Setting the Standard
Building a Foundation of Success
Leadership gifts transform and uplift the lives of our students and inspire others to support our scholars as they prepare to meet the challenges of the 21st century and beyond.
These major contributions:
- Fund the recruitment of the faculty that will train our future leaders
- Support cutting-edge research in science, engineering, and policy-making that will inform the progress of the next generation
- Sustain our students’ participation in the national discourse on policy, law, culture, science and technology
Dedication Ceremony Marks Official Opening of Katzen Research Center
Founded through a $10 million gift from Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen, the new center will enhance recruitment of top scholars and foster innovative approaches to preventing and treating cancer.
Charles E. Smith Center Challenge
Smith and Kogod Families commit $10 Million for major renovation of the Charles E. Smith Center
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.