GW Events
Oct. 27-Nov. 5
The 2009 GW Service Excellence Celebration
For more information, visit Service Excellence Celebration.
Nov. 2-9
20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
A week-long series of events--including a candlelight procession, exhibition opening, panel discussion and film screenings--commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. For more information, click here.
$ denotes cost.
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November 2009
Highlights
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Michelle Obama, Jill Biden to Speak at GW Veterans Day Ceremony
Addresses by the wives of the president and vice president will be part of daylong campus activities in celebration of the nation’s veterans.
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Al Gore Calls for Environmental Solutions
The former vice president and Nobel laureate says the climate crisis is “the moral issue of this generation” in talk at GW.
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Honoring Service Excellence
An awards ceremony paying tribute to eight members of the GW community concludes two weeks of service celebrations.
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Remembering the Berlin Wall
Two decades later, GW professors remember the fall of the Berlin Wall and the University hosts a series of commemorative events.
In Memoriam: George Stephens
Professor of Geography and Geosciences George Stephens is remembered as a caring and dedicated teacher.
Out of the Archives: Foggy Bottom Facts
The neighborhood has been the home of a sitting president, the location of an underground railroad station and the site of one of the 20th century’s biggest political scandals.
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.