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Greetings, SEAS Alumni:
Here's a look at recent and upcoming SEAS activities and events:
SEAS Hosts GW Angels Workshop
On Thursday, June 28th, SEAS and the Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and Commercialization (CET2C) hosted a mini-workshop, trading floor, and reception for GW alumni, area entrepreneurs, and angel investors. Approximately 90 alumni attended the workshop, which was led by active angel investors, serial entrepreneurs, regional venture capitalists, and private equity experts.
Workshop presenters included Mark Frantz from RedShift Ventures, Andrea Kaufman from Novak Biddle Ventures, and Tom Weithman from Virginia’s CIT GAP Fund, all of whom spoke about angel investing. Other presenters at the workshop included: Mario Cardullo (MEA ’66), who invented RFID and has started several companies, and Michael Loeb, who graciously flew down from New York. Mr. Loeb started Synapse Group, Inc, which was subsequently acquired by Time Warner.
Immediately following the workshop, SEAS and CET2C hosted a reception at which area start-up companies presented their new businesses on the start-up trading floor. Leaders of nine start-up companies—three of which are headed by a GW alumnus or alumna—made presentations.
Share Your News With Other SEAS Alumni!
SEAS will publish our alumni magazine, Synergy, this fall and we hope to include as much information on you, our alumni, as possible.
We know that many of you enjoy keeping up with your classmates, and the magazine is a great way to do that. Please share your news with us, and we’ll share it with your friends and classmates by publishing it in the magazine’s alumni section.
You can send us any news that is important to you – where you currently work, promotions, professional or academic honors, weddings, births, or other events – and we’ll do our best to publish all the news that we receive by September 1st. Please be sure to include your name, degree, and year of graduation in your information, and feel free to send any photos, as well.
If you wish to respond, please send your information and digital photos to: synergy@gwu.edu.
Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you.
Summer Scholars Learn About Biomedical Engineering
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SEAS Assistant Dean Barbara Myklebust (center, front row) led the biomedical engineering experience for the 2007 Summer Scholars. Huda Asfour (left, front row) and Victoria Mitchell (right, front row) assisted with the program. |
Seventeen high schools students from across the U.S. recently participated in the biomedical engineering 10-day mini-course hosted by SEAS and offered as part of GW’s 2007 Summer Scholars Pre-College Program.
From June 17-27, SEAS Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Students Barbara Myklebust led the biomedical engineering mini-course, which gave the students exposure to the various aspects of biomedical engineering: bioinformatics, medical imaging, modeling and simulations, physiological signal processing, biomedical sensor technology, biomechanics, biomaterials, tissue engineering, and rehabilitation medicine. Dean Myklebust was assisted throughout the course by Huda Asfour, the program’s graduate teaching assistant, and Victoria Mitchell, the residential life coordinator.
The program included classroom experiences, hands-on experiences in SEAS and the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences laboratories, and field trips to the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. The students also were able to visit Bodies: The Exhibition, the Koshland Science Museum, and the Air and Space Museum. As a capstone experience at the end of the program, they presented futuristic biomedical engineering designs of their own creation.
“The students were terrific,” said Myklebust. “They were very engaged; they asked good questions; and they integrated the information from one experience to another. They also were good teammates with each other, supporting one another with their design projects.”
When asked how the students seemed to respond to the program, Myklebust replied, “They said that they were very happy to have found our biomedical engineering mini-course and to have met so many professors and researchers during the program. About half of them said that they want to go to medical school, and our program also gave them the opportunity to meet with two medical school students.”
SEAS Students Win More Scholarships
SEAS is pleased to announce that two of our students--Kimberly Turley and Amir Aslani--have received prestigious academic awards for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Kimberly Turley, a rising sophomore, was awarded the highly competitive David L. Boren Scholarship by the National Security Education Program to study abroad during this coming academic year. Boren Scholarships are made available to U.S. undergraduates who will pursue the study of languages and cultures currently under-represented in study abroad and critical to U.S. national security. Ms. Turley will study in China.
