Campus News

Young Women Gain Hands-on Lab Experience: Apply by 5/11

GO GIRL (Genomic Opportunities for Girls In Research Labs) is an educational outreach program designed to provide a unique opportunity for young women interested in gaining hands-on laboratory experience in molecular biology and genomics. It is open to rising 10th, 11th, and 12 grade young women from Loudoun County Public Schools. This one-week summer program runs from June 11-14 and is free of charge for participants. MORE

GW Expands Advanced Nursing Education in Rural Virginia

Nurses living in the Shenandoah Valley will now have an opportunity to earn advanced degrees from the George Washington School of Nursing through a new partnership with Dabney S. Lancaster Community College. YouTube video
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Internationally Recognized Physicist Speaks on Campus

Dr. Rolland P. Johnson, an internationally recognized particle accelerator physicist, spoke on campus April 6 about his work in the development of Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor (ADSR) nuclear power plants, which have the capability to operate in an inherently safe mode, generate no greenhouse gases, and produce minimal nuclear waste with no byproducts. MORE

Campus Honors 10th District Congressional Exhibit Artists

10th District artwork submissions to the annual Congressional Art Competition sponsored by the US House of Representatives, Rep. Frank Wolf, are on display in Enterprise Hall. The national competition, featuring works from high school students, includes all congressional districts in the nation. Each district selects a Best in Show that will hang in the Cannon Tunnel of the U.S. Capitol for one year. The exhibit is open to the public through April 19. MORE

University Launches GW Experts Series

A new series of television advertisements showcases the research of GW professors, including engineering Dr. Azim Eskandarian, a transportation safety expert and director of GW’s Center for Intelligent Systems Research at this Campus. As part of his research, he studies drowsy and fatigued drivers to help develop systems to prevent crashes. Full Story

GW Named Research Partner in Toyota Automotive Safety Project

National Crash Analysis Center to lead computer-simulated testing for advanced crash-test dummy
The GW National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC), housed at GW’s Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn, Va., has been named as one of Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center new research partners. MORE

• Health Sciences (Pharmacogenomics)
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• Information Systems Technology
  June 16, 11 a.m.
  
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  June 26, 6:30 p.m.
  
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• A Degree of Security in Cyber Space--New master’s in cybersecurity aims to fill growing need to shield against attacks. Coming Fall 2012! MORE

• Research Space Triples at Virginia Campus
• New CRAY XE6m Enhances Efficiency and Speed of High Performance Computing Lab
• National Public Radio interviews Professor Pedro Silva, Civil and Environmental Engineering, about his research on building materials that might make structures more earthquake resistant.
• USA Today examines sleeplessness as a factor in road deaths and gets facts from Professor Azim Eskandarian, GW's Drowsy Driving expert.
• George Washington University Professor Develops Carbon Dioxide-Free Method Of Producing Iron
• Research Overdrive: Automotive safety expert Azim Eskandarian moonlights as a motorbiker.
• GW Hosts CHREC Workshop
  and Board Meeting
• When is it OK to Text and Drive?
• Fueling Innovation: A new grant will help GW experts model the safety implications of light-weight auto materials
• GW Energy Institute Growing
  to Meet Global Challenges
• It's No Accident: GW's Federal Highway Administration $19M Grant for National Crash Analysis Center Renewed