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Free Financial Literacy Seminars for Graduating Seniors

March 29, 2022Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured, Uncategorized

The Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC) and GW Professor Annamaria Lusardi are offering a free 5 week series for graduating seniors. The seminars will cover a variety of topics from taking advantage of compound interest, the relationship between return and risk in investing, and maximizing FICO scores. These seminars are a great opportunity for graduating seniors getting ready to navigate the important financial decisions of their early careers. The seminars will be fun and informative and no previous experience or knowledge is required!

Each of the first four sessions will be offered twice on Fridays and Saturdays in person starting April 8th and running through April 23. The final seminar will be online on April 29. In addition to information on personal finance, lunch will be provided at the in person sessions.

More registration and more information can be found here. Sign up for food, finance, and fun!

CORCORAN ART HISTORY // SUMMER 2022 COURSE OFFERINGS

March 23, 2022March 29, 2022Community Life, Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured

Want to take art history classes during the summer? Corcoran Art History is offering three classes this summer that will count toward an Arts & Humanities requirement! The three classes are titled:

CAH 4139 / 6232: Dutch Masters: Refinement & Revelry

CAH 4189 / 6234: Francisco Goya: Enlightenment to Napoleonic Era

CAH 4169 / 6269: Queer Art & Visual Culture

If you have any questions, please contact Jasmine Williams (jwilliams25@gwu.edu) or Brianna Crayton (bcrayton@email.gwu.edu).

Download the flyer below here: SU22 Course Advert

Moot Court Team Tryouts

March 22, 2022Competitions, Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured, Openings and Opportunities

Are you a GW student interested in law? Politics? Current events? Then we would encourage you to try-out for the GW Undergraduate Moot Court Team!

The Moot Court team is an organization that encourages collaboration and community, all while embracing a competitive nature that harnesses the talent of our team members. At competition, students are given the opportunity to explore some of the most relevant questions in constitutional law while being judged by real professors and lawyers! As a fairly new team, they have undergone some recent restructuring, but they are more ready than ever to tackle the next season of competition.

If you are interested in learning more about Moot Court, you’re invited to join them at the following information sessions:

March 27th from 1pm-3pm at District B117,

March 31st from 2pm-4pm at District B117,

April 1st from 1pm-3pm at District B206.

Please attend at least one of their informational sessions prior to attending try-outs. Also, please fill out the following form to receive updates about information sessions and tryouts: https://forms.gle/nQMqVxhhRjWvmQuQ9.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to gwmoot@gmail.com.

Honors in-person Research Showcase!

March 14, 2022March 15, 2022Community Life, Competitions, Events, Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured

Save the date UHPers! On Friday April 22nd at 1PM – 3PM ET, we will be hosting our annual UHP Research Showcase in COR 101A to learn all about the amazing work UHP students have been doing this year. The showcase will consist of an hour of oral presentations followed by a reception and posters session. All students, faculty and staff are welcome! We particularly encourage attendance by any students who are beginning to plan their own theses!

If you have engaged in any research this year – including work associated with a research assistantship or your Honors Senior Thesis – please sign up here to present your work as either an oral presentation or poster (submission deadline: April 8th). There will be a few small gift card prizes awarded for the best presentations, including a “Director’s prize” and an “audience favorite”!

Tulane Journal Research Submission

March 7, 2022Extracurricular Opportunity, Openings and Opportunities

Do you want to have your own original research published? The Tulane Journal of Policy and Political Economy is accepting article submissions for their next edition!

The Tulane Journal is an internationally-recognized undergraduate publication focusing on original student research in politics, economics, and public health. Submitted articles are reviewed by a 50-person faculty-review panel, and those that are accepted are published in print and online. Previous editions have received submissions from universities across four continents and are indexed in the Library of Congress.

They are officially partnered with the Tulane Departments of Political Science and Economics, the Tulane Murphy Institute, the Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, and the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) Societies of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.

To learn more, visit https://www.tulanejournal.org/.

If you are interested in submitting your research, please click this link www.tulanejournal.org/submit.

Kalos Academy Opportunity

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured, Openings and Opportunities

Hey UHPers! Bri Mirabile has an opportunity for anyone interested in volunteering to mentor first generation, low-income college students. Bri is a past UHPer and current Vice President of Mentorship Operations and Success at Kalos Academy, a small but fast-growing non-profit started by a former GW professor. It’s growing so fast that it’s going to need steady sources of mentors at multiple college campuses as well as someone who would be interested in helping them establish Kalos as a club at GW – or anyone who just wants to mentor! For more information you can visit their website. If you’re interested, please reach out to Bri at mentors@kalosacademy.org!

Sustainability Research Fellow Program

February 9, 2022Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured, Openings and Opportunities

UHPers,

The GW Sustainability Institute is now accepting applications for a new Undergrad Sustainability Research Fellow program!

