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12/8/08

• D.C. homeless struggle for housing

11/24/08

• Getting their attention

10/20/08

• Univ. offers mobile mammograms

10/6/08

• Sedaris shares stories at Lisner

9/29/08

• City closes local homeless shelter

9/15/08

• Rhee-thinking D.C. schools

5/12/08

• Speaker | College of Professional Studies: Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman
• Speaker | School of Business: Consulting executive Judith Muhlberg
• Speaker | School of Engineering and Applied Science: Business leader, trustee Mark Hughes
• Study faults University for academics

4/24/08

• University plans major overhaul of GWorld

4/21/08

• Security guards get wage increase

4/7/08

• GW accepted 36 percent of applicants
• What's in a class name?

3/13/08

• Professor resigns without notice

2/28/08

• Students pay tribute to hate-crime victim

2/11/08

• Knapp to invest millions in research infrastructure

2/4/08

• Margaret Truman Daniel, GW alumna and former first daughter, dies at 83

12/10/07

• Union, University agree on contract

11/12/07

• SEAS dean resigns unexpectedly

10/22/07

• Board of Trustees chairman discusses goals
• Knapp vows to lower tuition

10/11/07

• A portrait of the poster's creators

10/4/07

• Knapp starts task force to examine environmental policies

9/17/07

• Fee to replace GWorld cards debated

9/6/07

• National Security Archive: On the paper trail
• Textbook trading struggles on the Web

9/4/07

• Two new aides join Knapp's team

6/20/07

• 'Feather' Phil Grosser, 22, a "character"
• Anna Orthwein, 19, was vibrant
• Eddie Bieber, 96, was a campus icon
• Notable and quotable
• SASS looks at department's efficiency

5/21/07

• Board of Trustees point to problems with University Writing
• Commencement runs smoothly, despite inclement weather
• School of Public Policy and Administration named after Trachtenberg
• WEB UPDATE: GW student Phill Grosser dies in Colorado motorcycle accident
• WEB UPDATE: Old Man Schenley dead at 96

5/14/07

• Johnny Rockets opens in Foggy Bottom after months of delays
• Three will receive GW Award at Commencement

4/30/07

• GW team wins inaugural real estate competition
• Honors program to adopt part of 4x4 curriculum
• WEB UPDATE: Gore to visit Lisner May 29
• WEB UPDATE: Trachtenberg to receive honorary degree from Columbia

4/23/07

• Faculty Senate report finds research is not profitable

4/16/07

• Elliott School faculty postpones 4x4 vote
• WEB EXTRA: Faculty Senate discusses research funding

4/9/07

• Admissions rate expected to be best in GW history

4/5/07

• Columbian College delays 4x4 vote

3/29/07

• GW Professor hopes to exhume Harry Houdini's body to investigate murder

3/22/07

• Six J Street venues to reduce operating hours
• Sports editor Jake Sherman elected Hatchet's editor in chief

3/8/07

• Administrators use special funds for students, departments in need

3/5/07

• Students react to 4x4
• WEB EXTRA: Elliot school to add new classes

2/26/07

• GW's longest serving employee, '46 graduate dies

2/22/07

• Early Decision applications down by about 200

2/20/07

• Board of Trustees makes academic changes
• Faculty Senate rejects four-by-four proposal

2/12/07

• GW to charge incoming freshmen more than $50,000
• Ramsey elected next chair of Board of Trustees, VP Blumer retires

2/1/07

• Elliot School to teach top ranking govt. officials with new contract

1/25/07

• Grade inflation on the rise

1/22/07

• Treating VIPatients: How GW Hospital handles their most prominent patients

12/11/06

• Academic funding distributed to schools
• Faculty senate approves construction priorities, sets science center as #1

12/4/06

• Deans unsure of 4x4's full impact on schools

11/20/06

• SMPA professor suddenly resigns

11/16/06

• Medical School considers online doctoral nursing program

11/13/06

• Faculty to vote on 4x4 plan in April
• Faculty votes to delay 4x4 decision

11/6/06

• Engineering, education graduate programs under review

10/30/06

• Report shows higher than expected retention rate

10/26/06

• Business school ranked top of class for women

10/23/06

• Individual schools to consider four-by-four plan

10/9/06

• Academic programs may receive new funds this month

9/21/06

• Task Force on Advancement holds forums to debate GW's mission

9/5/06

• Univ. declines new translation program

8/30/06

• HOVA houses grads

5/15/06

• Faculty salaries rank in 80th percentile nationwide
• Task force recommends 4x4 plan

4/20/06

• Students pay their own way through GW

4/17/06

• Facebook denies rumors that it hopes to sell for $2 billion
• Faculty Senate report critical of 4x4 plan

3/6/06

• Task force to decide on 4x4 by April

3/2/06

• GRE changes to be delayed until Fall 2007

2/9/06

• Duqueses cut ribbon at Duques Hall

1/30/06

• WEB EXTRA: Post journalists discuss front page at library event

1/17/06

• Task force set to make 4x4 decision

12/8/05

• ISS combats rising number of phishing attacks

11/17/05

• Senior is only undergraduate to work in ICU

11/7/05

• Hospital lends helping hand in Pakistan

10/24/05

• Part-time professor unionization leaders spend Colonials Weekend informing parents of their cause

10/3/05

• AIDS walk raises $127,000 less than last year

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