Our friends at GW Athletics recently announced some exciting news for both the GW athletic and alumni communities: GW’s first-year baseball Head Coach Gregg Ritchie, GWSB BBA ’86, was recently named the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year in voting conducted among the league’s head coaches. Ritchie, a former Major League Baseball hitting coach for […]
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Students Thank Alumni at Philanthropy Day
On April 9, GW students flocked to Kogan Plaza for Alumni & Philanthropy Day 2013. Their mission? To thank alumni donors for their generosity. One student wrote, “Without you, I wouldn’t be able to go to GW.” Philanthropy Day was a collaborative effort hosted by current students, members of the Colonial Ambassadors and the 2013 […]
Alumni artwork to hang in every GW dorm
Our friends at GW Today recently highlighted a new initiative that will put alumni-produced artwork into every GW residence hall: Art for GW, by GW The George Washington University has 32 residence halls, each with a lobby or common area. That’s 32 spaces where students linger, waiting for friends, picking up their mail or checking […]
The South Africa Project: 10 Year Anniversary Events
This weekend, the South Africa Project celebrates 10 years at GW with a showcase of events. The Project is a special program within the university’s Department of Theatre & Dance. Since the summer of 2003, GW professor Leslie Jacobson has traveled to the rural township of Winterveldt, South Africa, with colleague Roy Barber from St. […]
Dept. of Art: Upcoming free events
GW’s Department of Art invites all alumni to the following events, which are part of its Visiting Artists and Scholars Committee (VASC) lecture series. Each semester, fine arts and art history undergraduate majors and MFA and MA students are invited to join VASC, which includes several full-time faculty members. The committee is responsible for researching […]
Exhibit: Clarice Smith: Captured Moments
GW’s Luther W. Brady Art Gallery presents Clarice Smith: Captured Moments, a painting exhibition. The opening reception will be held on Jan. 17 from 5-7 p.m. The gallery is located on the Foggy Bottom campus, in the Media & Public Affairs Building at 805 21st Street, NW. The exhibition will run from Jan. 17 – […]
GW Magazine Nabs a Top Honor
The story of a GW alumnus’ adventures in recovering stolen masterpieces has won GW Magazine a top national award for journalism in alumni magazines. The article, called Saving Grace, earlier this month received a gold award in the “Best Articles of the Year” category of annual honors given by the Council for Advancement and Support […]
GW Business Plan Competition Features Student, Faculty Ingenuity
If the vast amount of information available on the Internet is envisioned as an iceberg, traditional search engines like Google only uncover the very tip. That’s why Zhuojie Zhou, a SEAS Ph.D. student, and Nan Zhang, a GW assistant professor of computer science, developed WiseAgg, a search engine for analysts. The engine, which works on […]
Historic Walking Tour Celebrates GW’s 100 Years in Foggy Bottom
“Campus has changed so much since I was last here,” is a phrase uttered, and sometimes lamented, by those who haven’t visited campus in years. This sentiment accurately depicts how quickly change can come to the built environment of Foggy Bottom, with new dorms and mixed-use developments seemingly constructed in a matter of months. In […]
INFOGRAPHIC: GW Undergraduate Admissions 20 Year Trends
During the last week of March, the GW Office of Undergraduate Admissions notifies regular decision applicants of their admission status. This can be a trying time for students and parents, but an exciting time for a university community, as the freshman class begins to take shape. As GW prepares to welcome the Class of 2016 […]