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By Kaysha Gurell THEATER: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Shakespeare Company, and George Washington University kick off their second annual Sort-of-Jane Austen Reading Series, a festival of staged readings highlighting plays and poetry by historic and contemporary women of t...

By Aaron Morrissey Mary Cheh is a smart lady. She's got tenure at George Washington University Law School and has a master's degree from Fair Harvard. That said, it was slightly mystifying to read the following, located about halfway through an interview Cheh gave to the Washington Post magazine. Cheh's gee-...

By Sommer Mathis WMATA is holding a big launch event for the media at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow morning at the Judiciary Square station, with General Manager John Catoe, Board Chairman Jim Graham, WMATA's tech team and reps from all four cell companies expected to be on hand.

By Sommer Mathis Briefly Noted: D.C. Police Chief freezes hires in the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit ... D.C. gas customers facing a monthly surcharge ... D.C. store clerk shot while trying to assist customer who was being robbed ... Md. boy struck, killed by Amtrak train ... Man attacks George Washington University grad stude...

By Aaron Morrissey Photo by caroline.angelo. Good morning, Washington. Fall is rapidly decending on D.C., and that means more police activity on the campuses of area universities. Yesterday, it was George Washington University. It's been a busy 24 hours for security personnel in Foggy Bottom: first, with the a...

By Sommer Mathis Photo by Nivad Back in August, WMATA announced that the first phase of the Congressionally imposed expanded cell phone network inside D.C.'s Metro system would be completed by October 16. That date, by which time Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, AT&T and T-Mobile customers should al...

When George Washington University music professor Kip Lornell teamed up with former Experience Unlimited (EU) manager Charles C. Stephenson to introduce academia to D.C.’s primary musical export in 2001’s The Beat , go-go blasted through boomboxes held by guys selling mixtapes out of c...

Washington, Sep.23 : The game of cricket, it seems, is picking up in university campuses in the Washington D.C. area.

Use any cliché about fatigue you want, but three matches in a 24-hour window will take a toll. Ball State University clashed with the University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University and Towson University in the Towson Invitational in quick succession.

Thrilling, extra time, and a monumental rally by Ball State University women's volleyball team are all words to describe the first set against George Washington University. The one important word, win, was missing.

By Sommer Mathis Breaking right now from the Washington Times: Former Vice President Dick Cheney is at The George Washington University Hospital this morning to undergo elective surgery on his spine. Cheney visited GWU Hospital something like 643 times over the course of the Bush administration, typi...

By Rob and the Jewish Student Association are pleased to offer Traditional Conservative and Reform services on campus for students, alumni, parents and friends. Our services are led by dynamic, trained leaders and all services are egalitarian. HIGH HOLIDAY DATES:

By Sommer Mathis Photo by lorigoldberg Verizon Wireless customers in Washington are soon going to have precious little left to brag about to their friends with other cell phone companies. Metro today released the first part of its schedule for installing expanded wireless service in the system's under...

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By Sommer Mathis Heads up, local George Washington University alumni: D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray now represents you in more ways than one. The university's Alumni Association announced that they have selected Chairman Gray to receive one of the University’s Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awar...

 United States The finalists from GWU -- where a sophomore died this year from acute alcohol intoxication -- said research suggests that those kinds of warnings don't work. They tried to persuade friends to step in, figuring that friends are most likely to be there ...

By Graham Hough-Cornwell gt;>Missouri-by-way-of-Brooklyn group White Rabbits made a little publicized stop through the District last month as openers for Spoon’s set at George Washington University (Britt Daniel produced their second record, the strong, melodic It’s Frightening). They’re back this t...

 DC dorms at Georgetown or [George Washington University] or in the townhouses in Georgetown," he says. Luckily for those who don't live within walking distance, multiple Metrobus lines that service Georgetown, GW and Foggy Bottom stop on that block, ...

 DC By Dick Heller | Monday, May 11, 2009 This was at a George Washington University football game in the 1960s, and beat writers Dick Slay of the Evening Star and Byron Roberts of The Washington Post were somewhat the worse for wear after a spirited spell ...

By Sommer Mathis The official press release from the District regarding the two probable cases of swine flu at George Washington University is below. Unlike the Obama advance guy and the World Bank employee, both of whom live in Maryland, these two cases are being counted in the District proper. Note that t...

By Andrew Wiseman Here's some news that will not make GWU alums proud of their alma mater: the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity apparently used abrasive laundry detergent to lubricate a Slip-n-Slide at a charity event this weekend, sending at least one sorority member to the hospital with chemical burns and sev...

 VA She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and Spanish from the University of Richmond, a master's degree in human resource development from George Washington University and holds Stanford Advanced Project Management certification. ...

After the next GWU hitter made an out, freshman outfielder Jane Savage hit a slicing line drive down the right field line for a triple, which plated Walls and put the Bulldogs on the board. Junior Ashley Whitlock then drove in Savage from third on a ...

 DC Tom Heath's "Value Added" column has moved here on Sundays but he sent us this account of a recent business competition at the George Washington University School of Business. I spent my morning this past Saturday watching the Final Four. ...

 United States Washington, DC: Can you talk a little bit more about the kinds of things you teach in your class? I'd be interested to hear more about it. Will it happen again next semester? Is it open to non-GWU students?

 TX Sanders transferred to Gardner-Webb University, where he was named Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year for the 2007-08 season after becoming the first GWU player in 20 years to average a double-double (18.1 points and 10.8 rebounds per game). ...

