Alumnus Gilbert Cisneros, BA ’94, and his wife, Jacki, have donated $7 million to create the GW Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute, which will offer a pre-college program to high school juniors, with plus-factor consideration for students of Hispanic heritage who are committed to service and leadership in the Hispanic community. Read more.

The Music Department’s Tour Choir brought a lively mix of spirituals, standards and sing-alongs to the Baltic States, with performances at churches in Lithuania, castles in Latvia and an orphanage in Estonia. As part of a biannual study abroad cultural exchange program, the tour combined academics, service and song. Read more.

From life-long friendships to life-changing experiences, Columbian College students share a wealth of special experiences on campus, in the classroom and throughout the community. As the academic year drew to a close, they paused to share what they like best about GW. Read more.

As a chemistry student, Sydney Morris' research in Peter Nemes' lab helped develop technologies to probe biological processes at the single-cell level. Now, as a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, she's on the research star track. Read more.

Dueling TV commentators Sally Kohn and Tony Sayegh don’t share a political party or ideology. She’s a progressive pundit; he’s a conservative strategist. But they have one common bond: They were both members of the Columbian College Class of 1998. A dozen years after graduating, the Patriot politicos reconnected on the air. Read more.

As a pioneering public health professional, Marie Sansone, BA ’78, built her career around helping those in need—a lesson she learned studying philosophy at GW. Now the alumna is practicing the philosophy-of-giving-back with a $250,000 gift to establish the Marie G. Sansone Endowed Fund in Philosophy. Read more.

As the world struggles to decipher massive amounts of digital information, Columbian College’s new Data Science program is preparing the specialists of tomorrow. Drawing on statistics, computer science and math, the program has applications in business, engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and health care. Read more.

The long-lost objects found off the coast of Cape Town from a sunken 18th century slave ship will be displayed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The artifacts were recovered by Columbian College’s Stephen Lubkemann and an international team of maritime archeologists. Read more.

Elizabeth Acevedo, BA ’10, was named a 2015 Women of Distinction by the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders.

Stuart Licht was awarded a $251,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to investigate ways to transform the Navy's energy and fuel chain.

Guillermo Orti received a $397,896 National Science Foundation grant for collaborative research on the role of habitat transitions in parallel marine fish radiations.

Protea announced a new, silicon chip technology that enables the rapid identification and quantitation of small molecules in biofluids. The chip employs a nanotechnology invented in the lab of Akos Vertes.

Read more "In the Spotlight"

• Philanthropy Pitch Served ‘Oven Fresh’
• Alexi LeFevre, BA '05, Publishes New Novel
• ‘Art in the Making’ Reveals Roadmap to Masterpiece
• New Museum Receives Historic Preservation Award
• GW Expands ‘I Am Malala’ Resource Guide to High Schools
• On the Road: Professor Wallace in Scotland
• Triple Alumnus Luther Brady Honored with President’s Medal
• PhD Candidate Tawnya Ravy Selected for NEH Summer Institute
• Six High-Achieving Seniors Named 2015 Presidential Administrative Fellows
• Ellington Students ‘Experience the Unexpected’ at Corcoran School
• GW VALOR Wraps Up Second Year
• GW Squash Alum Launches Social Media App

• GW Culture Buffs at The National Postal Museum (Washington, D.C.)
• 36th Annual Celebration of Textiles (Washington, D.C.)
• Hamlet: The Academy for Classical Acting Summer Repertoire (Washington, D.C.)
• Trachtenberg School Alumni Picnic (Washington, D.C.)
• GW Virtual Networking Hour June 2015
• Alumni Reception at the American Art Therapy Association Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN)

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• Information Session: MA in Art Therapy
• Information Session: MS in Data Science and Graduate Certificate in Data Science
• Information Session: MS in High Technology Crime Investigation
• Art in the Making: A New Adaptation
• Colonial Inauguration

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