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GW’s Response to COVID-19

Virtual instruction will continue for the spring 2021 semester. Learn more about our enhanced health and safety efforts as well as our response to COVID-19. For information and resources on COVID-19, visit the CDC’s website.

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GW Students Help D.C. Children Learn Social Justice

Zoom call with participants in the Summer Trek Program

Service is a core characteristic of the GW community and even a pandemic can’t stop the passion of our students. Through a partnership with Alice Deal Middle School, the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service was able to offer GW students the opportunity to support D.C. children interested in addressing community issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, racism and climate change.

NEWS AND EVENTS

GW Today, GW's official online news source

GW Plays Essential Role in COVID-19 Vaccine Approved for Emergency Use
- January 21, 2021
- The university served as a clinical trial site for the mRNA vaccine developed by NIH and Moderna, Inc., helping ensure the vaccine was safe and effective for a diverse population.
GW Researchers Explore COVID-19 Impact through Intramural Funding
Digital Collections Keep Student Research Alive
SEAS Professor Elected to National Academy of Inventors

STORIES FROM OUR COMMUNITY

Opening Ceremony; flags in background

We kick off our bicentennial celebrations with a virtual opening ceremony on Feb. 9, the 200th anniversary of the 1821 congressional act that established the university.

Throughout the year, bicentennial events will trace GW’s growth from humble origins to a comprehensive, global research university in the heart of the nation’s capital. In telling GW’s story throughout its 200-year history and into its future, celebrations will follow our journey from the first class of 20 students and six faculty members to a home for 27,000 students, thousands of faculty and staff, and more than 300,000 alumni worldwide.

Female researcher in PPE in lab

GW was part of the historic nationwide effort to develop and test a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine in record time, serving as one of 100 Phase 3 clinical trial sites for the mRNA-1273 vaccine the Food and Drug Administration approved for emergency use.

“Our participation in the Moderna Phase 3 vaccine trials has enhanced GW’s already-robust vaccine research effort and further highlighted our prominence among other research universities in the collective effort to address the largest global health crisis in modern times,” said Barbara Lee Bass, vice president for health affairs, dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and CEO of the GW Medical Faculty Associates.

"Thomas Buergenthal visited my Holocaust class @GWtweets today and I’ll never forget it. It was the first time in my life hearing from a Holocaust survivor directly. Research through text is one thing. Hearing directly from the person is another."

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