April 26, 2010

Annual giving to the University is up 14 percent this fiscal year and more students, parents and faculty are giving back to GW than last year, a University official said last week. Spokeswoman for the Division of Development and Alumni Relations Patricia Danver said annual giving, which includes yearly cash gifts up to $25,000, have […]

Members of the University community and the Innovation Task Force discussed fifteen ideas that will try to enhance student life and streamline business operations at the second of three showcases of ideas Thursday morning in the Eckles Library Auditorium. The task force was created as part of University President Steven Knapp’s plan to identify opportunities […]

Little girls love to play with makeup, get dressed up and strut around the house with a new hairdo and a pretty face. Freshman Lindsey Brenner was the same way-only she took it a step further. Brenner runs her own business at GW, doing makeup and hairstyles for Greek-letter life formals and other events at […]

Monday Four-Footed Friends Members of GW’s faculty and staff will bring their pets for students to play with. Behind Merriweather Hall on the Mount Vernon campus | 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday Free jazz concert Check out a free performance from jazz pianist ELEW hosted by the English department. Phillips B-120 | 11 a.m. Finale […]

Looking back on her term as Student Association president, Julie Bindelglass called the job’s learning curve the biggest obstacle she had to overcome this year. As a result, Bindelglass – who hands the SA presidency off to Executive Vice President Jason Lifton Wednesday – said she took the summer trying to get set up for […]

As summer approaches, half-naked guys play football in University Yard, paper assignments pile up and talk of summer internships abounds. As this is GW, where internships are prevalent among students, many of us will be spending the next few months getting coffee and typing letters for bosses. And while interns are participating in something rewarding […]

D.C. councilmember Jack Evans discussed the District’s finances and explained the city’s $450 million revenue shortfall to concerned residents of the Foggy Bottom and West End communities at an Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting last Wednesday. Evans, a Democrat representing Ward 2, was in the race for chairman of the D.C. Council, but announced Friday that […]

The day before Duke faced Butler University in the final round of the NCAA March Madness tournament, many college basketball fans were focusing on a photo printed in the Indianapolis Star of Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski as a blue devil. But fans may have missed the news that NCAA officials were looking to expand […]