Academic Life
Today’s students expect a high level of academic excellence and challenge. Meeting and exceeding these expectations is GW’s primary mission. We offer a broad range of academic programs. Students also have the option to create customized, multidisciplinary courses of study. To make sure that every student has access to the very best 21st century education, GW provides a wide selection of academic experiences, from lectures and seminars to hands-on learning in labs or through partnerships with organizations and museums in the Washington, D.C., region. With a world-class library and state-of-the art technology to back up the academic experience, our goal is to educate students to become citizens of our global society, ready to take on the challenges of this still new century.
Innovative Spaces
Modern classrooms and state-of-the-art conference facilities enhance the student experience.
Extensive Resources
Through the Washington Research Consortium, GW offers students a “virtual library” of more than 7.5 million volumes. The Gelman Library (shown here) supports general studies, while Himmelfarb and Burns support medicine and law, respectively.
Connected Classrooms
A student uses wireless Internet to download classroom notes, to check his calendar of student meetings and class schedules, to be active in online discussion groups and to review news, banking, daily events and activities.
International Study
Students participating in GW’s study abroad program enjoy a few moments of fun at the Palais d’Orsay in Paris.
The GW Experience
Students
An Incubator for Ideas
GW student entrepreneurs may apply for spots in entrepreneurship incubator.
A Home Away from Home
Twins study medicine and public health at George Washington.
Student Co-Produces New Album
George Washington student José Curbelo helped produce an album of northern Uruguayan music for Smithsonian Folkways.
A Call to Service
GW students traveled to Guatemala, Honduras, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Puerto Rico as part of the fourth annual Alternative Winter Break program.
Faculty
Teaching Campaigning in Cairo
GSPM professors teach practical skills to emerging politicians in Egypt.
South African Youth Perform at GW
Latest collaboration between Professor of Theatre Leslie Jacobson and the Bokamoso Youth Centre premieres Friday.
A Life-Changing Course
Today’s reading by Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of “The Far Euphrates,” is the first of six from visiting artists in this spring’s Jewish Literature Live course.
Alumni
Medical Alumni Can ‘Adopt a Doc’
New scholarship program enables graduates to put a face and name to donations.
GW Alumni, Graduate Student Win Fulbrights
Fifteen alumni and one doctoral student will conduct research around the globe with 2011-12 Fulbrights.
Furry Friend Gets Kids Excited About Learning
George Washington alumna helped create a curriculum for elementary school students centered on the dog who used to serve as the postal service’s mascot.