George Washington University

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

Organization

As usual at U.S. universities is divided into these colleges and schools. The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest college of the university.

  • 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 humanities, medicine, health science, law, engineering and applied sciences, education, business administration and public administration, international politics and public health care.

Sports

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

Famous people

Lecturers

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

Graduates

  • Casey Affleck, actor
  • Angela Aki, singer-songwriter
  • Thad W. Allen, Commandant of the Coast Guard 23
  • Anousheh Ansari American- Iranian multimillionaire and space tourist
  • Aldrich Ames, CIA operative and double agent
  • Chris Anderson ( journalist ), former editor in chief of Wired magazine, CEO of 3DRobotics
  • Red Auerbach, basketball coach
  • Julius Axelrod, Nobel Prize for Medicine 1970
  • Bob Barr, politicians
  • William Barr, former U.S. Secretary of the Minister of Justice
  • Henry W. Barry, Republican politicians
  • Dana Bash, works for CNN
  • James Franklin Battin, politicians
  • William Tapley Bennett Jr., Diplomat
  • William Peter Blatty, author and director
  • Archer Blood, Diplomat
  • Derek Bok (1958), 1971-1991 president of Harvard University
  • Hank Brown, politician of the Republican Party
  • Laurence J. Burton, politicians
  • Robert Byrd, Democratic U.S. Senator
  • Eric Cantor, Republican politicians
  • Mel Carnahan, Governor of the U.S. state of Missouri
  • Carpenter Jean Carnahan, democratic politician
  • Robert Patrick Casey senior, 44th Governor of the State of Pennsylvania
  • Fenimore Chatterton, former Governor of the State of Wyoming
  • 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, former governor of the state of Mississippi
  • Kent Conrad, Democratic politician
  • Courteney Cox, Actress
  • Charles Colson, adviser to Richard Nixon
  • George B. Cortelyou, former Trade and Labor Minister, Postmaster General and Minister of Finance
  • Larry Craig, Republican politicians
  • Jonathan Dean, Diplomat
  • Jeremiah Denton, politician and former admiral of the U.S. Navy
  • Martin Dies Jr., Democratic politician
  • Donna Dixon, Actress
  • John Foster Dulles, 1953-1959 Secretary of State
  • Sibel Edmonds, founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
  • Clyde T. Ellis, politicians
  • Lee E. Emerson, former governor of the state of Vermont
  • Mike Enzi, Republican politicians
  • Mark Felt, under the pseudonym Deep Throat the most important informant in the Watergate scandal
  • James Folsom senior, 45th Governor of Alabama
  • Charles Arthur Ford, Diplomat
  • James William Fulbright, Democratic politician
  • John James Flynt Jr., politician
  • Charles A. Gabriel, 11th Chief of Staff of the Air Force
  • Ina Garten, cook
  • Lori Garver, deputy director of NASA
  • Ernest Gibson Jr., former governor of the state of Vermont
  • Dan Glickman, former Minister of Agriculture
  • Faure Gnassingbe, President of the Togolese Republic
  • Patrick Gray, former managing director of the FBI
  • Michael Griffin, former director of NASA
  • Haddaway, singer
  • Frank Hagaman, 31, 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, politicians
  • Harry Hughes, former Governor of the State of Maryland
  • William Y. Humphreys, politicians
  • Patrick Jay Hurley, 51 Minister of War
  • Lawrence Brooks Hays, politicians
  • J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  • George Huddleston Jr., politician
  • Sarah T. Hughes, a lawyer
  • Daniel Inouye, U.S. Senator for the state of Hawaii
  • Steve Israel, American politician
  • David M. Kennedy, the 60th Finance
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of John F. Kennedy and thus the First Lady
  • Lee Kun -hee, CEO of Samsung Group
  • S. M. Krishna, Indian politician
  • Charles C. Krulak, Commandant of the Marine Corps 31
  • Francis Preston Blair Lee, politicians
  • Blair Lee III. , Former Governor of the State of Maryland
  • Tuffy Leemans (1912-1979), American football player
  • Master P, Producer
  • Dina Merrill, Actress
  • John Michael McConnell, former Vice Admiral, director of the NSA and DNI later
  • James W. McCord, Jr., a participant in the Watergate scandal
  • Adam McMullen, 22, Governor of Nebraska
  • Harold G. Moore, former Lieutenant General of the U.S. Army, co-author of We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young
  • Robert Murphy, Diplomat
  • John P. O'Neill, anti- terrorism expert
  • Peter Pace, 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • William H. Parker, politicians
  • John Garland Pollard, former Governor of Virginia
  • Colin Powell, a former general of the U.S. Army and a politician. 65 U.S. Secretary of State
  • Calvin L. Rampton, former governor of the State of Utah
  • Lester del Rey, science fiction writer
  • Harry Reid, Democratic politician
  • George W. Romney, 43rd Governor of Michigan and Development Minister
  • Paul Grant Rogers, politicians
  • Mikheil Saakashvili, the Georgian president
  • Grant Sawyer, former governor of the U.S. state of Nevada
  • Gary Sick, professor of International Relations at Columbia University
  • Robert E. Smylie, former governor of the state of Idaho
  • John M. Shalikashvili, 13, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater investigators in transactions
  • Matthew Williams Stirling, ethnologist
  • William O. Studeman, former director of the Secret National Security Agency
  • Howard Sutherland, Republican politicians
  • Joe Skubitz, Republican politicians
  • Frederick Perry Stanton, 1857 Governor of the Kansas Territory
  • Thomas Swann, former Governor of the State of Maryland
  • Rhee Syng -man, first president of South Korea
  • Clyde Tolson, associate director of the FBI
  • Margaret Truman Daniel, actress and author
  • Murray Waas, Journalist
  • E. S. Johnny Walker, politicians
  • Mark R. Warner, former Governor of Virginia
  • John Warner, former United States Secretary of the Navy
  • Kerry Washington, Actress
  • Elton Watkins, politicians
  • James Edwin Webb, former director of NASA
  • Guilford Wiley Wells, politicians
  • Compton I. White junior politician
  • William L. Wilson, politicians
  • Scott Wolf, actor
  • Bob Woodward, a journalist in the Watergate scandal
  • Ghazi al - Yawar, Iraqi Vice President
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