August 27, 2009

At halftime of her team’s season opener against Towson Monday, GW women’s soccer head coach Tanya Vogel knew she had to make some changes. Her team found itself in a scoreless tie after having spent the previous 45 minutes jockeying for scant, fruitless opportunities to score and clearing out opposing threats in their own box. […]

A few weeks ago, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., made an impassioned speech on the floor of the United States Senate. In this speech, Gregg decried the waste of green road signs marking projects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Such signs, he informs us, are mere political statements and are constructed in vain […]

Julie Bindelglass is saying “goodbye sweet summer” and hello to a hot new year. The Student Association president gave Arts a peek at what she’ll be listening to when she arrives this fall. 1. Dashboard Confessional – Age Six Racer 2. Joshua Radin – Closer 3. Angry Vs The Bear – I Sing, We Sing […]

University President Steven Knapp spent the summer as many GW students do: working and finding time to escape D.C.’s legendary humidity. Knapp enjoyed a busy summer, participating in the GW Leadership Retreat, vacationing with his family in Utah and visiting his private farm in Sparks, Md., where he raises sheep. The retreat, which is held […]

View New GWorld Partners in a larger map Students will be able to get more use out of their GWorld cards this fall as eight more eateries accepting Colonial Cash have been added in the last six months. “The majority of us use our GWorld card to purchase food in one way or another. It […]

After temporarily vacating Smith Center for the past few months due to ongoing construction, GW’s men’s and women’s athletic teams will be officially moving into their new locker rooms Monday, Assistant Director of Athletics for Facilities Jason Wilson said Wednesday. The men’s water polo and men’s and women’s cross country teams already moved into their […]

In the midst of a bustling city in India, with streets full of cars, rickshaws and even cows, 15 GW graduate students washed away cultural and linguistic barriers this summer with little more than paint, brushes, chalk and a passion for the visual arts and psychology. For the past two summers, GW’s art therapy graduate […]

A GW chemist recently confirmed the basic premise of a study revealed last week that the presence of cocaine is very common on U.S. currency. Using a technique developed by a laboratory at Purdue University, GW chemistry professor Akos Vertes tested money for cocaine in a GW lab after local television station WUSA9 challenged the […]

A new “encyclopedia of journalism” is being released under the direction of School of Media and Public Affairs professor Christopher Sterling, and will include contributions from several other professors and SMPA graduate students. The encyclopedia will be a six-volume set of books covering print, broadcast, Internet journalism, U.S. and international perspectives, history, technology, legal issues […]