December 1, 2005

GW will spend the next two years training first responders in the event of a terrorist attack after receiving a $4.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. GW was one of 267 institutions and organizations vying for a share of the $30 million in the 2005 budget for the Department of Homeland […]

While some label the conflict between GW and the community as the typical “town-gown” dispute that would happen at any university located in a city, none of the college communities in the District view the schools in their neighborhoods with the same level of animosity Foggy Bottom has toward GW. When it comes to GW’s […]

D.C. resident Allison Wolfe said it was the diversity of the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, located in Northwest between 16th Street and the National Zoo, that persuaded her to move there about 10 years ago. But now she said a real estate boom in the area is starting to push out the minority residents. A look […]

It’s 12:45 a.m. on a weeknight, and sophomore Lisa Ramodhar sits at a round table with two of her friends on the fourth floor of Gelman Library. To her, the night is still young, and sleep is nowhere in sight. “I sleep one and a half to three hours every night,” Ramodhar said. “I figure, […]

As a modern rock opera appearing on Broadway, Jonathan Larson’s Rent sets such contemporary issues as AIDS, poverty, sexual orientation and relationships against the background of eight struggling “bohemians” in New York’s East Village. It also addresses questions we all ask ourselves, such as “What am I doing with my life?” and “Who do I […]

Six years running, second-year graduate student Will Alexander has never paid a dime of tuition to GW. Alexander, who graduated in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, received four years of free tuition through a GW scholarship for D.C. high school students. Now, as a presidential administrative fellow, he’s earning an MBA – […]

GW will house an American-style bistro in the vacant Quigley’s building at 21st and G streets after concluding an extensive search for a vendor, University officials announced Tuesday night. The bistro, called TONIC Restaurant, will be based off another TONIC located in Mount Pleasant in Northwest D.C. GW alumnus Jeremy Pollok, a co-founder of the […]

The edgy MTV cartoon “Aeon Flux” was known for its hyper-stylized setting and its eponymous character, whose outfit left little to the imagination. The show amassed a cult following, and the studio began planning for a movie. Finally, after years in development hell, the show was adapted into a live-action movie, with the main character […]

Matthew O’Gara, a GW lecturer in the University Honors Program and the Elliott School of International Affairs, was named the 2005 District of Columbia Professor of the Year last month. “It’s rather humbling to win an award of this magnitude, especially given that GW is full of excellent teachers and many could have (been) selected […]

The University has finalized a sexual harassment policy after nearly five years of having an interim document in place. Susan Kaplan, associate vice president of human recourses, said the new policy resolves unclear procedures and ambiguous sections from the interim policy but contains no major changes. “Frankly what is most important to us is the […]