The department of nursing education may be separated from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and potentially form a new school by July 2011, a University official said on Monday. Jean Johnson, senior associate dean for health sciences, said “the strong and developed” nursing program is well prepared to make the transition. In November, […]
Traditional lecture halls and book discussions may be undergoing a change at GW, as top University officials are exploring how today’s students learn with technology and hands-on activities. Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Donald Lehman launched a 13-member teaching consortium task force last fall, which he said would discover the best ways to educate […]
There are seven representatives, five senators and a U.S. Virgin Islands delegate to Congress who can claim GW as their alma mater, but the similarities between the former Colonials end there as the alumni battled last fall over the controversial, but historic health care package. The bill passed on Dec. 24 in the Senate, and […]
Web Exclusive While many of their peers are spending spring break in the sun, some members of GW’s Jewish community will go to Israel for an alternative spring break to repair schools and buildings falling into disrepair. Unlike other GW alternative break programs, the Jewish National Fund, not GW, organizes the trip to Israel. Because […]
After nearly a decade of informal planning, the Department of Health Sciences may be separated from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and potentially form a new school for the next academic year, University officials confirmed last week. Senior Associate Dean of Health Sciences Jean Johnson said establishing a separate School of Health Sciences […]
Neither the School of Public Health and Health Services nor the Graduate School of Education and Human Development are currently in compliance with University policies regarding the number of full-time faculty in each school, but both are making strides to correct the problem, officials said this week. The faculty code requires that at least 50 […]
Web Exclusive Four School of Public Health and Health Services students placed first in the National Association of Health Services Executives Case Competition earlier this month for their work in devising a cost-efficient health care system. Second-year graduate students Tony Huynh, Laura Munroe and Angela Raphael and first-year student, Maha Sampathkumar – all from the […]
Web Exclusive School of Public Health and Health Services professor Jon Andrus was appointed deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization last month. The position gives Andrus a leading role in the World Health Organization’s Regional Office of the Americas, as well as a chance to “serve the underserved,” a task that he said […]
Web Exclusive Eric Cline, chair of the department of classical and Semitic languages and literatures, received a $15,000 grant from National Geographic this month for a potential dig in Israel this winter. The grant will fund a dig in Tek Kabri – a Middle Bronze Age site – but only if the Israel Antiquities Authority […]