GWUR
Digital Literacy and Remedying the Deepfake Epidemic
By Jenna Ahart In a two-minute video posted in April, TikTok user rache.lzh5 sat curled over her camera, hair tattered and speech...
top of page
Search
GWUR
Dec 20, 20234 min read
Digging up the Roots of Plant Sentience Debates
By Jenna Ahart Since sentience research began in the late 19th century, its definition has expanded to include previously unanticipated...
44 views0 comments
GWUR
Apr 12, 20223 min read
COVID-19 Necessitates Better Use of Mental Health Resources
By Emily Mosely It is no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic had major mental health implications on the public en masse. However, the...
16 views0 comments
GWUR
Nov 29, 20214 min read
Land of the Incarcerated, Home of the Underpaid: Looking at the History of Prison Labor
By Ben Chapman In October of 2021, a federal jury in Washington state ruled that immigrant detainees in a private detention center in...
29 views0 comments
GWUR
Nov 22, 20215 min read
Environmental Neglect, Land Dispossession, and Native Communities
By Jenna Ahart Alongside the prosperity of expansionism and industrialization in the United States came the tragedy of land dispossession...
46 views0 comments
GWUR
May 15, 20215 min read
Conspiracies in the American Political Imagination from Pizzagate to QAnon
By Jaylee Davis Conspiracy theories related to the US government are far from a new development. Particularly noticeable in recent memory...
64 views0 comments
GWUR
May 15, 20213 min read
Ocean Noise Pollution Has Devastating Effects on Marine Wildlife
By Eleanor Ball What do you think the “elephant in the room” is when it comes to climate change’s effects on the ocean? Rising sea...
9 views0 comments
GWUR
Feb 23, 20217 min read
Women soldiers are not the problem – standards are.
By Dhatri Badri “Why be behind when you could be in front?” an unnamed female private had asked Meghann Myers of the Army Times. She is...
23 views0 comments
GWUR
Feb 21, 20215 min read
Influence of militarism on science and technology
By Dhatri Badri How far will the military go with technology? The military, in most western societies, has frequently played an integral...
77 views0 comments
GWUR
Feb 21, 20216 min read
The Uncertain Future of AI and Human Rights
By Jaylee Davis A brief survey of the past twenty years demonstrates the exponential growth of technology. Since the turn of the century,...
72 views0 comments
GWUR
Jan 21, 20213 min read
Study Questions Environmental Impact of Healthy Diets
By Eleanor Ball It is a common assumption that as humans eat healthier, the environment will be healthier, too. However, a paper recently...
12 views0 comments
GWUR
Jan 3, 20218 min read
A Guide to the COVID-19 Vaccine
by Michael Farina As a nation, the United States is in the worst shape in terms of daily Covid-19 cases and deaths since the pandemic...
29 views0 comments
GWUR
Dec 30, 20205 min read
Imagined Communities in the Modern Era? Nationalism, Patriotism, and Ideology
by Jaylee Davis At a time when partisanship is at an all-time high, we often come to closely critique our national identity--what do we,...
54 views0 comments
GWUR
Dec 14, 20203 min read
Climate change leads to longer-lasting Atlantic hurricanes
by Eleanor Ball Extremely strong hurricanes seem to have become a mainstay of summer news over the last few years, thanks in part to...
12 views0 comments
GWUR
Dec 9, 20205 min read
CRISPR-Cas9 Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry—First Given to an All-Female Team
by Michael Farina Announced in early October, scientists Jennifer Duodna and Emmanuelle Charpentier have now received the Nobel Prize in...
18 views0 comments
GWUR
Aug 5, 20202 min read
OFFICIAL STATEMENT: Solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement
June 4, 2020 by The GW Undergraduate Review The George Washington Undergraduate Review stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter...
9 views0 comments
GWUR
Aug 5, 20202 min read
Read GWUR, Volume 3!
We are proud to present Volume 3 of the George Washington Undergraduate Review (GWUR)! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the physical version...
10 views0 comments
GWUR
Aug 5, 20202 min read
Lung Injury Outbreak Linked to Toxic Vaping Additive
by Eleanor Ball There has been a sudden upsurge in cases of lung injury associated with vaping, the Centers for Disease Control reports....
15 views0 comments
GWUR
Aug 5, 20204 min read
Feedback Culture: Competition or Cooperation?
by Janavi Kanagasundaram We’re all innately competitive beings. Be it fighting for a spot at a crowded mall parking lot, racing to...
10 views0 comments
GWUR
Aug 5, 20203 min read
HIV Vaccine Trial Fails, Disappointing Many Researchers
by Eleanor Ball For many epidemiologists, a vaccine for HIV is the biggest dream they have been chasing for years. A recent trial of a...
2 views0 comments
bottom of page