George Washington University

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.”

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…

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.

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.

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…

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

The public impeachment inquiry hearings that started Wednesday pit a Democratic attorney who built his reputation as a federal mob and securities fraud prosecutor against a GOP House Oversight investigator who helped steer some of the most notable probes of the Obama administration. The two attorneys with shiny resumes are hardly household names. Now, Daniel Goldman and Steve Castor find...

Two political supporters of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry secured a potentially lucrative oil and gas exploration deal from the Ukrainian government soon after Perry proposed one of the men as an adviser to the country’s new president. Perry’s efforts to influence Ukraine’s energy policy came earlier this year, just as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s new government was seeking military aid...

A News4 I-Team investigation found widespread frustration among teachers over cellphones in class, and some area schools are implementing tougher restrictions on mobile device usage.

For more than two decades a school has been teaching English to adults who moved to the D.C. area from other countries. Leon Harris reports. You can find information about helping Carlos Rosario Public Charter School here.

Consumer groups give many of the top restaurant chains in the United States failing grades for their policies regarding antibiotics used in their beef supply for burgers and other beef dishes, NBC News reports. The report is the result of a combined effort from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Consumer Reports and...