Winter 2016 Archive
winter 2016
Just Passing Through
With the automobile boom in the rearview and the Interstate Highway System ahead, a professor spent much of the late 1960s and ’70s documenting a moment in time on the American road.
Jonquel's Best Shot
The Bahamian standout took a 900-mile leap and landed as one of the WNBA’s top prospects.
You Are Here
As president of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Daniel Weiss, BA ’79, finds his way anew on familiar turf.
Other Winter Features
The Sweet Life
Behind the newly named Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service is an American story more than a century in the making.
Fluid Dynamics
As a child in the 1950s, alumna Alexandra "Alex" Tolstoy created oil sketches of Rembrandts and of angels in Michelangelo paintings.
Legally Bound
Inside the Jacob Burns Law Library's trove of 35,000 rare books.
How To Sound Smart About Architecture ...
And impress friends, significant others, your parents who didn't want you to get that liberal arts degree.
More Alumni News
So You Went Viral. What Next?
A run of viral-photo glory has left Joe Gidjunis, BA '04, with questions.
The Student Lens
Freshman Harrison Jones took over GW's Instagram account for a week.
Plane Jane
Competing in a four-day, women-only transcontinental air race, Carole Scanlon-Goldberg, MS '83, follows a path plied by some of history's greatest aviatrixes.
Keeping Time
The maestro of the Musical Instrument Museum offers favorites from the collection.
Bookshelves
Baton Rouge-based writer Maggie Heyn Richardson, BA '90, excavates stories of Louisiana's food heritage.
Endowed Gifts: A Primer
The university's more than 1,300 endowments provide funding for scholarships, professorships and programs, among other things, in perpetuity.
A Curated Tour of Alumni Weekend 2015
Matt Manfra, GW's new head of alumni relations, offers some highlights.
Chardonnay By the Bay
More than 100 GW alumni, parents, prospective students and other guests mingled during a November afternoon of food and wine pairings in San Francisco.
Class Notes & In Memoriam
Read updates from alumni and submit your own.
Athletics News
Fashion Forward
New fight-song themed uniform deepens the Colonials' closet.
The Tao of Scoring a Game-Winning Goal
Junior forward Mackenzie Cowley overcame a midseason scoring funk to net the game winning goal in each of the Colonials’ final three games.
A Place of Community: The Charles Smith Center at 40
Alumni, former coaches and others look back at the moments that mattered.
A Foreign Incursion
International students fuel GW's nationally ranked squash programs.