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New Year's Reolutions...

Ask a GW Expert: Whatever Happened to Your New Year’s Resolution?

Why do as many as 80% of us abandon our resolutions in February? Psychology’s Fallon Goodman encourages realistic goals and embracing the hard parts.

Ashley Bastin

Think Fast: Students Sprint for Speed-Thesis Contest

PhD candidates distilled years of scholarship into 180 seconds at the annual Three Minute Thesis competition.

Students for Mental Health Action

Student Leads Peers on Mental Health Mission

From campus to Capitol Hill, graduate student Ethan Fitzgerald guided members of Students for Mental Health Action as they lobbied Congress for reforms.

Paul Wahlbeck

Ideas into Action: CCAS Debuts New Strategic Plan

As the college looks toward the future, Dean Paul Wahlbeck unveils a 21st century vision for the engaged liberal arts.

Anthropology graduate student Isabella Quartiere, BA ’25, with the infamous John Wilkes Booth wanted poster.

‘Wanted!’ Hunt for Lincoln’s Killer Leads Student to Artifact

Anthropology graduate student Isabella Quartiere, BA ’25, is exploring how a John Wilkes Booth wanted poster preserved at GW reflects presidential history.

GW School of Media and Public Affairs

SMPA Launches Endowed Democracy Prize

A new endowed Democracy Innovation Prize will support student projects that promote democracy, strengthen democratic institutions and build civic participation.

Two AI-generated dogs

AI in Action: Faculty Experiment with Teaching Tools

Through new platforms and new innovations, GW scholars and students are putting artificial intelligence to work in classrooms and clinical settings.

Understanding Behavioral Development

In a video conversation with Dean Wahlbeck, Cognitive Neuroscience Professor Gabriella Rosenblau discusses how social cognition develops in childhood, particularly for those with autism.

Technology shifts in biology field work have included drones capturing images like this view of the Nature Conservancy’s Brownsville Preserve in Nassawadox on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. (Photo: Riley Leff)

Marshes, Microbes and the Matrix of Life: Exploring Ecosystem Evolution

From the Chesapeake Bay to vents and volcanoes to D.C. parks, biology faculty detailed their field work on nature’s frontlines as part of a CCAS conversation series.

Students artun Hassan, Claire Belatti, Chloe Gordon and Mikal Armstrong in the GW SMART DC tutoring program present information to their peers on their community tutoring program partner, For Love of Children.

GW Selected for 2026 Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification

The GW SMART DC tutoring program featuring CCAS students (above) was among the activities that helped GW earn the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement.