The semester will still begin August 31, but classes will be held online for the first two weeks at least due to the ongoing pandemic. On-campus students are asked to stay inside as much as possible.

Myron Ebell is heading the EPA transition committee.

According to a student, she was filming a documentary about race and identity in America.

The university issues a temporary ban on the explosion-prone fad.

A first visit to the campus of Gallaudet University is a pleasant surprise — a mix of historic and modern buildings dot the Northeast D.C. campus.

While campus plans for American and Georgetown Universities — the latter of which is apparently considering expanding into Northern Virginia to circumvent the wrath of its Advisory Neighborhood Commission — Howard University’s plans are rolling along. The University officially released its finalized decennial Campus Master Plan to the public today.

Based on current tuition rates, completing a four-year undergraduate degree at Georgetown University costs students and their parents slightly more than $160,000. Given such revenue, one would assume that the school might be able to employ someone to make sure “University” is spelled correctly on the cover of its commencement program.

Hilda Mason, 91, who served more than 20 years on the D.C. Council, died yesterday at Washington Hospital Center. The Post has an obituary up (which perhaps unsurprisingly but a little creepily appears to have been largely written some time ago, as it notes at the bottom that one of its authors passed away in 2006), which details Mason’s status as the grand dame of local D.C. politics, having served on the Board of Education,…

Over in academia, it’s finals time, but the receSs improv team over at George Washington University isn’t compromising their weekend, which will mark the group’s final show of 2007, over it. On their unofficial blog, The Colonialist, they’re offering up reasons why their peers shouldn’t either. In the past, receSs alums have gone on to pursue real-life comic gigs, including TJ Miller (now on the ABC show “Carpoolers”), Herschel Bleefeld (who landed a role in…

We’ve reached another Friday, D.C., but if those light flurries that accompanied you on your way into work this morning gave you visions of a leisurely Saturday snowball fight, you’ll likely end up disappointed. Very little accumulation is expected from these flakes, and the weekend will see temperatures back in the upper 40s, with a possibility of some light rain on Saturday morning, according to CapitalWeather.com. If this update doesn’t satisfy your weather nerd urges,…