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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Changing Course: Unknown Opportunities Abound for Senior Tim Quinn
First-year students often enter GW imagining the four years ahead of them will take a certain shape and follow a particular path. But sometimes a surreptitious encounter with a professor, friend,...
A Senior Moment: Graduates Reflect on Their Time at GW
With the Columbian College Celebration and GW Commencement around the corner, emotions are running high this time of year as seniors say goodbye to friends and faculty and look ahead with...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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,...
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...
Undergraduate Research Fellow Informs Theory Behind Stuttering
More than 68 million people worldwide are affected by stuttering—a communication disorder in which speech is interrupted by abnormal pauses in syllables, broken repetitions, and prolongations of...