Recent Faculty Books
It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television
Gayle Wald, professor of English, examines the first African American black variety television program, "Soul!," which was influential in expressing the diversity of black popular culture, thought and politics, as well as helping to create the notion of black community.
The Public Sector R&D Enterprise
Peter Linquiti, associate professor of Environmental Resource Policy, provides students and practitioners alike with a primer on how government R&D programs actually work and a sophisticated methodology for valuing R&D investments before they are made.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture
Elise A. Friedland, associate professor of classics and art history, contributes to this handbook which analyzes sculptures from regions throughout the Roman Empire and emphasizes various approaches to the study of Roman sculpture.
Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition
Carmel Chiswick, professor of economics, argues that economics is a blind spot in our understanding of religion and recasts the history of American Jews as one of innovation in order to maintain a distinctive Jewish culture.
GW Faculty Award Winners
Christopher Klemek (L) and Denver Brunsman (R) were among the 2015-2016 GW Faculty Award Winners.
Research
At the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, we foster discovery and creativity in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. As a premier research facility, students work side-by-side with faculty in labs, classrooms and the field to uncover new questions and answer age-old mysteries.
Our departments are actively engaged in cutting-edge research initiatives, partnering with prestigious institutes and foundations. Through the constant development of theories, the gathering and interpretation of data and the formulation of new techniques of inquiry, our research helps find solutions to real-world concerns.
Columbian College Research News
Climate Change: What Caterpillars Can Tell Us
Discovered: Oldest Flying Reptile
GW Computational Biology Institute: Making Sense of Big Data
Planet Forward Will Lead University Consortium
Restored Jewish Documents Save a People’s History
Silenced By the Sea
Climate Change: What Caterpillars Can Tell Us
The evidence of climate change is seemingly all around us. But are we overlooking one of the smallest and most insightful signs? In a video conversation with Dean Ben Vinson, John Lill explains how a shift in a tiny caterpillar’s life-cycle can impact an entire ecosystem.
Discovered: Oldest Flying Reptile
An international team that included Columbian College Professor James Clark and his former graduate student Brian Andres, MS ’03, has discovered and named the earliest and most primitive pterodactyloid.
GW Computational Biology Institute: Making Sense of Big Data
The Human Genome Project opened a new world of genetic research—and released a vast reserve of data. How can science decipher all that information? The Computational Biology Institute is cracking the code on complex biological systems. Read More.
Planet Forward Will Lead University Consortium
Planet Forward announced the launch of the Planet Forward University Consortium, a multimedia digital story-telling collaborative to engage universities around the world in addressing environmental threats. The consortium will study sustainability and crises in food security, water, energy and climate change.
Restored Jewish Documents Save a People’s History
The fate of Jewish artifacts during the Nazi and Soviet domination of Eastern Europe has long been a source of angst. The Fleischman Lecture—funded through an endowment to Columbian College and hosted by Poland’s Embassy—revealed how a long-lost archive was recovered.
Silenced By the Sea
For centuries, the legacy of sunken slave ships has been lost at the bottom of the ocean. Now, Stephen Lubkemann is part of an historic collaboration between cultural institutions and a team of international maritime archeologists trying to raise these stories from the deep.
Science and Engineering Hall
The Science of Teamwork
Inside Columbian College's Science and Engineering Hall, cross-disciplinary collaborations and new discoveries are just one experiment—and one elevator ride—away. Learn more.
GW Arts & Sciences Update
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