University Campuses
Foggy Bottom Campus
The Foggy Bottom Campus sits in the heart of the nation’s capital, in a vibrant neighborhood bordered by the Potomac River, the Watergate complex, the White House and the State Department. Its location is key to the University’s mission and critical to its success. The campus is home to the majority of GW’s schools and administrative offices, as well as classrooms, libraries, residence halls and the University’s medical center.
Mount Vernon Campus
The Mount Vernon Campus is found in Washington, D.C.’s, wooded Foxhall neighborhood on the former site of Mount Vernon College, a women’s institution with a long heritage of its own. Institutional and commercial venues, as well as homes, embassies and diplomatic residences, surround the Mount Vernon Campus. Yet, it is close enough to downtown, Foggy Bottom and Georgetown to offer access to everything Washington, D.C., has to offer.
Virginia Campus
The Virginia Campus was established in 1991 as GW’s flagship research and technology center. It houses centers of excellence in transportation safety and security, public health and homeland security, professional and executive education and information technology and telecommunications. The campus in Ashburn, Va., is strategically positioned in the Northern Virginia technology corridor.
Other Locations
In addition to its three campuses, GW maintains facilities across the region that serve as education centers for its graduate professional studies programs.
The Unofficial Mascot
In 1996, GW’s then-President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg gave a gift to the Class of 2000--a bronze hippopotamus. Since it was installed at the corner of 21st and H streets, NW, the popular sculpture has become an unofficial GW mascot.
90 Years in Foggy Bottom
For the past 90 years GW’s Foggy Bottom Campus has been part of the historic Foggy Bottom neighborhood, located in the heart of Washington, D.C.
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.