Imparting the Power of a Free Press

As an investigative journalist for 20 years, Mark Feldstein has been beaten, sued, threatened, carjacked, detained, and censored. He’s won shelves full of awards, including nine Emmys that line the bottom of a bookcase in his office at the School of Media and Public Affairs. But now he’s back to the basics at GW, teaching his first semester of undergraduate classes as a full-time professor. READ

The Board of Trustees Extends President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg’s Term Through 2007

President Trachtenberg, whose previous contract was expected to be fulfilled at the conclusion of the 2002–03 academic year, has served as president of the University since 1988 and has guided GW’s emergence as a major national research University. READ

• Full Trachtenberg Biography

• Trachtenberg Addresses Tunisian Parliamentarians

Planning a Safer GW

If you’re reading this in a building right now, then do you know where to find the nearest exit? Does your office have a supply of flashlights? Do you have extra prescription medicine in your desk? These are some of the questions GW community members should be able to answer as the University encourages employees and students to become more familiar with their surroundings and to follow the Boy Scouts motto of “Be prepared.” READ

• James Starrs, LAW, USA Today, Oct. 7
• Gordon Adams, ESIA, CS Monitor, Oct. 7

• GW In The News Recap

• A Faculty for Writing (Latest Books)

• Kudos (Awards & Acknowledgements)