Volume 111, Issue 15
Stories from the October 27, 2014 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Media Credit: Olivia Harding | Hatchet Photographer Muhsana Ali, a Senegalese artist, is part of a group of painters working on a mural on the exterior of The Phillips Collection for the museum’s International Forum Weekend. The gallery partnered with the Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies to showcase international modern art.
Media Credit: Anna McGarrigle | Senior Designer
GW is hoping a new in-house course design shop will prompt more departments to create online degree programs, which would help offset a $10 million budget gap caused by declining enrollment.
Obviously, stories about crime and security are always going to be more prominent than positive stories, both in the news and minds of students. But at GW, I’m thinking about safety more than ever before.
It’s the University’s job to inform us when serious crimes – the kinds of incidents that make us nervous to walk down a street alone – are reported on campus. And our school has let us down.
While it’s all well and good that these big names seem to think the hotline is a nice idea, in order to make any progress, we need a clear, tangible commitment to making the program happen.
Ali Çambel, a former professor who specialized in chaos theory in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, died this month. He was 91 years old.
More than $35 million was raised last fiscal year, which doubled the size of the scholarship fund. The program has grown each year since it started in 2009, bringing in a total of more than $100 million.
Only months into a partnership, one of GW’s leading researchers decided to move on, and took his Google project, nine graduate students and the $1.2 million grant with him across the country.
Drug Law Violation 900 Block of New Hampshire Ave. NW 10/14/14 – 9:20 p.m. Case closed University Police Department officers responded to the activation of an emergency blue light phone and discovered a man suffering from chest pains. Officers learned that he had been visiting a patient in the hospital and stepped outside to smoke […]