George Washington University

George Washington University
motto	Deus Nobis Fiducia
founding	1821
Sponsorship	Private
place	Washington, DC , USA
president	Steven Knapp
Students	24,500
Professors	2,000
Foundation assets	$ 1.5 billion
Website	www.gwu.edu

The George Washington University is a private university in Washington, DC , founded in 1821 as Columbian College . It is now the largest university in the District of Columbia.

organization

George Washington University

As usual at US universities, this is divided into colleges and schools. The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences is the university's oldest college .

• Columbian College of Arts and Sciences
• School of Media and Public Affairs
• School of Business
• Elliott School of International Affairs
• School of Public Health and Health Services
• School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
• Graduate School of Political Management
• George Washington University Medical School
• George Washington University Law School
• College of Professional Studies
• Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Academic degrees are offered in the humanities, medicine, health science, law, engineering and applied sciences, education, business and public administration, international politics, and public health care.

Sports

The George Washington University sports teams are the Colonials . The university is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference .

Personalities

Memorial to George Washington on the grounds of George Washington University.

Lecturers

• Thomas Buergenthal , lawyer
• Amitai Etzioni , sociologist
• George Gamow , physicist
• Linda Grant DePauw , modern historian
• Ariel Cahill Hollinshead , pharmacologist and founder of the Virus and Cancer Research Laboratory
• Edward P. Jones , writer
• Kenneth Lay , economist
• Hossein Nasr , Iranian philosopher
• James N. Rosenau , Professor of International Politics
• John W. Snow , 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury, Professor of Law
• Edward Teller , physicist
• Vincent du Vigneaud , biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955
• Jennifer Ward , diplomat

Graduates

• Casey Affleck , actor
• Angela Aki , singer-songwriter
• Thad W. Allen , 23rd Commandant of the Coast Guard
• Anousheh Ansari , US-Iranian multimillionaire and first female space tourist
• Aldrich Ames , CIA agent and double agent
• Chris Anderson , Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, CEO of 3DRobotics
• Red Auerbach , basketball coach
• Julius Axelrod , Nobel Prize in Medicine 1970
• Bob Barr , politician
• Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas , UN official
• William Barr , Attorney General
• Henry W. Barry , Republican politician
• Dana Bash , works for CNN television
• James Franklin Battin , lawyer and politician
• William Tapley Bennett Jr. , diplomat
• William Peter Blatty , writer and director
• Archer Blood , diplomat
• Derek Bok , (1958), 1971–91 President of Harvard University
• Hank Brown , Republican Party politician
• Laurence J. Burton , politician
• Robert Byrd , Democratic US Senator
• Eric Cantor , Republican politician
• Mel Carnahan , governor of the US state of Missouri
• Jean Carpenter Carnahan , democratic politician
• Robert P. Casey , 44th Governor of the State of Pennsylvania
• Fenimore Chatterton , Wyoming State Governor
• Donna Christian-Christensen , democratic politician
• Joel Bennett Clark , Democratic Politician
• Michael Lloyd Coats , astronaut and director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
• James P. Coleman , Mississippi State Governor
• Kent Conrad , Democratic Politician
• Courteney Cox , actress
• Charles Colson , advisor to Richard Nixon
• George B. Cortelyou , Minister of Commerce and Labor, Minister of Post and Minister of Finance
• Larry Craig , Republican politician
• Jonathan Dean , diplomat
• Jeremiah Denton , US Navy politician and admiral
• Martin Dies junior , democratic politician
• Donna Dixon , actress
• John Foster Dulles , United States Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959
• Sibel Edmonds , founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
• Clyde T. Ellis , politician
• Lee E. Emerson , Vermont governor
• Mike Enzi , Republican politician
• Mark Felt , the main informant in the Watergate affair under the pseudonym Deep Throat
• James Folsom Sr. , 45th Governor of Alabama
• Charles Arthur Ford , diplomat
• James William Fulbright , Democratic politician
• John James Flynt junior , politician
• Charles A. Gabriel , 11th Chief of Staff of the Air Force
• Ina garden , cook
• Lori Garver , NASA assistant director
• Sara Gideon , Democratic politician
• Ernest Gibson junior , Vermont governor
• Dan Glickman , Secretary of Agriculture
• Faure Gnassingbé , President of the Togolese Republic
• Patrick Gray , FBI executive director
• Michael Griffin , director of NASA
• Haddaway , singer
• Frank Hagaman , 31st Governor of Kansas
• Kevin Peter Hall , actor
• Ray Hanken , American football player and coach
• Mildred Harnack , literary scholar, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• William A. Harris , politician
• Harry Hughes , Maryland Governor
• William Y. Humphreys , politician
• Patrick Jay Hurley , 51st Secretary of War
• Lawrence Brooks Hays , politician
• J. Edgar Hoover , Founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• George Huddleston Junior , politician
• Sarah T. Hughes , lawyer
• Daniel Inouye , Senator for the State of Hawaii
• Steve Israel , politician
• David M. Kennedy , 60th Secretary of the Treasury
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , wife of John F. Kennedy and therefore First Lady
• Lee Kun-hee , CEO of the Samsung Group
• SM Krishna , Indian politician
• Charles C. Krulak , 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps
• Francis Preston Blair Lee , politician
• Blair Lee III. , Governor of the state of Maryland
• Tuffy Leemans , American football player
• Master P , producer
• Dina Merrill , actress
• John Michael McConnell , Vice Admiral, Director of the NSA and later DNI
• James W. McCord, Jr. , person involved in the Watergate affair
• Adam McMullen , 22nd Governor of Nebraska
• Harold G. Moore , Lieutenant General in the US Army, co-author of We Were Soldiers Once… and Young
• Robert Murphy , diplomat
• John P. O'Neill , Counter Terrorism Expert
• Peter Pace , 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• William H. Parker , politician
• John Garland Pollard , Virginia state governor
• Colin Powell , Army General and Politician. 65th Secretary of State
• Calvin L. Rampton , Governor of the State of Utah
• Lester del Rey , science fiction writer
• Harry Reid , democratic politician
• George W. Romney , 43rd Michigan Governor and Secretary of Development
• Paul Grant Rogers , politician
• Mikheil Saakashvili , Georgian President
• Grant Sawyer , governor of the US state of Nevada
• Gary Sick , Professor of International Relations at Columbia University
• Robert E. Smylie , Idaho State Governor
• John M. Shalikashvili , 13th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Kenneth Starr , investigator in the Whitewater Transactions
• Matthew Williams Stirling , ethnologist
• William O. Studeman , director of the National Security Agency
• Howard Sutherland , Republican politician
• Joe Skubitz , Republican politician
• Frederick Perry Stanton , governor of the Kansas Territory in 1857
• Thomas Swann , Maryland Governor
• Rhee Syng-man , first President of South Korea
• Clyde Tolson , FBI associate director
• Margaret Truman Daniel , actress and writer
• Murray Waas , journalist
• ES Johnny Walker , politician
• Mark R. Warner , Governor of Virginia
• John Warner , United States Secretary of the Navy
• Kerry Washington , actress
• Elton Watkins , politician
• James Edwin Webb , Director of NASA
• Guilford Wiley Wells , politician
• Compton I. White junior , politician
• William L. Wilson , politician
• Scott Wolf , actor
• Bob Woodward , journalist on the Watergate affair
• Ghazi al-Yawar , Iraqi Vice President

Web links

Commons : George Washington University  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Official website

Coordinates: 38 ° 54 '2 "  N , 77 ° 2' 49"  W.