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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
A selection of this month’s GW events—neighbors welcome!
APRIL 2015
TEDxFoggyBottom
FRI
Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St., NW
3
GW SPORTS
APR.
More than 1,500 people from around the Foggy Bottom and DMV community will gather for
an all-day experience of live presenters and performers, interactive exhibits and collective
9 A.M.
collaboration. All talks and aspects of the conference will be centered around this year’s
theme of “Be Rebellious,” with more than 20 speakers and presenters. Tickets for TEDxFoggyBottom
2015 can be purchased for $20. For more information, please visit www.tedxfoggybottom.net.
Jewish Lit Live: Michelle Brafman
THURS
Marvin Center, 800 21st St., NW
9
APR.
GW’s English Department proudly presents the spring 2015 schedule for Jewish Lit Live
(JLL). All events are free and open to the public and take place in the GW Marvin Center with
7 P.M.
first-come, first-served seating. As the author or her debut novel, Washing the Dead, Michelle
Brafman’s short fiction has also received special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology,
and she has written essays and stories appearing in Slate, the Washington Post, Tablet, Lilith Magazine,
the Minnesota Review and numerous other publications. She is currently working on a third book of
fiction, a novel titled Status Change. JLL is made possible by the generous support of David Bruce
Smith, B.A. ’79, a member of GW’s Board of Trustees and an alumnus of the English Department.
GW WOMEN’S
LACROSSE
April 3 at 4 p.m.
GW BASEBALL
April 10 at 3 p.m.
April 10 at 4 p.m.
v Dayton
Share Fair STEMosphere
SAT
v St. Bonaventure
Charles E. Smith Center, 600 22nd St., NW
11
v Saint Joseph’s
v Richmond
April 17 at 4 p.m.
v Duquesne
April 19 at noon
Share Fair Nation, a celebration of cutting-edge teaching and learning tools, is a free
two-part event for educators, students and communities to come together with the
leaders in education innovation. Sponsored by the Morgridge Family Foundation
and hosted by the GW Graduate School of Education and Human Development in partnership
with the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Share Fair Nation creates opportunities for
people of all ages to experience teaching and learning outside the classroom and to explore,
invent and experiment. For more information, please visit www.sharefairnation.com.
APR.
ALL DAY
GW Science and Engineering Hall, 800 22nd St., NW
23
FRI
Gilberto Gil: Gilbertos Samba
Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St., NW
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April 17 at 3 p.m.
v Fordham
April 18 at 1 p.m.
v Fordham
April 8 at 2 p.m.
v Towson
April 8 at 4 p.m.
v Coppin State
April 11 at noon
GW MEN’S TENNIS
April 4 at 1 p.m.
v Cornell
v George Mason
APR.
Join the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science for the annual Frank Howard
Distinguished Lecture, which explores biomedical advances in cardiac treatment with Natalia
6:30 P.M.
Trayanova, Ph.D., the inaugural Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns
Hopkins University. Heart disease is the number one killer in the industrialized world, due in
large part to heart rhythm dysfunction and the development of arrhythmias. Yet the treatment for a common
arrhythmia—the fast rhythm which accompanies a heart attack—currently has a success rate of only 50 to
70 percent. The odds could be improved if treatment were tailored specifically to the configuration of
the patient’s own heart through the creation of a personal virtual heart. A reception follows the lecture.
April 12 at noon
v Dayton
v Fordham
v George Mason
THURS
April 11 at 1 p.m.
GW SOFTBALL
April 1 at 3 p.m
v Saint Louis
2015 Frank Howard Distinguished Lecture: Your Personal Virtual Heart
v Dayton
April 11 at 2 p.m.
v Saint Louis
April 19 at noon
April 28 at 3 p.m.
April 29 at 3 p.m.
v UNC–
Wilmington
April 5 at 9 a.m.
April 12 at noon
v St. John’s
April 15 at 3 p.m.
v University of
v Saint Louis
v Coppin State
April 21 at 3 p.m.
v Georgetown
April 12 at 2 p.m.
Maryland,
Baltimore
County
April 18 at 3 p.m.
v George Mason
Come support GW. For locations, tickets and
more information, contact GW Athletics at
202-994-6550 or visit www.GWsports.com.
APR.
8 P.M.
Gilberto Gil’s illustrious career spans
four decades with over 30 albums released, multiple Grammy Awards won, six gold records,
four platinum singles, and more than five million records sold. As a singer, guitarist, composer
and diplomat, Gil plays a key role in the modernization of Brazilian popular music and culture
throughout the world. Addressing a wide variety of issues in his lyrics—from social inequality to
the racial question, from African to Oriental culture, from science to religion—the mastery with
which Gil explores these subjects makes him one of the greatest Brazilian lyricists to date. Tickets
can be purchased by visiting lisner.gwu.edu or by calling the box office at 202-994-6800.
Photo credit: Jorge Bispo
For more information on the GW Community Calendar, please contact Britany Waddell in the Office of
Government and Community Relations at 202-994-9132 or visit us at www.neighborhood.gwu.edu.
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