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
- Cases in Public Health Communication & Marketing
- International Affairs Review
- Journal of Health Communication
- Policy Perspectives: The George Washington University Journal of Public Administration
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
- “A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies,” by James Clark and Xu Xing (Nature June 18, 2009: Vol. 459 no. 7249, pp. 940-944)
- “Rescuing the bottom billion through control of neglected tropical diseases,” by Peter J Hotez (Lancet 2009; Vol. 373, pp. 1570–75)
- “Early Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints from Ileret, Kenya,” by Brian G. Richmond (Science February 27, 2009: Vol. 323 no. 5918, pp. 1197 – 1201)
- “Remarkable Resilience of Teeth,” by Paul Constantino and Peter Lucas (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 5, 2009: Vol. 106 no. 18, pp. 7289-7293)
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Faculty
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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.

