Thanks to Kaitlin Denney, ESIA BA ’14, MA ’17, and Skye Kussmann, ESIA BA ’13, for sharing their GW friendship love story! Skye and I met on a warm day in August while waiting to head to sailing practice. I was a scared freshman with no idea what I was getting into and Skye was […]
Thanks to Karina Rodríguez, ESIA MA ’15, and Andrew Wisniewski, ESIA MA ’15, for sharing their story! In the summer of 2013, I moved to Washington, DC all the way from Mexico to start graduate school at GW. On my second day of class, I met Andrew. I remember thinking how cute and smart he […]
George Washington University alumni, families and friends will have the opportunity to meet President Thomas LeBlanc in the coming months as part of a series of community receptions around the country. During these events, Dr. LeBlanc will share his vision for GW as the university approaches its bicentennial in 2021. These initial priorities took shape […]
Many people can pinpoint the ‘aha’ moment they decide upon a chosen career. For Cameron Waggener, CCAS BA ’17, his moment happened during a class he took as a sophomore at GW. “I began my career by opening the DC area’s first bicycle coffee shop after taking a geography course at GW titled People, Land, […]
On a recent day last month, Marielena Faria, ESIA BA ’13, stopped by the Elliott School to update us on her career and tell us about her latest project, Hearts 4 Harmony (H4H). The project aims to bring instruments donated by children in the United States to children in an underdeveloped corner of northern India. Many […]
Spring 2017 issue of GW Magazine features alumni who go out on a limb. The Adventurers In harm’s way or in the bottomless unknown, these alumni are found setting up camp, feeling out the boundaries beyond bounds and stealing imagination. Refusing to Remain a ‘Hidden Figure’ As one of NASA’s trailblazing “human computers” in […]
The 2017 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award recipients include Dana Bash, B.A. ’93, CNN chief political correspondent. The Oct. 19 award ceremony helps kick off Colonials Weekend. Eight George Washington University alumni will be honored this year with the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, the highest form of recognition given annually by the university and the George […]
Winter in Moscow is relentlessly cold, as Wendy Cutler, ESIA BA ’79, learned when she spent her GW semester abroad in the capital of what was then the Soviet Union. Her time in Moscow also coincided with the Cold War. “It was a “rough semester, frankly,” Wendy says, with a hint of a smile. But […]
Sen. Duckworth, Lt. Gen. Nadja Y. West and The Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron received honorary degrees as 6,000 students graduated from GW. U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) described Nov. 12, 2004, as her “alive day” during her George Washington University Commencement address Sunday on the National Mall. “It was the day I […]
In 1960, fresh out of college, John boarded a prop plane bound for Hawaii. There, he taught at the Punahou School on Oahu, where Barack Obama would one day earn his high school degree. The mix of cultures in the Hawaiian archipelago appealed to John, and a career that included two decades as a CIA operative […]
