Sarah (Mathews) Collins, ESIA BA ’08, CCAS MA ’15, and Paul Collins, SEAS BS ’06, overlapped a bit at GW, but never met on campus. Which, for their long-term prospects, may be for the best. “I like to say if she had known me then she never would have married me,” says Paul with a […]
Long-running communication class guest session featuring GW alumni has led to multiple job offers. Shanee Goss Cohen’s first job didn’t last long. Before her lunch break on her first day at a job in human resources at a major newspaper, the George Washington University alumna received a surprise offer from marketing and communications firm Reingold. […]
Lisa Caruso, ESIA BA ’88, little suspected that a chance meeting would jump start her career as a film director, producer, publicist, screenwriter, and industry executive. The serendipitous encounter took place in the mid-1980s when, through a friend, Caruso happened into conversation with an Elliott School junior. “He told me about international affairs, and I […]
Naomi Spinrad, CCAS BA ’68, ESIA MA ’86, has had a career in journalism that has taken her around the world and provided adventures: dropping out of a helicopter onto an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, briefly steering an aircraft carrier and spending more time than she can count on military ships. It’s been a life […]
Ten former students of George Washington University were on the ballot for national office in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Six candidates won seats in the House and one candidate was successful in the Senate and all will be sworn-in as part of the 116th Congress on Jan. 3, 2019. Here are the results, race by race: Julia Brownley, MVC BA […]
The university honored nine alumni for their significant career accomplishments and service commitment. For their many and varied contributions to public service and business to health care and technology, George Washington University alumni were recognized Thursday for their career and service accomplishments during the 2018 Alumni Awards, which kicked off Colonials Weekend. “The people in […]
GW graduates involved in national politics talked about the November 2018 midterm elections in a series of events across the United States. Residents of coastal cities in the United States, particularly in the nation’s capital, tend to be the driving force behind media coverage, according to Ann Stone, CCAS BA ’74, a former adviser to […]
GW grads plan to launch online channel dedicated to food-industry voices currently lacking a microphone. Kevin Doyle, CCAS BA ’13 and Tae Kim, ESIA BA ‘13 lived somewhat parallel lives in college. Each attended GW, detoured for a degree at Le Cordon Bleu culinary academy in Paris, immersed himself in the D.C. food scene, and […]
The awards will be presented at a ceremony that helps kick off Colonials Weekend in October. Nine George Washington University alumni will be honored this year for their significant career accomplishments and service to the university at the 2018 Alumni Awards, which takes place during Colonials Weekend in October. The 2018 award recipients are: Alumni Achievement Award Nelson […]
On a Tuesday morning at the start of his sophomore year at GW, Mosheh Oinounou, CCAS BA ’04, ESIA MA ’06, began a new internship that may have led him to a political future. But history had other ideas. The internship for Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), from his home state of Illinois, began Sept. 11, […]
