GSEHD receives $2.4 million grant on civic education
The Graduate School of Education and Human Development received an over $2 million grant to spearhead a forum to boost civic engagement in U.S. public schools, according to a University release...
View ArticleMilken researchers link nurse overtime, patient pressure ulcers in hospitals
Hospitals that rely on nurses working overtime have an increased risk of patients developing pressure ulcers, according to a study published this month by researchers at the Milken Institute School of...
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MFA rebrands to GW Medicine from ‘inside out’
The University’s medical arm is taking on the name of GW Medicine. Medical Faculty Associates spokesperson Anne Banner said officials are rebranding the MFA, a network of physicians who teach at the...
View ArticleGW named founding member of science nonprofit partnership
Officials announced last month that the University joined a leading scientific research nonprofit as a “founding institutional member,” a move officials said will better connect GW researchers with...
View ArticleMilken researchers map pollution rates in urban areas, examine public health...
GW researchers used geospatial datasets collected between 2005 and 2019 to track global air pollution levels in urban areas and support efforts to reduce emissions, according to a study published this...
View ArticleGW researchers link active lifestyle to long-term reduced risk of diabetes
Researchers from the Milken Institute School of Public Health found that maintaining a lifestyle of weight loss and physical activity reduces the long term likelihood of at-risk adults developing type...
View ArticleCedar Hill chief operating officer to resign shortly after hospital’s opening
Vaughn Williams, who worked as chief operating officer at Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center, resigned effective May 30, the Washington Business Journal first reported. Williams has served since fall...
View ArticleGW signs open letter calling on Congress to reject NIH cuts
GW signed an open letter coordinated by the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research that requested members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committee block budget cuts to the National Institutes of...
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Health secretary misidentifies CDC appointee as current professor, GW confirms
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. identified one of his appointees to a federal vaccine advisory panel as a GW professor, but officials confirmed he hasn’t been affiliated with...
View ArticleGW ‘closely monitoring’ NIH research grant case after federal court rules...
A federal judge last week ruled President Donald Trump’s ongoing cuts to hundreds of National Institutes of Health grants for studies on health issues affecting minorities “void and illegal.” The...
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