Universities

Howard University violated a federal safety rule by allowing a hazardous radioactive substance to be stored in one of its laboratories without permission, according to a letter from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Images from old George Washington University yearbooks unearthed this week show some people wearing blackface and others in the white hoods identified with the Ku Klux Klan.

The growing presence of out-of-town universities in Washington underscores what has been true throughout D.C. history: The nation’s capital is very much a college town.

Officials at American University are investigating the sighting of a man wearing a Confederate flag hoodie in a campus dining hall Thursday night.

Some Washington area universities are responding to the Department of Education’s proposed changes to a Title IX policy regarding sexual misconduct. The public comment period closed this week — and much of the local response is not in…

As the sun set on a chilly March day last year, close to 20 Georgetown University graduate students gathered on campus in Red Square. A local artist, Adrian Parsons, fiddled with a projector as the students huddled and fidgeted, looking up…

About this time last year, a Snapchat post landed George Washington University in national headlines.

Words like Wonk Cat, Lau, and Vex might not mean anything to some, but, to many D.C. college students, they’re a way of life.

Years ago, when Thomas LeBlanc was a professor, he had students with whom he was close. And he knew they couldn’t go home for Thanksgiving. So LeBlanc invited them to his home.

Hundreds of graduate students at Georgetown University have spoken: they overwhelmingly want to unionize.