Color Me Cautious: Don’t Mistake Adult Coloring Books for Art Therapy
By John DiConsiglio
As a second-year graduate student in the GW Art Therapy Program, Lida Sunderland learned how to use materials like clay and colored pencils to help...
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Psychology and our Daily Lives
By John DiConsiglio
Like anyone who has boarded a plane, the students in Associate Professor of Psychology Stephen Mitroff’s freshman seminar Science in the District were...
Loeb Gift Creates Institute for Religious Freedom at GW
President George Washington’s legacy as a champion of religious freedom and the acceptance of all faiths will be sustained at GW through a new institute in Columbian College. The John L. Loeb Jr....
New Graduate Degrees Match Marketplace Demand
To keep pace with the evolving challenges of the 21st-century global marketplace, new graduate programs have been launched to better prepare students for in-demand expertise in green chemistry and...
No one will ever fault Professor of Chemistry Stuart Licht for a lack of investigative ambition. Having already developed revolutionary methods for making fertilizer and cement...
By John DiConsiglio
Growing up in a small Texas town, MFA dance student Felicia Avalos knew little about her father’s past as a undocumented immigrant from Mexico. She had...
Nature and Nurture: Human Brain Evolved to Respond to Environment
What is it about the human brain that makes us so different from chimpanzees, our closest living relatives? Lead by postdoctoral scientist Aida Gómez-Robles from the Center for...
Peace is a state we all want to attain—for ourselves, for our loved ones, for the world. But peace means different things to different people and cultures.
GW Culture Buffs Hit Miami Beach for Art Basel
By Carey Russell
Artists, A-list celebrities, art collectors—and GW alumni—flocked to Miami Beach, Florida, this past weekend for Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the biggest art fairs in the...