Thanks to Felisa Kahn and MaryKay Canarte, CCAS BA ’92, for sharing their story with us! Where did you meet on campus? I think first memories are in, of all things, chemistry class, lol!! What only-at-GW moment did you share as friends? Celebrating the end of semester at Milos pizza place!! And then going for […]
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Colonial Love Q & A: Jelle & Amanda
Thanks to Amanda Quintana, MSPH, MPH ’16, and Jelle Barkema, ESIA MA ’16, for sharing their story with us! Where did you meet on campus? We met off-campus at a campus sponsored event by the Elliott School GSF organization called TNOs or Thursday Night Out. It was my first time attending a TNO since […]
Colonial Love: Al and Lucy
Thanks to Alberto Pola, CCAS BA ’81, and Lucinda Pola, CCAS BA’ 81, for sharing their story with us! Sometimes, the universe works extra hard to bring two people together. Such is the case with Al and Lucy Pola, who, but for fate, would never have gone out on a first date. “On a spring […]
President of iHeartMedia Has Soft Spot for GW
In September of 1992, Darren Davis, CCAS BA ’95, a resident of Crawford Hall, received a phone call that would change his life forever. Radio WASH FM had accepted his application to work as an intern at the station. He reported to work the following Monday at 4:00 am, and within four weeks, he was […]
Alumnus Ted Schmitt Uses Big Data to Help Endangered Species
Alumnus Ted Schmitt Uses Big Data to Help Endangered Species Ted Schmitt, ESIA MA ’06, is not your average conservationist. A technology wizard living in Seattle and working for Vulcan Inc., Schmitt wields big data as a weapon in the fight to protect the Earth’s threatened species. Most recently, he has been a key player […]
Alumni Valentines — KayAnn & Brian
At first, there were no sparks. Brian W. Schoeneman, CCAS ’01, GSPM ’04, and KayAnn Panagi, ESIA ’99, first met at GW’s Academic Center, each of them interested more in the debate team than in each other. It would take almost ten years for them to realize how fortuitous that meeting was, but in the […]
Alumni Valentines — Stephanie & Scott
For most medical students, Match Day is a rite of passage, a day to find out where they will spend the next three to seven years as a resident. But for Scott Sexton, SMHS MD ’15, match day was something more. Scott’s fiancé, Stephanie Knapp, SMHS MD ‘14, had matched into Duke Urology upon her […]
Alumni Valentines — Lauri & Michael
What do you do when you’re a gal with two guy friends who also happen to be twins? You end up picking one. At least, that’s what Lauri Mufson, CCAS BA ’76, did after hanging out with the Mufson brothers, Michael and Larry, for a good part of her freshman year. At first, she couldn’t […]
Alumni Valentines — Rachel & Cameron
‘He said, she said’ may not sound like the best way to start a relationship, but he said she wasn’t as cute as somebody else, and she said he looked like a big, loud nerd with a fancy laptop. Is it any wonder that Rachel Bell, CCAS BA ’14, and Cameron Hopkins, CCAS BA ’14, […]
Alumni Valentines — Ariel & Ben
Ariel Wade Trajtenberg, CCAS BA ’06, LAW JD ’10, remembers immediately noticing Ben Trajtenberg, GWSB BBA ’06, when she walked into a party hosted by mutual friends during their sophomore year at GW. “He was so ‘stylish’ with his tie-dye t-shirt and shaggy hair,” she laughs, “but I somehow agreed to a goodnight kiss anyway.” […]