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English Major Jessica Chace received a George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year. Like GW’s Luther Rice fellowships, the Gamow Fellowship supports an undergraduate researcher in ways that allow her or him to work closely with a Faculty Mentor.  The working title of Jessica’s research project is “The Humor Defense: Laughter as Therapy in Ken…

From the DC JCCHyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival September 14-24, 20008 What goes on inside the mind of a great author? Join us for the tenth anniversary Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival, September 14-24, 2008 and find out! Come meet a fascinating array of authors, including French philosopher Bernard-Henri…

If you are a sophomore or junior at GW, you should be. Information and an application form can be found here. An excellent magazine piece with video can be found here. The deadline is March 20 (during spring break, as it turns out) — but it is not too early to start on the application…

President Steven Knapp invites students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends  to AN EVENING WITH   TONI MORRISON   Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8-9 p.m. Lisner Auditorium 730 H Street, NW Washington, D.C. Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison will speak about her life and her work. The evening will include readings from Ms….

We know that title sounds gloomy, but we also know what the economy is like right now. We know that the paragraph which follows is going to make you say “I wish” and then go back to reading more amusing websites than this one. YouTube has some pretty good election-inspired videos. What about that Tina…

Our intrepid Front Office Student Worker, Sasha, somehow conned the department chair into opening a Twitter account under the name “GWENGL.” A series of tweets erupted yesterday, with more likely to follow. We consider this twitter twaddle to be a two week experiment. Most of what will be disseminated will be lies (we are a…