Helping Students
Transforming the lives of our students
Donors to GW provide students with the resources and experience they need to excel. Private support allows us to recruit world-renowned scholars and scientists, expand literary collections and technological resources, and enhance student life through the arts, athletics, and lectureships.
Your gifts:
- help students like Parisa Manteghi pursue a career in public service
- provide the means for deserving students like Sally Nuamah to receive an excellent education at GW
- assist veterans like Nate Huffer in realizing the dream of a college education
- open doors to an international journalism career for Emma Cosgrove
Capitol Hill Intern
After receiving her master's degree, Parisa Manteghi will be able to pursue a career in public service. “Were it not for your contribution and the Columbian Women Scholarship, I would not be able to take advantage of such opportunities.”
Scholarship lifts a burden
"I am from a single-parent, low income household. This scholarship has lifted the burden of college expenses, allowing me the freedom to focus on school. Thank you so much for this opportunity.”
- Sally Nuamah, Coca Cola Scholarship Fund recipient
Military Veteran gets a chance
"For me, it wasn’t only the fear of starting college five years after I finished high school, but the fear of not being able to afford it." Thanks to the Mildred Shott Scholarship, Nate Huffer is attending GW.
Opening Doors to an International Career
A recipient of the Gridiron Foundation Scholarship, Emma Cosgrove is ready for a career in international journalism. “My years here (at GW) helped prepare me to enter the workforce as I believe no other university could.”
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.