The Undergraduate Sustainability Fellows are a cohort of undergraduate students from diverse academic disciplines who will engage in a year-long learning, research, and action program that addresses a sustainability issue on campus by focusing on campus life and the student experience. The team of instructors for the program will work with the Office of Sustainability to identify relevant campus sustainability issues from which the Fellows will select topics to work on for the year. The Fellows will work in teams and will have the support of faculty and staff to design and implement solutions. The GW Sustainability Institute will provide financing to support student research efforts and carry out the solutions as needed.

The application deadline is March 11th.

The program description and application for the Research Fellows program are now live! Please send any questions to Zoe Garbis (zoegarbis@gwmail.gwu.edu).

Leadership for Liberation!

January 19, 2022Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured, Openings and Opportunities

GW Student Life has a new addition to the Leadership Exploration Certificate program: the Leadership for Liberation track! The Leadership for Liberation framework focuses on identifying and dismantling the systems, structures, and cultural norms that are the heart of our most challenging societal problems.

The Leadership for Liberation track is a two-month program that will do a deep dive into the framework of the same name. Participants will meet weekly on Tuesdays from 6 to 7:30 PM starting on February 1 and should expect to:

Engage in a deep dive into the Leadership for Liberation framework through applied activities and discussions;
Establish and build a community of peers that are dedicated to serving as socially just and equitable leaders;
Increase their knowledge in leadership development and social justice concepts; and
Reflect on their personal leadership journeys while setting goals for their socially responsible leadership in the future

The application for the program is open now and closes on Sunday, January 30 at 11:59 EST. Space in the program is limited!

For more information on this or the other tracks in the Leadership Exploration Certificate, please visit go.gwu.edu/LEC2022 or contact Andrea Davis, Student Program Associate for Leadership at andreadavis@gwu.edu.

Become a Member of Phi Sigma Pi, National Honors Fraternity

September 9, 2020Community Life, Extracurricular Opportunity, Student Voices

Phi Sigma Pi (PSP) is a national gender-inclusive honors fraternity. Our community is built on the values of scholarship, leadership, and fellowship. All members share a passion for their studies, being leaders in their communities, and fostering friendships in our chapter. Our organization is made up of students from a diverse set of backgrounds, countries, and fields of study. Many honors college students past and present have found a home here in PSP. Anyone with a GPA of 3.0 or greater can come to recruitment regardless of their class year. In fact, many of our members joined Sophomore or Junior year. If you’re interested in learning more, we will be holding information sessions the week of the 13^th of September. To sign up for an information session or learn more about what makes PSP so special check our website. For any questions feel free to email: askgwpsp@gmail.com.

Cornerstone Research open Analyst and Summer Analyst positions

September 3, 2020September 8, 2020Extracurricular Opportunity, Job/Internship Opportunity, Openings and Opportunities

Cornerstone Research is recruiting on campus this fall to fill open Analyst and Summer Analyst positions. Cornerstone Research is an economic and financial consulting firm that provides expert testimony in high-profile litigation cases. Please join us virtually for our upcoming events.

We will be on campus for the following:

Information Session, September 9^th 7 – 8:30 PM, register via Handshake and let us know you’re coming here
Careers in Economics, September 10^th, 4 – 5 PM, GW Economics Department event
Career Fair, September 11^th, 12 – 3, register for group and one-on-one sessions via Handshake and let us know you’re coming here
Career Week: Peer in Residence Coffee Chats, September 16^th, 9 – 1, register via Handshake

Cornerstone would like to invite interested students at GW to apply for our Analyst and Summer Analyst positions. Detailed descriptions of the roles can be found on our website: https://www.cornerstone.com/Careers/analyst.

Please be aware of the application deadlines below.

Analyst: September 20^th at 11:59 pm
Summer Analyst: September 27^th at 11:59 pm

As a quick introduction to our firm and culture, Cornerstone:

Recruits students from all majors; we find that our most successful analysts have a demonstrated interest in research and desire to learn complex economic and financial concepts
Works across industries including antitrust, healthcare, finance, intellectual property, and securities and has a generalist model that provides analysts with opportunities across sectors
Maintains a positive work-life balance, supporting our diverse staff, with a strong analyst culture

This, combined with the firm’s long-standing relationships with our clients, makes Cornerstone an ideal place to start a career. Analysts from Cornerstone often go on to top M.B.A., J.D., or Ph.D. graduate programs or proceed directly into technology, business, finance, or nonprofit work.

In addition, this year we will be hosting a virtual case competition for undergraduate students. The case competition is an opportunity for students to develop teamwork skills, showcase their analytical skills, and gain experience with the types of cases that we work on at Cornerstone Research. Additionally, participants will gain greater exposure with people at the firm. The kickoff meeting for the case competition will be on Thursday, September 10^th at 6:30pm, please see the attached flyer for more information, or reach out to Alexis Cirrotti (acirrotti@cornerstone.com) with any questions.