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Engineering Better Care: Student Teams Showcase Design Projects at NEBEC 2025

May 9, 2025

At the 2025 Northeast Bioengineering Conference, two student teams from GW Engineering presented their innovative capstone projects, with one team winning a Best Senior Project Design Award.

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Global Experts in Energy and Thermal Fluids Convene at GW for 10th Annual TFEC

May 8, 2025

GW Engineering’s MAE Department took the lead in hosting the 10th annual Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, which brought leaders from more than 20 countries across six continents to GW.

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Engineered in DC: GW Engineering’s Innovations with Impact on Display at GW’s Inaugural InnovationFest

May 8, 2025

Members of the GW Engineering community played a key role at GW’s inaugural InnovationFest, showcasing cutting-edge research, student innovation, and impactful tech solutions.

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Carl Landwehr of GW’s CSPRI Wins 2025 CRA Distinguished Service Award

May 7, 2025

Carl Landwehr of GW’s Cyber Security & Privacy Research Institute earned one of the highest honors in the computing research field: the Computing Research Association’s 2025 Distinguished Service Award.

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Xitong Liu Honored by AAEES for Breakthroughs in Water Purification and Resource Extraction

May 6, 2025

Liu's impactful work in sustainable water purification and resource extraction earned him an American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists’ 2025 40 Under 40 Award.

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Researchers Advance Methods for Detecting Coordinated Social Media Posting

May 5, 2025

GW Engineering researchers co-authored a study that advances methods to detect coordinated link sharing on Facebook, helping expose manipulation by malicious actors.

ART-Med Lab's Go2 robotic dog at GW's InnovationFest

GW’s First InnovationFest Spotlights Engineering and Campus-Wide Research

May 5, 2025

GW Engineering joined over 150 scholars at the inaugural InnovationFest, showcasing groundbreaking research from labs and student projects across campus.

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Recognizing GW Engineering’s Top Academic Achievers of 2025

May 2, 2025

GW Engineering’s highest-achieving undergraduate students for the 2024-2025 academic year were recognized at GW’s annual Academic Honors Ceremony on April 22.

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Alumnus Rick Wagner Featured on “CEOs You Should Know”

May 2, 2025

Rick Wagner, CEO of Agile Defense and GW Engineering alumnus, discusses his leadership journey and mission-driven innovation on iHeartRadio’s “CEOs You Should Know.”

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Celebrating Immersive Tech and Student Collaboration at XRperience @ GW

May 1, 2025

On April 11, students and faculty from across GW gathered in the Science and Engineering Hall for XRperience @ GW, a high-energy showcase of augmented reality and virtual reality.

GW graduate students Adrian Outlaw (l) and Christine Wenzel both gave an elevator pitch of their prototypes at the New Venture Competition annual awards ceremony on April 10 at Jack Morton Auditorium. Outlaw won second place in the Business Goods and Services Track, while Wenzel won the Best Storytelling prize. (Cara Taylor/GW Today)

Graduate Student Adrian Outlaw's Hydrogen Engine Recognized at New Venture Competition

April 30, 2025

GW Engineering grad student Adrian Outlaw won second place in the Business Goods and Services Track at the New Venture Competition for his hydrogen engine prototype.