 United States By her own account, the 21-year-old George Washington University senior has been pushing herself for years -- to earn good grades, hold down jobs and internships and join the leadership ranks of her sorority. So when Krissy was assigned to analyze her ...

By Aaron Morrissey Photo by Shermeee used under a Creative Commons license. It was refreshing, if only for one moment, to read this morning's news and find a story that actually made this curmudgeonly writer smile: the Washington Times picked up the AP report from a surprise ceremony last night at the Duke El...

 DC The George Washington University School of Business is simply too good to pass up. First, there’s hometown Washington, DC, with its international flavor and job opportunities. In addition to a popular program in international business, GW offers ...

 United States There's not much in the way of live music in Foggy Bottom -- especially not what you'd expect with George Washington University and all the nearby college drinking dens. That's changing with a new partnership between Tonic at Quigley's Pharmacy and the ...

Even with much of the fine print still unwritten, a steady stream of private colleges, including Drew University in Madison, NJ, George Washington University in Washington, DC, and St. Francis University in Loretto, Pa., have announced that they also ...

The conferees were led by Jordan J. Cohen, MD, President Emeritus of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and currently Professor of Medicine and Public Health at George Washington University. "The overarching theme that coursed through ...

By Sarah The George Washington University President’s office has generously financed the Free Arabic program at the GWU Hillel for the last seven years. In light of the financial crunch effecting national endowments invested in the stock market, the university will be unable to finance the non...

By Aaron Morrissey Vox Populi led us to this report in the Hatchet about one professor's desire to crackdown on the use of laptops in classes at George Washington University. On the one hand, it might not be a bad idea to dissuade students from using "Facebook, video-chatting and instant messaging" during le...

By Sommer Mathis I am very excited about the opportunity to teach at the GW School of Public Health; I look forward to sharing our experiences in the District of Columbia with the students," Catania said in a statement. "The number and complexity of the health care challenges that we confront in the Distric...

By Sommer Mathis GWU Democrats Apologize for Defacing Crosses: Susan Kinzie in the Post, following up on a Hatchet story, reports that George Washington University's College Democrats are apologizing for the vandalism of a set of crosses that had been used in an anti-abortion demonstration. The 1,100...

By Jennifer Bandy Dartmouth College's infamous "D plan" has been the subject of an interesting exchange in the Boston Globe this month. George Washington University professor Charles Karelis and former GWU President Stephen Trachtenberg discussed the wastefulness of the normal university schedule...

Attorney General Michael Mukasey, accompanied by his wife Susan, leaves George Washington University Hospital in Washington, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. A Washington State Supreme Court judge has admitted that he was the one who stood up and yelled "tyrant!" at U.S. Attorney General Michael M...

By Sarah Lai Stirland This March at a telecom policy conference in Hollywood, for example, Crawford bluntly told Ambassador Richard Russell, the White House' associate director on science and technology policy, that he lived in a fantasyland when he asserted that the United States' roll-out of broadband...

By Ashley Carufel For students with a flicker of political fire and an appreciation for all things American, this was the night they dreamed about when filling out an application to The George Washington University. GW students gather in front of the White House. (Photo: Shameek Patel)

By Thomas Schaller It means "hope" is not a four-letter word ... but "Bush" is. Sean Aday, associate professor of media studies, George Washington University It means the North has won the Civil War. Harold Meyerson, Washington Post columnist and American Prospect editor at large

By Avery Meltzer Second Chance Employment Services is a Washington, D.C. headquartered non-profit that was the first organization in America to promote financial independence for victims of domestic violence through comprehensive employment-placement services. Following is an interview with Sec...

By Heather Goss Happy Halloween, Washington! We suspect many of you will be headed out early today to dress up the tots and head out on the quest for candy, so expect rush hour to begin earlier than usual today. If you plan on driving through Georgetown after 6 p.m., WTOP has a long list of road closures for tonig...

By 37signals The Chronicle of Higher Education is looking for a Web Developer (LAMP) in Washington, DC. The George Washington University Department of Health Policy is looking for a Web Communications Specialist (Research Associate) located in Washington, DC.

By Joel S. Hirschhorn The latest bipartisan George Washington University Battleground Poll rightfully received media attention because of its depressing data. There is historic political pessimism and cynicism. But something is more troubling than the data on the dire views of Americans about their elec...

By Al Eisele Thirty-five years after losing a landslide election to Richard Nixon and winning only one state -- Massachusetts -- that branded him as one of the biggest losers in American politics, George McGovern claimed his place in history as one of...

By Amitai Etzioni This piece first appeared in Haaretz. Amitai Etzioni is a professor of international relations at The George Washington University. His latest book, Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy, was just published by Yale University Press.

By Lindsay Gibson American University administrators are taking a second look at their emergency response plan, which was revised this March. In addition, student leaders support a proposal for a text messaging alert system, saying it's a more rapid, efficient way to reach the maximum amount of student...

By Kathleen Sullivan George Washington University student Jordan Nott was depressed and sought medical treatment at a nearby hospital after his friend had committed suicide. While there, he got a letter from a GWU administrator saying Nott's "endangering behavior" violated the code of student conduct. He...

By NYC Press event at the IMF A view of the rally at the World Bank Another view of the rallyThe Call from Nairobi In addition, World Bank staffers are so outraged that they booed and hissed Wolfowitz when he tried to address them to apologize! Saturday 4/14 – World Bank, Out of Congo!