Photograph showing banded quartz-pyroxene rock on Akilia. (Courtesy Martin J. Whitehouse, Swedish Museum of Natural History)

New Research Questions Evidence for Earliest Life on Earth

New geological and geochemical data call into question recent claims for fossil life on Earth greater than 3.8 billion years ago, say researchers from The George Washington University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History in the May 24 issue of the journal Science. Read

• Archaeological Journey Into the World of Chimpanzees Reveals Key Information

Colonials Win A-10 Tournament, Advance to NCAA's

Powered by three home runs in three games by Mike Bassett, right, the GW baseball team beat nationally-ranked Richmond on Saturday to qualify for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 10 years. This will be the seventh time in school history the Colonials will have a chance to advance to the College World Series. The team will play No. 7 seeded Wake Forest (44-11-1) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament this Friday in a 7 p.m. game in Winston-Salem, NC. Read

• Profile of Head Coach Tom Walter

GW Launches D.C. Home Program for Employees

GW has teamed with Riggs Bank, Fannie Mae, the nation’s largest source of financing for home mortgages, and the District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency to launch the “GW Home Program,” a new benefit that will provide eligible faculty and staff the opportunity to apply for down payment and/or closing cost assistance towards the purchase of a primary residence in the District of Columbia. Read

At left, D.C. Councilman Jack Evans joins President Trachtenberg and Councilman Phil Mendelson at the program's announcement Wednesday.

• James Starrs, LAW, Baltimore Sun, May 24
• Michael Moore, ESIA, Boston Globe, May 24
• Leon Fuerth, ESIA, Washington Post, May 21
• Lawrence Mitchell, LAW, Buffalo News, May 19

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