As head coach of Team USA at the Invictus Games, Aaron Moffett, BA ’99, combined his psychology training with his love of sports to help veterans overcome physical and emotional wounds.
Four CCAS astrophysicists are part of a global group of scientists who confirmed the first observation of a kilonova— two neutron stars merging in an explosive event 1,000 times brighter than a nova.
CCAS graduates CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, BA ’93, (pictured above with Dean Ben Vinson) and United Arab Emirates Minister Anwar Mohammed Gargash, BA ’81, MA ’84, were among the recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.
A summer internship inspired senior Aisha Azimi to cultivate her passions for storytelling and international advocacy. Now she is working with a nonprofit that supports female Afghan and Afghan-American writers and activists.
In the Sophomore Colloquium on the nature of children, Professor Jamie Cohen-Cole works side-by-side with a small group of students to explore the confluence of science and culture.
Exchange of ideas and cooperation between nations was celebrated during a four-day seminar co-hosted by Columbian College’s Regulatory Studies Center and attended by officials from eight Latin American nations.
Thomas J. LeBlanc will be formally installed as the 17th president of George Washington University during a November 13 inauguration ceremony that will bring together the university family, feature longstanding traditions and celebrate GW’s legacy while looking ahead to its future.
SMPA advisory board member and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd—a former CCAS student—came back to campus for Colonial’s Weekend to discuss the crumbling state of civility in politics and raising the bar on national discourse.
Lynne E. Bernstein is participating in a $312,352 Facebook-sponsored contract on enhancing speech learnability by optimizing how vibrotactile speech interfaces with the brain's speech systems.
Ira Lurie was awarded a $275,221 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the use of gas chromatography with tandem ultra violet and mass spectrometric detection for the analysis of emerging drugs.
Daniele Podini received a $492,892 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice for a project titled “Massively Parallel Sequencing of 89 Microhaplotypes for the Selection of an Operational and Effective Subset for Forensic Applications.”
