Nobel AmbitionFor new GW faculty member Ferid Murad, winning the biggest prize in science has meant dedicating himself to fostering future laureates.The spell of restless nights had fallen, like clockwork, upon Ferid Murad during the early days of October 1998. It had been this way each October for a couple of years, ever since the murmurs began that his name was on the lips of his peers at such an auspicious point on the calendar. Read more > |
Honoring a District Institution
In the middle of a July night in 1969, standing outside a faceless building along Florida's eastern coast, three men in bright white spacesuits strolled by, a few feet from me—on their way to the moon. Read more >
A museum that will include memorabilia documenting the rich history of the nation's capital will soon be erected on GW's Foggy Bottom Campus, thanks to the generosity of Albert H. Small, one of the nation's foremost collectors of historic documents. Read more >
For more than 20 years, David Silverman, MA '87, had two 9-foot-long fiberglass pinball flippers on the front porch of his home in Silver Spring, Md. With no room for display, plants sat on top of them. Read more >