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The George Washington University (GW, GWU, or George Washington) is a private, coeducational examination college spotted in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The college was sanctioned by an Act of Congress on February 9, 1821, as the Columbian College in the District of Columbia. In Feb 1904, it transformed its name to the George Washington University to pay tribute to George Washington, the first President of the United States.
    It is the biggest establishment of advanced education in the
 District of Columbia. The college recompenses undergrad and graduate degrees in a few trains through every last bit of its ten separate schools. GWU's  Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, Elliott School of International Affairs, Milken Institute School of Public Health, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the
 School of Nursing offer undergrad and graduate degrees. 
     The college additionally has specific schools inside universities, for example, the School of
 Media and Public Affairs and the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. GWU is reliably positioned by The Princeton Review in the top "Most Politically Active" Schools.
      A significant number of the college's graduates have gone ahead to high positions inside both 
the United States Government and in outside governments. Prominent graduated class incorporate 
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, previous Secretary of State Colin Powell, previous First-Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and previous FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. 
         There are as of now four George Washington University graduated class serving in the
 United States Senate, nine serving in the United States House of Representatives, and ten serving as United States diplomats. The games groups and present and previous understudies as a rule are called "Colonials". Baptist minister and driving clergyman Luther Rice raised trusts to buy a site for a school to instruct natives from all through the youthful country in Washington, D.C. 
          An expansive building was built on College Hill, which is currently known as Meridian Hill, and on February 9, 1821, President James Monroe affirmed the congressional sanction making the non-denominational Columbian College in the District of Columbia. The primary initiation in 1824 was viewed as an imperative occasion for the youthful city of Washington, D.C. In participation were President Monroe, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Marquis de Lafayette and different dignitaries. Amid the Civil War, most understudies left
to join the Confederacy and the school's structures were utilized as a healing center and garisson huts. Walt Whitman was among huge numbers of the volunteers to take a shot at the grounds. 
       Taking after the war, in 1873, Columbian College turned into the Columbian University and moved to a urban downtown area focused on fifteenth and H lanes, NW.  George Washington, the college's namesake In 1904, Columbian University transformed its name to the George Washington University in a concurrence with the George Washington Memorial Association to manufacture a grounds assembling out of appreciation for the first U.S. president. Not the college or the affiliation had the capacity raise enough cash for the proposed building close to the National Mall; be that as it may, the establishment held the name.
       Inevitably the affiliation gave the remaining subsidizes that had been raised to the college for the advancement of Lisner Auditorium. The college moved its main operations to the D.C. neighborhood of Foggy Bottom in 1912. The George Washington University, in the same way as a lot of Washington, D.C., follows a considerable lot of its beginnings once more to the Freemasons. The Bible that the presidents of the college utilization to make a solemn vow on upon introduction is the Bible of Freemason George Washington.
     Freemasonry images are unmistakably shown all through the grounds including the establishment stones of large portions of the college structures. A significant number of the Colleges of the George Washington University emerge for their age and history. The Law School is the most seasoned graduate school in the District of Columbia. The School of Medicine and Health Sciences is the eleventh most established restorative school in the country.  The Columbian College was established in 1821, and is the most seasoned unit of the college. 
       The Elliott School of International Affairs was formalized in 1898. Most of the present framework and budgetary security at GW is because of the residencies of Presidents Cloyd Heck Marvin, Lloyd Hartman Elliott and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. In the 1930s, the college was a significant community for hypothetical material science. 
           The cosmologist George Gamow delivered discriminating take a shot at the Big Bang
 hypothesis at GW in the 1930s and 1940s. In a standout among st the most critical minutes in the twentieth century, Niels Bohr reported that Otto Hahn had effectively part the particle on January 26, 1939, at the Fifth Washington Conference on hypothetical physical science in the Hall of Government. 
    As indicated by grounds old stories, amid the Vietnam War period, Mabel Thurston Hall, an undergrad quarters lodging 1,116 understudies was an arranging ground for Student Anti-War Demonstrations (at 1900 F Street NW, the building is 3 squares from the White House). In 1996, the college obtained the Mount Vernon College for Women in the city's Palisades neighborhood that turned into the school's coeducational Mount Vernon Campus.
              The grounds was initially used in 1997 for ladies just, however got to be co-instructive in a 
matter of years. The Mount Vernon grounds is presently completely incorporated into the GW group, serving as a supplement to the Foggy Bottom grounds. In December 2006, the college named Johns Hopkins University executive Steven Knapp its next president. He started his administration on August 1, 2007.
 The George Washington University has three completely incorporated grounds in the D.C. territory. These are the Foggy Bottom Campus, the Mount Vernon Campus, and the Virginia Science and Technology Campus. 
     The Foggy Bottom Campus houses the greater part of scholastic programming. Living arrangement lobbies exist on the Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon grounds. The George Washington University library framework contains the Gelman Library, the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, the Burns Law Library, the Eckles Memorial Library, and the Virginia Science and Technology Library. ...

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