Valentines: Gillian & Noah Zachary
Call it a Columbian College love story. Gillian & Noah Zachary met in class, dated on campus, and tied the knot as grads. Now the alumni couple are adding new layers...
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Giving Peace a Chance: Student’s Gift to Peace Studies Caps Amazing Journey
Mac Kibum Lee calls himself a searcher. Just 22, the political science major finds himself pondering questions that scholars and statesmen spend a lifetime studying: Why is it so...
Lunar New Year Celebrates "Year of the Horse"
With a resounding “Ni hao” [“hello” in Chinese] and a toast to the “Year of the Horse,” Dean Ben Vinson greeted guests gathered for the celebratory launch on January 31 of the...
Vertes Scores $14.6 Million Grant to Study Bio-Chemical Threats
A team led by Professor of Chemistry Akos Vertes will receive up to $14.6 million over five years from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to find a way to...
Sex, Lies & Videotape: ‘Pornoscholar’ Explodes Myths of Black Women and Adult Films
In her first book, "The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography," Assistant Professor Jennifer Nash tackles a subject that makes some people squirm: depictions of black women in hard...
'Teaching Star' Brings Jewish Lit to Life
With a cast of literary superstar that includes writers E.L. Doctorow, Erica Jong, and Pulitzer winners Tony Kushner and Michael Chabon, it’s easy to understand why Time magazine dubbed...
So you want to be an archaeologist? Leave your Indiana Jones fantasies at home. At the Koobi Fora Field School in Kenya, students get their hands dirty. They dig wells, battle 120 degree heat,...
A Map of the World: GIS Certificate Offers Cutting-Edge Skills
From environmental scientists to bridge builders, from disease trackers to fire departments, more and more professionals rely on geographic information systems (GIS). The mapping technology has...
Do the Math: A Hot Subject Adds Majors
For Columbian College sophomore Kendall Moffett-Sklaroff, declaring a math major was a no-brainer. No other subject even comes close to inspiring her passions. “It’s so cool to...
When Columbian College senior Laura Kaye witnessed a bike crash on campus recently, she sprinted to action while others stood paralyzed.
Kaye instinctively ran over to...
Understanding and Cultivating STEM-Focused Education
A new study co-led by a GW researcher is taking a closer look at “Inclusive Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics” high schools for possible solutions.
What guides the decisions we make? Past research indicates that our choices, both voluntary and involuntary, are separate processes in the brain. But, according to a study by Sarah...
Learning from the Ancient Greeks
What can the world’s first democracy teach us about tackling today’s political polarization? In an essay written for Professor Diane Clines’ History of Ancient Greece class,...
Forecasting Wildfires: The Science behind the Destruction
This past year, raging wildfires have burned thousands of acres of land, ravaged homes, and claimed lives. The staggering toll of destruction underscores the importance of predicting when and how...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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-...
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...
Little leaguers and professional baseball players alike have our extinct ancestors to thank for their success on the mound, according to a study by Neil Roach, a postdoctoral...
Katherine Bradshaw’s Love of the Bard
Forget contemporary authors and playwrights—for Katherine Bradshaw, it’s all about William Shakespeare! The rising sophomore’s...
Unlocking a Cure for Tuberculosis
Chemistry’s Cynthia Dowd Leads Effort to Identify New Ways to Fight the Disease
In a study led by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Cynthia Dowd, researchers identified a...
Conflicted City: Analyzing East Jerusalem through a Geographic Lens
Aurora Echavarria analyzed how past conflicts between the two peoples have affected Jerusalem’s physical environment and exacerbated tension.
What a Catch: Biology PhD Candidate Sequences Fish Genome
Growing up in Argentina, Daniela Campanella, a doctoral candidate in biological sciences, fished the fresh lagoons of the Pampas Region with her father and grandfather, catching...
Unmanned Flying Vehicles: The Next Criminal Element?
There is much in the news these days on privacy concerns relating to the proliferation of drones in the U.S. but not much discussion about the potential criminal factor. Just imagine a robot...
Philanthropy-Inspired Fellowship Partners National Park Service and Columbian College
A new graduate certificate program has been created within Columbian College to strengthen knowledge about the natural and cultural resources that form the heart of the National Park Service (NPS...