Advancing University Priorities
The Power and Promise of Student Aid
The GW Student Aid Initiative aims to quadruple support for need-based financial aid over the next five years – ensuring access to unparalleled educational opportunities for talented and promising students regardless of economic means.
Science and Engineering
GW researchers are on the brink of extraordinary breakthroughs that could transform everyday life in the 21st century. A bold step in this direction is the development of a new Science and Engineering Complex as the intellectual hub for science, engineering, and technology at GW.
Public Health Academic Center
In its short history, the School of Public Health and Health Services has carved out a national and international reputation for advancing public health education. The time has come to build a new on-campus home to match the School’s prominence and help SPHHS fully realize its leadership potential as the only school of public health in the nation’s capital.
Faculty Chairs and Professorships
Named chairs and professorships are the highest honors bestowed on faculty. They tell the world’s academic community that GW’s faculty members are among the most prominent in their respective fields, known widely for excellence in both their teaching and scholarship.
Solar Institute Kickoff Symposium Draws Top Energy Experts to GW
Ted Turner and key decision-makers were the featured participants in the kickoff symposium hosted by the new GW Solar Institute.
Renowned Attorney Alan B. Morrison to Lead Public Interest Initiative
A gift of $3 million from the Annette M. and Theodore N. Lerner Family Foundation has endowed this position, which builds on GW's expertise and reputation as a leader in public service and public interest law.
Charles E. Smith Chair in Judaic Studies Appointed
A generous faculty endowment brings renowned historian Jenna Weissman Joselit to GW to continue her studies on contemporary American life in a biblical context.
GW Professor Fights Neglected Diseases
With your support, Dr. Peter Hotez works to eradicate diseases that affect the health, education and economic development of the world's poorest people.
Student Aid Initiative
The Student Aid Initiative enables donors to extend a remarkable educational opportunity to promising young men and women.
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.