As the academic year begins, Dean Ben Vinson celebrates the multicultural fabric of the CCAS community, the “remarkable breadth” and impact of the college and the value of a liberal arts degree.
A team of GW geography students and scientists traveled into the Siberian tundra on a mission to see first hand how climate change has ravaged a polar environment and changed people’s lives.
As a psychiatrist in the Middle East, Sami Badini helped heal the mental scars of torture. As an activist and a student in the forensic psychology graduate program, he is shining a light on abuse.
CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, BA ’93, and United Arab Emirates Minister of State Anwar Mohammed Gargash, BA ’81, MA ’84—both CCAS graduates—will be honored with the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.
A riddle at the heart of the atom is confounding scientists and suggesting a new model of physics. Evangeline Downie and an international research team are searching for a subatomic solution.
CCAS welcomed 27 new full-time faculty this year, bringing the number of full-time scholars to 497—and strengthening disciplines across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
A survey devised by Political Science’s Michael K. Miller and David Szakonyi to measure threats to our political institutions, found “significant warning signs” for the security of American democracy.
The Corcoran School has merged five CCAS arts departments with its legacy programs, and now consists of Art History, Interior Architecture, Music, Studio Arts, Museum Studies, Design and Theatre and Dance. The school remains a part of CCAS.
Gregory Asmolov, MA ’10, received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to research the role of digital platforms in crisis situations at the King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London.
History PhD student Brittany Lewis was crowned Miss Black America 2017.
Peter Nemes received a $1,890,151 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his work “Single-cell Metabolomics and Proteomics: The Missing Link to Understanding Vertebrate Embryonic Patterning.”
