Health & Research

Monday marks the end of GW’s classroom mask mandate, but faculty and students said the requirement largely went unenforced months before its removal.

Experts say record-breaking winter temperatures will push the District’s cherry trees on the path to an early bloom.

Nine of GW’s 29 buildings with academic and dining space that The Hatchet inspected carried the period product dispensers Thursday and Friday.

DC Heath will no longer supply COVID-19 self-testing kiosks and rapid tests to public libraries and senior centers starting Feb. 28.

Officials will require masks in University-owned medical facilities and mandate community members to wear a mask for 10 days after a positive COVID test.

Nurses at GW Hospital announced efforts to form a union represented by the D.C. Nurses Association, according to a release last Friday.

A Milken professor will continue a 30-year study researching the relationship between Alzheimer’s disease with prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes.

Leana Wen has argued U.S. hospitals are overcounting COVID deaths due to COVID and claimed masks can cause speech development delays among children.

GW is the only institution to still require masks in classrooms in the United States among all 229 universities that Forbes classifies as “large” and “urban.”

Health-related research accounted for about 67 percent of research expenditures in FY 2022, according to a report on GW’s research enterprise.