Read All About it: GW Arts & Sciences Magazine!

The 2023 GW Arts & Sciences Magazine is here! Read about the CCAS students, faculty and alumni who are making an impact in the classroom and around the world. For a print copy, contact ccasnews@gwu.edu.

Meet New GW President Ellen M. Granberg

In a video message, the university’s 19th president ushers in a new era at GW and commends the community for transforming lives and livelihoods through academics, research, and philanthropic support and service.

Cellphone Central: Smithsonian Exhibit Dials Into Research

With input from CCAS Anthropology scholars and students, a new exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History charts how cellphones have changed our lives.

Introducing New Columbian College Faculty

Columbian College recruited 26 new permanent full-time faculty members this year, adding teaching and research expertise across the disciplines.

Flying High: Alumnus Soars as an Aviation Photographer

Organizational sciences alumnus Ryan Patterson, BA ’22, MS ’23, is a sought-after aviation photographer. His unique top-down views of airplanes have taken off with photography fans around the world.

In Memoriam: Christopher H. Sterling

The CCAS family mourns the passing of Christopher Sterling, beloved professor of media and public affairs for 35 years and a namesake of the Manheim-Sterling Undergraduate Research Prize.

In Interactions with AI, Does Race Matter?

An interdisciplinary research team found consumers report higher satisfaction when interacting with a chatbot whose avatar is Black than when the same bot appears white or Asian.

When a Gamma-Ray Burst is the ‘Brightest of All Time’

Physics’ Brendan O’Connor led a study that explained how a massive cosmic explosion was so powerful that scientists dubbed it the BOAT—“brightest of all time.” 

Fang Jin (Statistics) received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. She was also awarded a $193,822 grant from NSF to develop a novel interpreting framework that enables humans to understand the decision process of complex deep neural networks.

Lenore D. Miller, MFA ’72, (Graphics) is curating the exhibition “Tony Sarg: Genius at Play” at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. Michael R. Harrison, MA ’97, (Museum Studies) and Darin E. Johnson, MA ’97, (Political Management) are also contributing to the exhibition.

Xiaofeng Ren (Mathematics) received a $288,446 NSF grant to study inhibitory long range interaction in pattern forming physical and biological systems.

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