SEAS Press Releases

Archived Press Releases:

2004 - 2006:

• GW and NASA Join to Fight Diabetes
• SEAS Ranked Among Top 20 in U.S. for Number of Master's Degree Awarded
• SEAS and GW Medical Center Combine Expertise on New NIH Grant
• GW Hosts Senior Aviation Officials From Around the World
• GW Leads the Nation In the Percentage of Engineering Doctoral Degrees Awarded to Women
• GW Receives "High Quality" Peer Review For Its Prescriptive Decision Programs
• GW Professor Robert Cutler to Discuss and Sign His New Book, MacKay's Flying Fortress
• FAA Administrator Marion C. Blakey to Keynote GW SEAS Graduation Celebration May 14
• From Research to Reality: GW Hosts Symposium on Pervasive Computing in the Smart Home, May 20
• Seven Presidential Administrative Fellows Named from GW Class of 2004
• Trachtenberg and GW Alumni Association Announce Recipients of 68th Annual Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awards
• GW Hosts 13th International Summit on Aviation Safety & Security
• FAA Administrator Marion Blakey Headlines GW's 13th International Summit on Aviation Safety & Security, March 8
• GW Receives $300,000 Grant from Space Shuttle Children's Fund to Study Astronaut Safety
• GW Researchers Analyze Atmosphere on Mars and Reconstruct Trajectory of Mars Rover "Spirit"
• GW Teams with Private Information Technology Firms to Analyze U.S. Department of Justice Information Sharing System

2003:

• GW Hosts 12th International Summit on Aviation Safety & Security, December 8-12
• Engineering Faculty Helps Found Washington Academy of Biomedical Engineering
• GW Virginia Campus Breaks Ground on World's First University-Based, Full-Scale Indoor Crash Test Facility
• GW's FHWA/NHTSA NCAC to Offer Free Certified Child Car Seat Safety Checks on Virginia Campus to Public by Appointment
• PISCES Project Led By GW School of Engineering and Applied Science Lands $3.5 Million in NSF Funding to Secure Cyberspace
• SEAS Graduate Pascale Doumit Selected as One of Six Presidential Administrative Fellows Named From GW Class of 2003
• 2003 GW Graduate, Alison Alvarez, Receives Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship for Graduate Study
• Open Source Experts Join GW's Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute
• New Kind of Optical Probe Developed by GW and Duke Engineers Might Someday Detect Abnormalities Hidden Within Walls of Colon or Esophagus
• GW Honors Computer Science Professor Michael Feldman with Trachtenberg Teaching Award April 4
• GW President Awards President's Medal to Chinese Industrialist Dr. Chiang Chen
• International Experts Discuss Applications of Open Source Software at GW Conference March 17-19
• GW Information Assurance Curriculum Certified Among the Nation's Best
• GW Students Test the Limits of the Egg in Celebrating National Engineers Week
• GW Receives $5 Million Grant For Automotive Safety Research

2002:

• Two Open Source Experts Join GW's Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute
• GW/DoD Science and Engineering Apprentice Program Brings Qualified High School Students into Government Laboratories to Assist With Research
• GW to Host Regional ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest November 16
• National Experts to Discuss Transportation Security at GW Virginia Campus November 1
• Three GW Faculty Receive Fulbright Scholarships; University to Host 10 Foreign Fulbright Scholars
• GW Charters Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute
• GW Receives $1.7 Million Grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute for Undergraduate Biological Sciences Programs
• GW is First Four-Year University to Join FAA’s Collegiate Training Initiative
• GW Engineering Student Awarded Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
• GW Named a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education
• FAA Administrator to Deliver Commencement Address at GW’s School of Engineering and Applied Science Ceremony
• GW Alumni Association Announces Recipients of 65th Annual Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awards May 18
• GW Names Elliot Soloway as Welling Professor
• GW Aviation Institute Launches New Airline Management Certificate Program

2001:

• Asleep At The Wheel? GW's Loudoun-Dulles Campus to Unveil Driving Simulator Laboratory at Campus's 10-Year Birthday Party Dec. 3
• Whole Lotta Shakin' Going on at GW's Loudoun-Dulles Campus: The Most Modern Earthquake Simulator Facility in the U.S. to be Unveiled at Campus's 10-Year Anniversary Celebration Dec. 3
• America Online and George Washington University Announce the Grand Opening of Lab Researching "Home of the 21st Century" Technology Dec. 3
• GW To Celebrate 10 Years as a Leader in Research and Education in Northern Virginia's Technology Corridor
• FAA Awards $3 Million to GW Consortium for Developing International Aviation Safety and Security Program
• GW Students Win NASA Design Competition
• America Online and GW Announce Research Alliance to Explore New Uses for the Internet in the Home