Get ready for the state fair - or at least GW’s version of one. Fall Fest 2007 will take place on Saturday September 8 with a state fair theme, according to a press release by the event’s sponsor, GW Program Board. Pop-rock band OK Go will headline the concert with openers Derek James, […]
Three Safeway supermarkets will accept Colonial Cash by the beginning of the semester confirmed Auxiliary Services, which manages the GWorld partnerships.
The locations include the Watergate Mall Safeway at 2550 Virginia Ave N.W., located near the Foggy Bottom Campus; the Mac Arthur Safeway at 4865 Mac Arthur Blvd N.W. near the Mount Vernon Campus; and […]
The George Washington University dropped another spot for the second year in a row in the latest college rankings from U.S. News and World Report, released this morning. However, the University did improve in its rankings for undergraduate business programs and student debt.
GW slipped to 54 on the prestigious […]
Incoming GW President Steve Knapp will live on campus when he moves to D.C. this fall, the University announced today.
Knapp will move into the Alumni House on F Street, making him the first GW president to live in Foggy Bottom since the University moved to the area in 1912.
With Knapp and his wife moving to […]
Edgar Bieber, the long-time Foggy Bottom resident known affectionately around campus as “Old Man Schenley,” died Thursday, May 31, the University confirmed. He was 96.
The former Oylmpic cyclist had been in George Washington University Hospital since May 7 after falling and breaking his hip, said close friend Annette Eliasberg. Complications from the injury led […]
Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Hillary Clinton will be on campus Thursday to “address high cost of health care,” according to a release by GW’s media relations.
The policy address will be held in the Jack Morton Auditorium at 8:30 a.m. According to a GW spokesperson, the office of University Events was contacted by the […]
Steven Knapp’s colleagues at Johns Hopkins University gathered last week to bid farewell to their provost, who will become GW’s president on 8/1. According to the Johns Hopkins Gazette, they “lauded his leadership, humor, commitment, intellect and crisis management ability,” in a ceremony that included both the JHU mascot, Blue Jay, and GW’s Little […]
Ready to channel your inner-geek or bimbo? There will be an open casting call for the CW Network’s reality TV show, Beauty and the Geek on Sunday, May 13 at 2121 Wisconsin Avenue NW, according to a press release from GW Media Relations. The show pairs attractive but unintelligent women with intellectual, socially-challenged men to […]
Saturday, May 4, will be our final day of regular publication for spring 2007. But stay tuned for monthly editions this summer, and breaking news coverage.
From Deputy News Editor Mark Abramson:
An early Monday morning fire at Eastern Market in SE caused severe damage to
the old brick building, leaving some local vendors without their businesses.
Firefighters said they responded almost instantaneously to the “box alarm”
that went off at the Market around 1 a.m.. Engine 18 was the first […]