Road closures, beefed-up security and parking restrictions are only some of the measures the University and city have planned to manage the throngs of people expected for the inauguration next week, administrators said.
About two dozen people gathered Thursday evening to remember a quirky homeless man and familiar face around GW who was brutally slain near campus on Christmas Eve.
GW Hillel is looking to pull itself out of a financial hole after losing 8 percent of its small endowment in the Bernard Madoff scandal last month and seeing a 22 percent drop in donations for the year.
The University took a major step toward its goal of expanding research opportunities with the announcement of a prominent neuroscientist as the first vice president for research last month.
It will take more than bullets and bombs to stop Jaclyn Rothenberg from spending a semester in Israel.
The University announced last week that Lorraine Voles, an alumna with more than a decade of communications experience in D.C., will be the school's first vice president of external relations.
A D.C. City Council member and GW professor is trying to alter a local law that prohibits unpaid interns from suing their employers.
About 50 students gave up a week of their winter vacation to come back to D.C. and help build GW's inaugural float - though they do not see it as much of a sacrifice.
This semester two juniors created Leximo, an online dictionary that they hope will eventually feature user-generated definitions of words from every language.
Not one of the 5,200 people with a ticket to GW's Inaugural Ball? There is still hope.
Members of the U.S. Army Field Band of Washington, D.C. participate in a practice run-through of the inaugural parade Sunday morning in front of the White House.
Three positions in the Student Association were left vacant at the end of last semester, and the SA Rules Committee is tasked with filling them before the body's next meeting in February.
A suspect in the murders of a GW alumnus and his wife pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Friday.
Some popular Foggy Bottom establishments do not know if they will be permitted to extend their hours and alcohol service during inauguration weekend.
This year's Martin Luther King Jr. Day GW community service event has filled to capacity much earlier than expected, organizers said.
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