In a video conversation with Dean Ben Vinson, Jody Ganiban discusses her NIH-funded efforts to predict and prevent childhood obesity. Are its roots in our young people’s genes—or their environment? View video.
A landmark award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will fund Akos Vertes’ team of researchers as they race the clock to head-off biological and chemical attacks. Read more.
Senior Mac Kimbum Lee’s gift to Peace Studies caps a soul-searching journey—from his native South Korea to his volunteerism in Africa to the inspiration he found in a Columbian College classroom. Read more.
In her new book, The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography, self-proclaimed ‘Pornoscholar’ Jennifer Nash explodes myths about black women and adult films. Read more.
Asianna Joyce rose above her family’s struggles with homelessness. Today, the inspiring Columbian College senior vows to “never be defined by circumstance.” Read more.
Forensic Sciences Chair Victor Weedn strengthened the department's pioneering work on DNA testing with a state-of-the-art lab and a new partnership with PerkinElmer. Read more.
Call it a Columbian College love story. Gillian & Noah Zachary met in class, dated on campus, and tied the knot as grads. Now the alumni couple are adding new layers to their GW legacies. Read more.
An enthusiastic and diverse crowd of faculty and students rang in the Lunar New Year to celebrate the "Year of the Horse" and GW’s commitment to global outreach and cultural exchange. Read more.
In the Spotlight
Karen Ahlquist has been named editor of The Journal of the Society for American Music.
Jason Osder won the Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award and a $25,000 grant for his film “Let the Fire Burn”.
Silvio Waisbord has been named editor of The Journal of Communication, effective January 2015.
