With so much brainpower under one roof, unique collaborations and new discoveries are just one experiment—and one elevator ride—away at the new Science and Engineering Hall. The state-of-the-art building represents a giant leap forward in core lab facilities, resource capacity and teaching space, and its impact is already being felt. Read more.

REDIchip, a palm-sized chip technology invented by chemistry’s Akos Vertes, can analyze previously undetectable minute traces of contaminants and diseases. Rapidly identifying these biological and chemical threats has widespread implications for drug development and early disease detection. Read more.

It has been a banner year for research grants at Columbian College. New awards are funding everything from scientific examinations of turtle ant colonies and orb-weaving spiders, to investigations delving deep into the cells of developing embryos and the brains of people with schizophrenia to research projects from Africa to outer space. Read more.

Sociology’s Daniel E. Martínez has been named director of the new GW Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute. The Mexican American scholar will guide the institute through its inaugural year as it addresses under-matching and helps deserving students gain the leadership skills and confidence needed to graduate from selective universities. Read more.

We note with regret the passing of Professor of English and American Studies Jim Miller. An engaging scholar, teacher and author who focused on African American literary and cultural studies, he is remembered as a mentor who was generous with his time and wisdom. Read more.

The D.C. bug bit Greg Nelson, BA ’78, in high school, when he was captivated by the Watergate hearings. Scholarships helped him realize his dream of studying economics at GW. Since then, Nelson has shown his gratitude by supporting GW with an annual gift for nearly 30 years. Read more.

Jacqueline Drayer, BA ’15, has been a Luther Rice Fellow, an Enosinian Scholar and a magna cum laude graduate with an American Studies degree. Now she’s won a prestigious Fulbright Research Grant. She will travel to Belgium to study art museum architecture. Read more.

When Marissa Moran, BA ’10, hit a snag in her job search, she turned to fellow GW alumni for help. Through networking opportunities and alumni gatherings, she met Tracy Williams, BA ’83, a Colonial colleague who connected her with a dream job in communications. Read more.

Roy Richard Grinker published the article “Notes on a Puzzle Piece” in the online journal Autism.

Eric Grynaviski won the American Political Science Association's 2015 Jervis-Schroeder Best Book Prize for his book Constructive Illusions: Misperceiving the Origins of International Cooperation (Cornell University Press, 2014).

Oleg Kargaltsev was awarded a $58,925 grant from the Smithsonian Institution to investigate x-ray counterparts of puzzling Gev-Tev sources.

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• 2015 LGBT Health Forum: Accent on the "T"
• Info Session: MS in Applied Economics
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