Summer Institutes
Engage yourself in intensive academic investigation of practical topics that integrate scholarly endeavor with applied learning. Summer institutes offer participants a substantive in-depth analysis of topics with a thematic focus that incorporates the unparalleled resources and key institutions unique to Washington DC. You will attend stimulating lectures led by scholars and expert practitioners; institutes may include field study, site visits, special seminars and programs that collectively create a rigorous study experience. Broaden your mind, enhance your skills, and push the limits through the summer institutes at GW.
2009 Summer Institutes
Field School in Public and Historical Archaeology
Guiding and Supporting Families
Educating the Whole Child
GW Summer Business Institute
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Minority Communities
U.S. Foreign Policy Institute
Women in Mathematics
The GW Experience
Students
All in the Family
Greg and Heather Hachenburg talk about their undergraduate experience at GW, one of many sibling pairs to share in the Colonials legacy.
Creating Next Generation Leaders
GW program helps female students connect with leading women across a variety of fields and develop their roles as future women in leadership.
Where the City is a Classroom
Freshman volunteers experience life beyond Foggy Bottom...
Faculty
Fighting Neglected Diseases
GW professor works to eradicate diseases that affect the health, education and economic development of the world's poorest people.
Building the Super Computer
Pioneering lab puts GW at the forefront of high-speed computing and offers GW students unprecedented access to science and skills of the future.
Blast From the Past
Students map an ancient—and dramatic—eruption as part of a geological research program in the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains.
Alumni
Giving Back to the District of Columbia
D.C. public health director calls GW education the foundation of his career.
GW Opens Doors
A chance encounter with a GW alumna helped give one GW undergraduate, an aspiring broadcast journalist from Texas, his big break.
The Legend Lives On
The $2 million bequest commitment caps a lifetime of philanthropy and service to GW, establishing the Elyse B. and Donald R. Lehman Endowed Professorship in Theoretical Physics.