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GW Research Publications

Learn more about the research, scholarship and creative activity of GW’s faculty members, research scientists and students:

Research & Discovery magazine of The George Washington University

SELECTED FACULTY AND STUDENT PUBLICATIONS

Selected Journals

Selected Books

  • America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11, by Jim Goldgeier, Professor of Political Science (Public Affairs, 2008)
  • Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Market Needs Regulation, by Naomi R. Cahn, John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law (New York University Press, 2009)
  • Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism, by Roy Richard Grinker, Professor of Anthropology (Basic Books, 2008)
  • Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940, by Chad Heap (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
  • The Laws that Shaped America: Fifteen Acts of Congress and Their Lasting Impact by Dennis Johnson, Professor of History of Political Management, International Political Consulting (Routledge, 2009)
  • Doubt is Their Product  by David Michaels, PhD, MPH, research professor and interim chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health (Oxford University Press, 2008)
  • Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World, by Marcy Norton (Cornell University Press, 2008)

Selected Journal Articles

 

The GW Experience

Students

All in the Family

Greg and Heather Hachenburg talk about their undergraduate experience at GW, one of many sibling pairs to share in the Colonials legacy.

Creating Next Generation Leaders

GW program helps female students connect with leading women across a variety of fields and develop their roles as future women in leadership.

Where the City is a Classroom

Freshman volunteers experience life beyond Foggy Bottom...

Faculty

Fighting Neglected Diseases

GW professor works to eradicate diseases that affect the health, education and economic development of the world's poorest people.

Building the Super Computer

Pioneering lab puts GW at the forefront of high-speed computing and offers GW students unprecedented access to science and skills of the future.

Blast From the Past

Students map an ancient—and dramatic—eruption as part of a geological research program in the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains.

Alumni

Giving Back to the District of Columbia

D.C. public health director calls GW education the foundation of his career.

GW Opens Doors

A chance encounter with a GW alumna helped give one GW undergraduate, an aspiring broadcast journalist from Texas, his big break.

The Legend Lives On

The $2 million bequest commitment caps a lifetime of philanthropy and service to GW, establishing the Elyse B. and Donald R. Lehman Endowed Professorship in Theoretical Physics.