News:

  • GW is ranked seventh in the Chronicle of Higher Education's 2009-2010, “Top U.S. Producers of Fulbright Students.” Read more about GW's recent success on The George Washington University website.

  • Christopher Howard is a new receipient of the ISSA-NOVA scholarship.

  • Onur Turkcu, has been awarded a Chorafas Foundation Prize of $4,000 for his dissertation,“Transponder Tunability and Waveband Switching in Reconfigurable Optical Networks.”

  • The Columbian Women 2009-2010 award receipients are: Anoma Hapangama (Education), Maria Poscablo (Medicine), Natasha Desai (Medicine), Teresa Sites (Fine Arts), Sara Zettervall (Medicine and Public Health), Parisa Manteghi (Law), Svetlana Sinykin (Medicine), Roshni Patel (Medicine), HIlary Roscoe (PsyD), Chrstine Penfold (Systems Engineering), Jane Keat (PsyD) and Shivani Bhatt (Medicine).

  • Jessica Nelson has been awarded the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation "Scientific Scholarship." Ms. Nelson is a Masters student in Forensic Science.

  • Our Boren Graduate Fellows winners are: William Burns, Syria-MA Middle East Studies; Michael Day, Lebanon-MA International Affairs; Jessica Guiney, Egypt-MA Middle East Studies and Darrin Altman, Syria-MA Middle East Studies. And Kate Wilkinson, Tajikistan-MA Finance. Congratulations!


  • Our Fulbright recipients for 2009 are: Michael Dozler, Latvia; Shaadi Khoury, Syria; David Linfield, Jordan; Catalina Talero, Colombia; and Emily Watkins, Vietnam. Alternates for 2009 are Kathryn Gross, Australia; and Brian Karlsson, Germany. Congratulations!

  • Congratulations to our Critical Language Winners: Daniel Riva, Bangladesh-MA Geography studying Bengali

    Christopher Landon, Russia-MA International Affairs studying Russian

    Antonia Dionne, China-MA Asian Studies, studying Chinese

    David Capezza, Russia-MA European and Eurasian Studies studying Russian

    Sean Reid, Egypt-MA Anthropology studying Arabic

    Ajay Verghese , India-MA Political Science studying Hindi

    Jessica Glover, Morocco-MA Middle East Studies studying Arabic.

  • Congratulations to PhD candidate Lindsay Moore, who has just been awarded a $25,000 2009 Mellon dissertation fellowship. Ms. Moore was one of just 16 fellows selected from an incredibly competitive pool of 378 applicants.
  • Our 2009 Cosmos Club Foundation Young Scholars Awardees are: Kamali Carroll, Laura Dolezal, Catherine Formolo, Paaqua Grant, Emily Herren, Can Kirmizibayrak, Michael Landis, John O'Keefe, Justin Pope, Erik Stemmy and Ajay Verghese. Congratulations to all our winners!

 


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