Understanding Freedom’s Price: Students Connect with D-Day’s Soldiers

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From classrooms and laboratories to treks around the globe, Columbian College scholars are curious, passionate, and engaged in finding answers to profound questions of our time. To learn more about our work, view the 2014 Arts & Sciences Research publication now available in print and online. Read more.

Understanding the Price of Freedom

In his Dean’s Scholars in Globalization history seminar on the Normandy campaign, Tom Long transports students into the lives of D-Day’s fallen soldiers. The class culminates in an emotional pilgrimage to their French gravesites. Long's students are calling the experience ‘life-changing.’ Read more.

Silenced by the Sea

For centuries, the legacy of sunken slave ships has been lost at the bottom of the ocean. Now, Stephen Lubkemann is part of an historic collaboration between African and American cultural institutions, and a team of international maritime archeologists trying to raise these stories from the deep. Read more.

Colonials Serve Communities in Need

How did you spend your spring break? These Columbian College students rebuilt homes in Kentucky, served at soup kitchens in Detroit, and promoted early childhood education on Oklahoma reservations. Read how Alternative Springbreakers made a difference around the country and the world. Read more.

Symposium Focuses on Confiscated Jewish Documents

The fate of Jewish artifacts during the Nazi and Soviet domination of Eastern Europe has long been a source of angst. The recent Fleischman Lecture—funded through a generous endowment to Columbian College and hosted by Poland’s Embassy—revealed how a long-lost archive was recovered. Read more.

Streetcar Noir: Exploring the Hidden Side of Cities

You know your city streets from the potholes to the subway stops. But did you know your town was shaped by traits that no longer exist? Following streetcars as her guide, Leah Brooks analyzed how the design and character of a city persist long after its iconic landmarks have faded away. Read more.

Alumna Wows Broadway with Peter Pan Prequel

While a student majoring in political communications, Eva Price, BA ’00, was bit by the theater bug. After graduation, she debuted her production talents on Broadway. Her latest hit, a new spin on Peter Pan, is taking the Great White Way by storm. Read more.

PAF Scholarship Seeds Alumna’s Bright Future

Greta Twombly had her heart set on studying at GW. Thanks to a Presidential Academic Scholarship, she was able to fulfill her dreams. Now, the political science alumna has followed her passions from campus clubs to Capitol Hill internships to national campaigns. Read more.

In the Spotlight

Sophomore Katherine Bradshaw, a Luther Rice Fellow, won GW Research Day’s first prize in the humanities category for her project on King Lear.

Eric Cline authored the book 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, which made Canada’s best seller list in the non-fiction category during its first week.

Marian Lee, BA ’76, wrote the children’s book The Lioness of Brumley Hall and Her Most Unusual Grandchildren, under the name Augusta Pearson Benners.

Graduate students Andrew Moore (Biology) and Cassandra Turcotte (Hominid Paleobiology) were selected as National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows for 2014.