haamid, BA ’21, a political science major and Bronx, N.Y., native, received a call from then-senior business administration major Owen Manning...

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Study: School Shootings Shatter Communities

The decades-long plague of school shootings in America has left survivors traumatized and families devastated. Now a new study co-authored by Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public...

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Alumna Pictures Digital Diversity

Claritza Jiménez, BA ’05, has launched a business-to-business site called InColorStock that she hopes will fill the market gap for diverse images.

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Failing Grade: Are Americans Flunking Historical Literacy?

For historians like Christopher Brick, BA ’02, director of the Columbian College History...

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GW-BNU Summer Statistics Research Virtual Forum 2021

This June, the GW Department of Statistics and the School of Statistics at Beijing Normal University presented a three-day virtual research forum. At the forum, program experts shared cutting-edge...