NASA engineer Christine Darden is often asked which movie star played her in the motion picture “Hidden Figures,” the film about African American women who worked as human computers during the era of the space race. “I am not in the movie, but I am in the book,” she told a George Washington University Lehman […]
This story appeared in the spring 2016 issue of GW Magazine. Jerry Dworkin, GWSB BBA ’75, makes a bold claim about his collection of 111 Mike Piazza baseball cards, which, with the exception of a select 24 (more on those later), are stored in a secret safe. “This is the most unusual collection of a hall […]
Chicago Bulls owner and chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, GWSB BA ’57, was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Monday. Reinsdorf, who oversaw six Michael Jordan-led championship teams in the 1990s, will be enshrined along with nine members of the Class of 2016, including Shaquille O’Neal, Allen Iverson, and current Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo. “This is […]
Seven George Washington University graduates, including the director of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the chief of staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, were honored October 22 by the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the 2015 GW Engineering Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Christopher Scolese, MS ’82, the center […]
Itching for an excuse to come back to campus? GW’s 2014 Homecoming Weekend is just around the corner! From Feb. 7-9, the Foggy Bottom campus will be abuzz with several special events to Raise High the Buff and Blue. Festivities kick off on Friday, Feb. 7 with the annual George Washington’s Birthday Bonfire at 6:00pm […]
