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Tess MarstallerHatchet Reporter
While the phrase "NASA technology" may bring to mind images of space shuttles and intergalactic gadgets, one GW professor has modified the same technology used for surveying outer space in hopes of getting closer to curing diabetes.
Murray Loew, GW's director of the biomedical engineering program, is working along with diabetes expert and Cornell University pharmacology professor Geoffrey Sharp to perfect and promote a software program that they hope will aid future diabetes research and be useful for a variety of other scientific causes.
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Maura Judkis'06-'07 Special Projects Editor
It's the most wonderful time of the year - when visions of sugarplums, A's on finals and flights home for days of relaxation dance through students' heads. All these thoughts, however, are trumped by a more pressing concern - gifts for everyone on our holiday lists.
Two small-town sophomores, Bowen Vernan and Cydnee DeToy, made comfortable conversation over dinner, candlelight and a rose at the Firefly restaurant in Dupont Circle. Bowen: This was my first blind date, and overall the date was really fun. The restaurant was a cool little place, a bit noisy though.
At the onset of her fourth year in college, Eve has learned quite a few things about sex. Eve, The Hatchet's anonymous sex columnist, will share her observations and (sometimes dirty) thoughts about sex at GW with the population that fuels her fire.
Editor's note: names have been changed to protect the naughty.
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Prerna RaoHatchet Staff Writer
Every day students ride the shuttle 2.8 miles to GW's other campus. And every day hundreds of eyes glance at a plot of green, grassy land situated right before turning into the Mount Vernon campus' entryway. What makes this land conspicuous is the fact that it's raised, fenced off with barbed wire and there are bright scary signs that say, "U.
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Hadas GoldLife Editor
We all know the holiday season is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, but for some students, it can be the worst. With the added stresses of final exams, papers and, for some, family problems, the end of the semester can be one of the most mentally difficult times for college students.
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Leah Carliner'07-'08 Life Editor
Jennifer Munoz doesn't need someone to tell her that human trafficking is a global problem that can happen in the United States. To Munoz, it hits home.
Two months ago a 35-year-old football coach was indicted for pimping a 14-year-old girl at a Bowie, Md.
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Megan MarinosHatchet Reporter
Not only does GW alumnus Mike Rhode read comics, he studies them, researches them, even blogs about them. And he does it all for free.
Rhode is a co-author of the Comics Research Bibliography, editor of exhibition and media reviews for the International Journal of Comic Art, a contributing writer for Hogan's Alley, a magazine on cartoon arts, and blogs on his ComicsDC Web site
His professional career as an archivist for the National Museum of Health and Medicine has nothing to do with comics, but that doesn't stop him from finding time to pursue his lifelong passion.
