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News 4 Your Sunday: Taking Care of Our Bodies During Pandemic
News4’s Jummy Olabanji spoke with George Washington University Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Daniel Lieberman and Mary Gergely, George Washington Hospital dietitian and nutrition manager, about taking care of our bodies during the pandemic.
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News 4 Your Sunday: Taking Care of Mental Health
News4’s Jummy Olabanji spoke with George Washington University Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Daniel Lieberman about taking care of mental health during the pandemic.
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GW Doctor Speaks About His COVID-19 Vaccine Experience
A George Washington university hospital is sharing his experience with the COVID-19 vaccine, after he became one of the first to receive it in the D.C. area. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.
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George Washington University Teams Up With Community Organizations for Flu Clinics
To help more people get the flu vaccine in underserved areas in D.C., George Washington University is teaming up with community partners to provide free flu clinics. News4’s Juliana Valencia explains.
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GW Hospital Gives Send Off to Longest Running COVID-19 Patient
A D.C. man received a special send off after being released from the hospital. Eric Bell has been battling COVID-19 since June. News4’s Erika Gonzalez reports.
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GW Professor Resigns After Falsely Claiming Black Identity
George Washington University announced the professor who revealed online that she lied about being Black has resigned from her position. News4’s Aimee Cho spoke with a professor who’d been looking into her past.
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GW Professor Resigns After Falsely Claiming Black Identity
A George Washington University professor who apologized in an essay last week for assuming “identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim” resigned, the university said.
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GW Responds to Race Controversy
George Washington University is responding after a professor’s stunning admission. The school says Professor Jessica Krug will not be teaching this semester after she admitted in a blog post that for years she has passed as a black woman when in fact she’s white. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.
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DC Professor Apologizes for Falsely Claiming Black Identity
A George Washington University professor apologized in an essay Thursday for assuming “identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim.” Jessica Krug, a historian with a specialty in Africa and imperialism, said she had identified as North African, Black and Caribbean “when I had absolutely no right to do so — when doing so is the very…
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Jessica Krug: GWU Looking Into Blog Post Claiming Professor Pretended to Be Black
The essay attributed to a history professor says she is white and grew up Jewish in suburban Kansas City, but has “assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim.”
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GW to Conduct Clinical Trial for COVID-19 Vaccine
George Washington University in Washington, D.C., is among about 90 sites in the country that will conduct clinical trials on an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, the university announced Monday. The university will participate in a Phase 3 clinical trial of the mRNA-1273 vaccine, co-developed by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) scientists and the biotechnology company Moderna, Inc., GW…
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GW Seniors Make the Most of Virtual Graduation
Seniors at George Washington University watched their graduation ceremony online on Sunday. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to the class president who says the graduating amid the pandemic is one more example of how the 2020 class is resilient.
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Technology Shows Damage to Coronavirus Patient's Lungs
Virtual technology shows the damage caused to the lungs of a coronavirus patient at George Washington University Hospital. Doctors hope these scans will show how dangerous the virus is, and encourage people to maintain social distancing. News4’s Doreen Gentzler reports.
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First Student Diagnosed With Coronavirus at George Washington University
A student at George Washington University became the first at the school to test positive for the novel coronavirus, according to a statement released by the university. The student lives off-campus and is reportedly doing well. The student is following advice from public health officials and self-isolating since being diagnosed according to the statement. The university said it is working…
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DC-Area Universities Move Classes Online as Coronavirus Spreads
Universities across the D.C. area have announced that classes will temporarily move to online platforms as cases of the rare coronavirus spread. AU’s spring break will be extended through March 17, and the changes will go into effect March 18. Online classes will continue through April 3. “While the risk to our community remains low at this time, our precautionary actions...
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DC High School Senior Surprised With GW Scholarship
News4’s Cory Smith speaks to a high school senior at Howard D. Woodson High School in Northeast D.C. who just received a prestigious scholarship to George Washington University.
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American University Moves Classes Online as a Precautionary Measure Against Coronavirus
American University announced that all classes will temporarily move to online platforms following spring break as cases of the rare coronavirus spread in the D.C. area. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.
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Students Call for GW to Divest From Fossil Fuel Industry
George Washington University students are calling on the school to divest from the fossil fuel industry. Mark Segraves reports on a couple of incidents caught on video.
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Study Estimates That Half of US Adults Will Be Obese by 2030
There’s no way to sugarcoat this news: Nearly half of American adults will be obese within a decade and one-quarter will be severely so, a new report predicts....
...It corrects for a weakness in previous estimates that may have made the problem seem not as big as it really is. Those estimates often relied on national health surveys and people tend...
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Esper Defends $10B Pentagon Contract Disputed by Amazon
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday he was certain that the awarding of a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon was done fairly. The Pentagon awarded the contract to Microsoft in late October, and Amazon said there was “unmistakable bias” on the government’s part and it intended to challenge the decision in court. Esper recused himself...