Amir Aslani, a rising senior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a research award for the upcoming academic year from the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society of the IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). The IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society awards these scholarships to attract undergraduates to the microwave and RF (radio frequency) discipline, and to encourage them to pursue graduate degrees in this field. Mr. Aslani, who studies electrical engineering, will be conducting research for his senior project on data transfer via RF/microwave link.
GW Steel Bridge Team Takes Honors in Regional Competition
GW’s Steel Bridge Team performed very well in this year’s regional steel bridge competition held in the spring at Virginia Military Institute. The GW team took first place honors in aesthetics and placed third in the overall competition.
Eight schools participated in the regional competition, including the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, West Virginia University, Old Dominion University, Howard University, and of course, GW, and the Virginia Military Institute. The teams’ bridges were judged on the following criteria: stiffness, weight, construction time, efficiency, economy, and aesthetics.
The members of GW’s team are: Steven Marlowe (team captain), Ragy Darweesh, Roman Azizian, Matt Wade, Henry Hererra, Ashish Bhargava, Mike Melhorn, Nicholas Valcourt, and faculty advisor, Professor Majid Manzari.
Los Angeles Area Alumni Get Together
On June 24th, SEAS National Advisory Council member Rick Barry hosted a reception in Santa Barbara, California, for 25 SEAS alumni, students, parents and friends from across the Southland.
In addition to enjoying each other’s company, the group welcomed incoming freshman Eric Braga and his parents. The reception included remarks from Dean Timothy Tong and a presentation by Academy Award-nominated alumnus Bill Westenhofer (MS’95).
Westenhofer, a visual effects supervisor with Rhythm & Hues Studios, shared some behind-the-scenes secrets from his nominated work on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He showed how Aslan the lion was painstakingly created over a two-year period and how a huge battle scene populated by mythical creatures comes to life on the screen.
James Hahn, chair of the Department of Computer Science, was also in attendance and took great pride in the accomplishments of Westenhofer, his former student.
SEAS is proud to announce the GW Engineering group on LinkedIn, an independent, commercial, online networking tool.
SEAS has partnered with LinkedIn to provide this service for SEAS alumni, students, faculty, and staff, and we invite you to join the GW Engineering group. We hope that you will find it a useful tool for business networking, job searches, or simply for locating other members of the SEAS community.
To join the GW Engineering group, just click here and complete a LinkedIn member profile. Access to the group is free, completely optional, and is available only to members of the SEAS community.
About online business networking: You can use LinkedIn to expand and track your network in an organized and systematic way. The GW Engineering group on LinkedIn provides an ideal starting point, and it also provides a point of contact for people outside the SEAS community who are connected to your fellow GW Engineering group members.
About privacy: Please read the LinkedIn privacy policy to answer any concerns about privacy.
Upcoming SEAS Events
Seattle SEAS Alumni, Students, & Parents – SAVE THE DATE!
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
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6:30-8:30 pm |
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Home of Alice & John Tawresey (Parents of Gwendolyn, SEAS Class of 2009)
213 Gowen Place Northwest
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 |
Local Seattle SEAS parents, Alice and John Tawresey, will host a reception in their home for GW Engineering alumni, parents, friends, and current and incoming students of SEAS to meet Dean Timothy W. Tong.
Formal invitations will be mailed in mid-June. Please e-mail seasalum@gwu.edu or call the SEAS Office of Advancement and Alumni Programs at 202-994-8474 for additional information.
San Diego SEAS Alumni, Students, & Parents – SAVE THE DATE!
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
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6:30 - 8:30 pm |
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Home of Dr. Byung K. Yi (D.Sc.’99, Applied Scientist’ 91)
Senior Executive Vice President, LG Electronics
12772 Jordan Ridge Court
San Diego, CA 92130-2747 |
Local San Diego SEAS alumnus, Dr. Byung K. Yi, will host a reception in his home for GW Engineering alumni, parents, friends, and current and incoming students of SEAS to meet Dean Timothy W. Tong.
Formal invitations will be mailed in mid-June. Please e-mail seasalum@gwu.edu or call the SEAS Office of Advancement and Alumni Programs at 202-994-8474 for additional information.
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