Volume 105, Issue 2
Stories from the May 19, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Former Colonial Kim Beck became the sixth GW graduate to make a WNBA squad Friday when she earned a roster spot on the Seattle Storm. The Storm drafted Beck in the third round of the WNBA draft April 9, and Beck had been participating in the team’s training camp and preseason match-ups through last week. […]
Peyton R. Patterson, chairman, president and CEO of NewAlliance Bancshares and NewAlliance Bank, told the graduate students of the School of Business Friday that if they want to move up in their careers, they must understand their companies. Patterson, who received her masters at GW in 1983, gave the keynote address at the ceremony in […]
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) recounted his own decorated record during the Law School graduation ceremony on Sunday afternoon at the Smith Center to encourage new graduates to enter into public service careers. The Hawaiian senator, who graduated from GW Law School in 1952, encouraged the graduates to use their degrees to see beyond “wealth and […]
Navy commanders commissioned 16 GW students as military officers at a Navy ROTC ceremony Friday morning in the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre. Keynote speaker Vice Adm. Norbert R. Ryan Jr., president of the Military Officers Association of America, said the 29 GW Navy ROTC ensigns – who are from Catholic, Georgetown, Maryland and GW – […]
Before the senior class walked down the National Mall, 10 seniors on the crew team graduated in a special ceremony in the Jack Morton Auditorium Thursday afternoon. The team competed in the Eastern Sprints race on Sunday and missed Commencement. To compensate, the University organized a special ceremony for the graduates and their families. University […]
New responsibilities come with an Elliott School of International Affairs diploma, said Roger Cressey, president of Good Harbor Consulting Group, at the school’s graduation ceremony Friday in the Smith Center. Cressey, the keynote speaker for the ceremony, and a 1991 alumnus, urged students to take everything they were taught and apply it to future situations. […]
Erika Muhlberg had to hear some words of wisdom from her mother at the School of Business graduation ceremony Friday in the Smith Center – whether she wanted to or not. Judith Muhlberg, a consultant for Gagen MacDonald and mother of marketing major Erika, gave the keynote address at the ceremony. “When I was first […]
Graduates of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences were recognized as “heroes” at the school’s graduation ceremony Saturday night in the Smith Center. Keynote speaker Mark Hughes, former president of System and Network Solutions Group Science Applications International Corporation, said SEAS granted the graduates with great skills to make a difference in the world […]
Wednesday, June 4 More than ten buildings on the Foggy Bottom campus will be become wireless hotspots by the end of August as part of the continuing GWireless project to make the entire campus wireless, the University announced last week. By the fall semester, the University expects academic and mixed-use buildings like the Marvin Center, […]
New York City Public Health Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden discussed his long and distinguished career in public health at the School of Public Health and Health Services graduation ceremony Saturday at Lisner Auditorium. Frieden praised public health professionals as the people “who see the faces and lives behind the numbers,” and said his efforts in […]