GWU Takes Top Spot for Twitter Use

 

With the ever-expanding communications technology market, social networking sites such as Twitter have become constantly updateable. Faculty at George Washington University are taking advantage of this by using Twitter to keep students regularly informed about updates on campus. Averaging 58 tweets a day, according to the Washington Post, GW’s faculty have propelled them into becoming the most active campus for Twitter use. Menachem Wecker, a writer/editor at GW’s external relations office, helped bring Twitter into the limelight at the university by using the site to network with his co-workers. The obsession spread and now students at the university welcome the information provided by sites such as GW Today.

Back to Bethesda Festival Benefits the Children’s Inn

For most children the back to bethesda festival was all about fun and games, but for those staying at the Children’s Inn at the National Institute of Health, Saturday’s festival meant much more. 8-year old Matthew Devy, a relatively new patient at the Children’s Inn, has cancer, and flew all the way from Australia to Bethesda to begin treatment at the NIH. He says “you can never be bored” at the Children’s Inn and thats what keeps him so far from home. Although he doesn’t get to see his family as much, he says the children’s inn is very supportive and helps him during this tough time.

Surprisingly, the Children’s Inn isn’t just for children. 25-year old Eric Sartay, a Canadian patient has spent the last two years at the children’s inn. “The children’s inn is great” he says, “I’m 25 and I can still be there.” Sartay came from Canada when treatment options there failed and his doctor sent him to Bethesda for a transplant.

The back to bethesda festival offers visitors from all over the metropolitan area a day full of games and fun, but more importantly it offers the patients at the Children’s Inn a momentary break from a long struggle.

Swine Flu: Pandemic 2009

The 2009 flu pandemic may pail in comparison to other flu pandemics in history, but it is still a major health issue to populations around the world. Within this package, I focus on how the American University community plans to deal with the outbreak. With interviews from the health center director and a formerly infected student, the package presents the story from both the healthcare giver and those that have suffered already from the current outbreak.