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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...

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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...

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"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...

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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...

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Solar Symposium to Feature Student Analysis of China's Solar Policy

Clean, renewable, and infinite are just a few words that describe the topic bringing great minds to campus this week: solar energy. The GW Solar Institute, which is part of the Columbian College,...

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Serenity Sentinel in Southeast DC

In Washington, D.C., the phrase “East of the River” is a common reference to Anacostia, a historic neighborhood that has been associated with low-income housing, poverty, and the highest homicide...

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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...

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Alumni Award-Winner Credits GW for Career Success

The Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration has awarded Frank P. DiGiammarino, III, MPA ’95, the Distinguished Alumni Award for achievements in the areas of...

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Polling Dr. Sides: State of the 2012 Presidential Election

As the public wades through the Republican presidential primaries and non-stop news coverage of the nomination contest continues, we asked Associate Professor of Political Science John...