"It means a lot to me to be a first-generation college student. [My father] instilled in me the value of hard work and the importance of education. Receiving a scholarship has defined my journey through medical school. It’s guided me in choosing...
Giving News
March 27, 2018 - 11:53am
Liliane Willens had lived a life unmoored before; as a child, she and her family experienced World War II as stateless citizens in Shanghai. Decades later, after immigrating to the United States and earning her PhD, Willens found herself lost...
October 18, 2017 - 1:12pm
The GW Cancer Center unveiled a new state-of-the-art mobile mammography van, known as the GW Mammovan, to provide breast cancer screening to women in the Washington, D.C. region.
June 19, 2017 - 3:32pm
In a “milestone in an odyssey from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic,” Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience and professor of pharmacology and physiology at SMHS, became the inaugural Jeffrey Lieberman Professor of...
June 12, 2017 - 11:59am
The senior associate dean for clinical public health was honored in a ceremony June 5.
May 17, 2017 - 6:08pm
“There’s a lot of uncertainty and anxiety about being a health care student. There is very low tolerance for mistakes, there’s high expectations, and it felt like someone really stepped up and made a...
March 20, 2017 - 2:39pm
Philanthropy has myriad motivations; there are as many reasons to give as there are causes in need of support. For Roger J. and Susan Gendron, the reasons are simple: first, their son Theodore is a recent graduate of the George Washington...
March 17, 2017 - 11:56am
Marcus Mitchell, clad in green scrubs and his GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences white coat, has only a short break after finishing his rounds at GW Hospital to talk about the meandering path he’s taken in medicine.
March 17, 2017 - 11:30am
I was thrilled and honored to be chosen for this scholarship, but also to see that a physician in the community so strongly values my nursing background. I would like to send my endless gratitude to [Barnett] and his family for this...
March 17, 2017 - 11:24am
Recognizing that Washington, D.C. has the highest state-level breast cancer mortality rate in the country, you have enabled us to provide funding for the George Washington University Breast Care Center’s mobile mammography unit — the Mammovan....