It’s Not Just Climate Change: Study Finds Human Activity Is a Major Factor Driving Wildfires
A new study examining wildfires in California found that human activity explains as much about their frequency and location as climate influences. The researchers systematically looked at human...
Researchers Develop Technique to Convert Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide into Batteries
An interdisciplinary team of scientists, led by Professor of Chemistry Stuart Licht, has worked out a way to make electric vehicles that are not only carbon neutral, but carbon negative...
Cynthia Dowd, Associate Professor of Chemistry, is studying a promising possible treatment for malaria and tuberculosis with a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health...
President George Washington’s legacy as a champion of religious freedom and the acceptance of all faiths will be sustained with a new institute in GW's Columbian College. The university announced...
Triceratops Gets A Cousin: Researchers Identify Another Horned Dinosaur Species
The Ceratopsia family is growing again. A team of researchers led by, James Clark, Ronald Weintraub Associate Professor of Biology at the George Washington University and Xu Xing, professor at the...
Human Brains Evolved to be More Responsive to Environmental, Social and Cultural Influences
Researchers at the GW Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology discovered that human brains exhibit more plasticity, propensity to be modeled by the
The atrium of the historic Corcoran Building, home to Columbian College's Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, will be open to the public three days a week beginning Oct. 29 for the “Push...
Extinct Ape Species Reset the Scale on Humans' Ancestors
A team of researchers, led by Sergio Almécija, assistant professor of anthropology in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Science,...
Hunters, Architects, and Super Sleuths: 13 Surprising Facts About Spiders
Gustavo Hormiga, the Ruth Weintraub Professor of Biology at GW, shares 13 surprising facts about spiders.
Detecting the Undetectable: New Chip Identifies Chemicals in Ultratrace Amounts
A GW professor has designed new technology that can identify traces of chemicals at 10-19 moles, a previously undetectable amount.
