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Explore our City: Washington Cathedral

Enjoy the Washington Cathedral with its Bishop's Garden, May Flower Fest and the ever-watchful stone gargoyles.

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.