When Jim Clark (left) was a boy, he hunted fossils with a friend in California’s Mojave Desert. The biologist still hunts fossils, but for the last two decades he has done it in more exotic places, like China, and his discoveries have contributed to one of the planet’s biggest collaborative science initiatives: The Tree of Life, a scientific effort to map the evolutionary relationships among all species on earth—all 1.7 million of them.
For generations, it was believed that most immigrants were people with limited education or training who came to the United States for economic opportunity. They landed in large metropolitan areas—New York, Los Angeles, Miami—and lived in inner cities until they could afford to move to the suburbs.
GW senior Corbb O’Connor has packed an incredible amount into his years in Foggy Bottom. From leading tours of the U.S. Capitol to working for Mount Vernon Campus Life, the political communication and economics major is taking full advantage of his time at George Washington. 
It’s hard to believe that an accredited music program was once unheard of at GW. While the University cultivated a band and a thriving choral group that performed for U.S. troops overseas, it wasn’t until 1960 that acclaimed violinist and chamber musician George Steiner arrived at the University to found a formal, degree-granting music program. Today, the department boasts a faculty of scholars and creative artists and a host of accomplished student musicians. On February 7, a celebratory free concert marking the department’s golden anniversary will be held at the Lisner Auditorium—all are welcome to attend.
Fragments of ancient frescos, illustrating a Canaanite connection to the mainstream Mediterranean world, were recently unveiled by Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures Chair Eric Cline and his counterpart, Assaf Yasur-Landau, of the University of Haifa in Israel. The two scholars led an archaeological team of students, faculty and volunteers on an expedition last summer to Tel Kabri—the site of an ancient palace in Israel—and presented their findings last month in New Orleans at a meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.Jazz Studies Director Peter Fraize released the new CD Organic Matter.
"Pacguy", mixed media art by Kenny George, MFA '08, is on display through Dec. 19 at D.C.'s Flashpoint Gallery.
Mary Hardesty Guindon, BA '63, edited the book Self-Esteem Across the Lifespan: Issues and Interventions.
French Professor Jocelyn Morel-Brant co-authored the latest edition of Interaction Langue et Culture.
French Professor Leah Chang has written the book Into Print: The Production of Female Authorship in Early Modern France.
Carl Davis, MPP '10, received the Marykathryn Kubat Award for Student Research from the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis. Named finalists were Brian Elderbroom, MPA '09, Matt Kazan, MPP '09, and Ashley Palmer, MPP '09.
Edited by Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, professors of Sociology (2009). The book is a compilation of writings from sociologists, housing experts, public policy leaders and others who take a broad look at integration policies over the decades, chronicling the successes, failures and the future of integration initiatives. 
Chad Heap, professor of American Studies (2009). Chad Heap's latest history book looks at "slumming:" the practice of whites traveling to nightspots frequented by minorities, and how it eventually transformed racial and sexual norms and attitudes throughout the United States. 
James Miller, chair of the Department of American Studies (2009). James Miller looks at the cultural repercussions from the infamous 1931 trial in Scottsboro, Ala., when nine black youths were convicted of raping two white women. The evidence was suspect and contradictory, but eight of the youths were sentenced to death. The case influenced authors, filmmakers and politicians, and still resonates years later. 
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