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10 Medical Schools That Leave You VERY Deep In Debt

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.24.2012

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Is $229,132 in student debt worth it? This is the question students must answer when they contemplate attending West Virginia School of Osteopathic...

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Brian Williams Explains His College Dropouts, Tells Grads To 'Take Us Somewhere'

Posted 05.22.2012

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WASHINGTON - NBC Nightly News anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams gave an address filled with a mix of humor and called on students to achieve m...

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WATCH: Hundreds Expected To Protest The World's Richest Man At Commencement Ceremony

Posted 05.18.2012

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On Sunday, nearly one thousand protesters are expected to join George Washington University's (GW) students and their parents at a commencement ceremo...

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Foggy Bottom Gets Regular Morning Explosions

Posted 05.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- If you ever wanted to feel like you live inside a horrible nightmare of a videogame soundtrack, George Washington University is about to...

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Street 'Collapses' Near Center Of GWU Campus

Posted 04.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The District of Columbia Department of Transportation reported Wednesday morning that the intersection of 22nd and H streets NW in Foggy...

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Mayor Tommy Battle Building a Sustainability Generation

Susanna Murley | Posted 04.19.2012

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Susanna Murley

One of the key areas where cities can promote sustainability is on the streets. By narrowing roadways and increasing the width of sidewalks, they can encourage more walking, higher population density as well as slow down vehicle traffic and generally make their streets more friendly to multiple types of users.

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CGI University 2012: Some Constructive Criticism -- The Necessity for a New Holistic Paradigm in the Humanitarian Field

Nikolas Katsimpras | Posted 04.04.2012

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Nikolas Katsimpras

Initiatives like this are desperately needed in our troubled times, but at the same time they should be promoting a change in a paradigm that has been tragically unsuccessful. It is time for self-assessment and constructive criticism.

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Gross Problem At Library Is Steamed Away

Posted 04.02.2012

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WASHINGTON-- A local gum-removing guru has spoken: George Washington University's Gelman Library is a daunting place to apply his specialized trade. ...

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Area Near White House Searched For Possible Man With Gun

The Huffington Post | Posted 03.06.2012

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WASHINGTON -- According to a text alert sent out to George Washington University students, staff and faculty Monday evening, the Secret Service report...

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Healthy Habits & Healthy Hearts

Ris Lacoste | Posted 04.25.2012

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Ris Lacoste

My mother passed away from heart disease in 2010 and it was a stark lesson that unless I started to get my heart and body in shape I may be headed down the same path. I dubbed my new personal initiative RIS Walk 60 -- daily 60-minute walks to the heartbeat of DC.

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GWU Kids Drive REALLY Nice Cars, We Mean It (PHOTOS)

Posted 02.24.2012

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Bill Gates would fit right in at George Washington University. The Washington D.C.' school's student newspaper, The Hatchet, readily admitsadmits i...

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Norovirus Sickens George Washington University Students

AP | Posted 02.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Officials at George Washington University in Washington are alerting the campus that about 85 students have been sickened by the norovir...

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Meet Markus Batchelor, A Young Leader From Anacostia

The Huffington Post | Megan Arellano | Posted 02.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sitting in a Foggy Bottom Starbucks on Sunday, a woman leaned over to ask Markus Batchelor his age. "Wow," she said when the George ...

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Churchill Library To Be Created At GWU

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 03.20.2012

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WASHINGTON — An international group seeking to preserve the legacy of Winston Churchill announced plans Thursday to create the first U.S. resear...

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How to Ace the College Interview

Jada Alexander | Posted 03.17.2012

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Jada Alexander

"So tell me, why the University of Chicago?" My interviewer, an alumni of the school, asked me toward the end of our conversation. Here's my answer to the million-dollar question.

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College Prep: 4 Reasons To Pick A City School

| Jamie Blynn | Posted 12.04.2011

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We’ve all seen the quintessential college campus portrayed on television. Whether you’re watching Greek or Van Wilder, it’s hard to miss the rur...

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Obama, Bono, Other Activists Call For 'Beginning Of The End Of AIDS'

Posted 12.01.2011

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The AIDS rate among minorities is on the rise and politicians and celebrities are determined to find a way to put an end to it. "The rate of new i...

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The Professor Who Wasn't There

Posted 01.08.2012

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Imagine this: Your professor doesn't show up to any of your classes and gives everyone A's. Sound like a dream (or a nightmare)? It really happened...

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You Won't Believe How Many Cans GWU Senior Collected

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 01.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Remember that Halloween food collection drive led by George Washington University senior Jake Stewart? It turns out his prediction for h...

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Christina Wilkie

Family Emergency: Clintons Stay At Dorothy Rodham's Sickbed Late Into The Night

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 01.01.2012

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UPDATE: 11:00 a.m. -- The Clinton family announced in a statement that Dorothy Rodham died early Tuesday morning. The full statement appears below. ...

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CUA's Same-Sex Dorms Not Stopping Students Having Sex

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Inside Higher Ed went to the Catholic University of America to find out how students are responding to the school's reversion to single-...

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Rachel Tepper

GW Student Leads Massive Trick-Or-Treat Food Collection

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Tepper | Posted 12.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- George Washington University senior Jake Stewart didn't know what he was getting himself into when he and a few friends went door to doo...

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#ThinkFWD on Campus Sustainability

Frank Sesno | Posted 12.26.2011

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Frank Sesno

To think forward is to take a good look at the present and then apply all of your ingenuity towards cultivating a better future. With the population rushing towards 7 billion and no magical cure to global warming on the horizon, we need ideas. And who better to ask than college students?

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Muslim Students Should Have Prayer Rooms Without Crucifix At Catholic University, Complaint States

Posted 12.28.2011

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A law school professor has filed a complaint with the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, alleging that Catholic University of America, a pri...

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Chelsea Clinton: 'One Of The Reasons I'm Most Proud Of My Father Is...'

Posted 12.22.2011

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When you put college students, technology and powerful activists in one room, real change is bound to happen. Chelsea Clinton and Christy Turlington ...

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