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GW Engineering senior Isabella Perusse is using environmental engineering to serve communities from leading an Engineers Without Borders water project in India to organizing GW’s MLK Day of Service with 700 volunteers. Read more: go.gwu.edu/is9

February’s #GWEngineering Local Hero is London Faust, Assistant Director for Undergraduate Academic Advising and Student Success. With 5 years at GW, London is dedicated to student growth and success. 👏 Learn more about him: go.gwu.edu/jc8

How do we measure AI’s performance, risk & real-world impact? 🤖 Find out at TRAILSCon 2026, March 4–5 at GW. Panels, roundtables & workshops focused on responsible AI design & governance. 🔗 Register: go.gwu.edu/trailscon #TRAILSCon2026 #AI #ResponsibleAI #FutureOfTech

When science meets art 🍵📸 In “Food, Flow & Photography,” 15 GW students blended fluid dynamics, cooking & visual storytelling, capturing the hidden physics of chocolate, candy, coffee & more. See their innovative projects ⬇️ go.gwu.edu/uwv

GW Engineering Professor Tian Lan has been named TPC co-chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2026—one of the top conferences in computer networking. The appointment highlights his global leadership and research impact. Read more: go.gwu.edu/uev

📢Launching the GW Engineering AI Academy: a six‑month, cohort‑based program where faculty move from tools to workflows, and from anxiety to confident, responsible AI leadership in teaching and research engineering.gwu.edu/ai-academy

#StudentSpotlight GW Engineering student Aidan Schurr co-founded The Catalyst, a student-led interdisciplinary STEM magazine. In just one year, it’s grown nearly 4x 🔥 Learn more about The Catalyst: go.gwu.edu/2r0

GW continues to shine as a national research hub, hosting the 2025 NSF SaTC Aspiring PI Workshop and welcoming 65+ early career faculty to campus to learn how cybersecurity research gets funded 💻 🔐 Read more: go.gwu.edu/19r

#StudentSpotlight: GW Engineering Ph.D. students Samarpan Deb Majumder & Zhaoyang Wang won the 2025 New Venture Competition & DC Startup Tech Week with LayerPure, a startup reinventing water filtration. 👏 Read more: go.gwu.edu/v52

⚡ GW ECE students are building the tech behind AI, chips, power systems, and connectivity. Check out the department brochure to see how ECE is powering a smarter future: go.gwu.edu/49w

🌱 GW CEE students are working on clean water, smart infrastructure, and climate resilience. Check out the department brochure to see how CEE is shaping resilient futures: go.gwu.edu/yeu

💻 GW Computer Science is building tech that matters, from privacy & security to healthcare and culture. Check out the department brochure to see how CS is driving GW Engineering’s momentum: go.gwu.edu/moi

🌍 GW EMSE students are solving complex challenges from AI & public health to climate and infrastructure, using systems thinking. Check out their latest dept. brochure for highlights from 2025: go.gwu.edu/7hf

MAE at GW is interdisciplinary innovation in action. From robotics and energy systems to autonomous tech and advanced manufacturing, see how MAE students & faculty are fueling real-world impact in their latest dept. brochure: go.gwu.edu/4m1

🧬GW Biomedical Engineering = small classes, hands-on research, and real medical impact. From cancer therapies to brain and heart research, look through their annual brochure to see how BME students & faculty are pushing healthcare forward: go.gwu.edu/9g0

GW Today highlighted a dinner hosted by President Ellen M. Granberg celebrating the $11M investment in GW’s Clark Scholars Program. Read more: go.gwu.edu/c5s

🚭 A new GW study shows that a ChatGPT-based tool called BeFreeBot could help people quit smoking. Many participants made at least one quit attempt during the study. Read the full article here: go.gwu.edu/pfu

EMSE Professor John Helveston and GW students created surveydown, an open-source survey tool built in six weeks with help from LLMs. It’s now been downloaded thousands of times and adopted worldwide. Read more: go.gwu.edu/scc

New Research Alert! Prof. Gina Adam received a $5.8M DOE grant as part of a collab with UD and Duke. Her GW team will develop neuromorphic circuit components using CMOS and memristors to advance next-gen brain-inspired computing for scientific applications. Congrats to the team!

More than 75 alumni, students & families joined GW Engineering’s annual Open House during this year’s ’90s-themed Alumni & Families Weekend! 📸 Explore the highlights from Alumni & Families Weekend ➡️ go.gwu.edu/bwh