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Paul Tschudi, an assistant professor of health sciences and alumnus, died earlier this month in a house fire in the District.
News By Carly Neilson Apr 19, 2021 1:23 AM
Paul Tschudi, an assistant professor of health sciences and an alumnus of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, died April 7 in a house fire in the District. He was 73.
Tschudi joined GSEHD’s faculty more than two decades ago and served as the founding director of the school’s Grief, Loss and Life Transitions Graduate Certificate. Faculty and students who knew Tschudi said they will remember him as a “true collaborator” who was authentic and compassionate.
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All but one fire alarm triggered on campus in 2021 thus far has been related to an incident at District House.
News By Jarrod Wardwell Feb 22, 2021 12:09 AM
District House residents have been forced to evacuate their residence hall nine times since the start of January because of a string of fire alarms triggered by kitchen smoke.
University spokesperson Crystal Nosal said six alarms were set off in January followed by three so far this month, each of which have cleared out the entire residence hall. She said students’ cooking has caused every alarm during the period, twice triggering alarms on back-to-back days, which has forced students to evacuate while they’re trying to quarantine, isolate or distance indoors.
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The University is embracing nontraditional means of engaging with prospective students and alumni through three student campus vloggers.
News By Nicholas Pasion Feb 16, 2021 12:01 AM
Three students living on campus this semester are connecting with off-campus students, alumni and prospective students as the University’s official campus vloggers.
The Office of Student Life launched the “Connect to Campus” student video blog series last semester following Maansi Srivastava, Anne Laurie Joseph and Eddie Micheletti’s daily lives attending GW during the pandemic. The vloggers, short film makers who document parts of their life, said the program has helped current and prospective students learn about their life on campus during remote learning.
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On-campus students whose roommates test positive for COVID-19 have the option to move into empty rooms on campus, but no student used the option last semester, a University spokesperson said.
With residence halls filling up with doubles and some quads last month, students said they’ve had to either quarantine with roommates positive for COVID-19 or move into empty units to avoid catching and spreading the disease.
Since the fall semester, students who test positive for COVID-19 have been required to self-isolate for at least 10 days without leaving their assigned unit, while they receive mental health services and essentials like meals and groceries from nearby staff members. But with more students living together this spring, officials and students said some roommates who might be exposed to the virus are quarantining in separate rooms to cut down on transmission across campus.