Past Celebrations
2025 Celebration Highlights
Check out full coverage from the 2025 Celebration, including:
- Livestreamed Video Recording
- Celebration Program
- Distinguished Speaker
- Student Speaker
- Awards
Commencement Stories
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Commencement 2025: Reliving the Moments
Congratulations again to our 2025 graduates! You are now part of GW’s extensive alumni network with more than 320,000 alumni in over 150 countries. Our 2025 Commencement season highlights include a photo gallery, a video replay of the livestreamed CPS Graduation Celebration ceremony, celebration program download, distinguished speaker and student speaker information and 2025 award winners.
- 2024
2024 Toast the Network & Alumni Achievement Awards
The GSPM community gathered May 15 to celebrate the achievements of our 2024 Alumni Achievement Award Winners and toast the graduating students.
2024 Paralegal Graduates Inducted into LEX Honor Society
We extend our heartfelt congratulations to the 2024 inductees of Lambda Epsilon Chi (LEX), the esteemed national honor society for paralegals.
Sustainable Urban Planning Students Showcase Capstone Projects
Four spring 2024 graduates presented their Capstone Projects May 10th to an enthusiastic audience of students, alumni and faculty, as well as family and friends. The Capstone is the culminating experience for students in the master’s program in Sustainable Urban Planning (SUP). Students complete individual projects to showcase the knowledge, skills and abilities they have learned.
2024 Founding Dean Arterton Awardee: Lillie Thurman
The Founding Dean Arterton Award is given to the graduating student who epitomizes professional distinction and ethical conduct in political management.
2024 Dr. Richard F. Southby Police Science Prize Awardee: Elizabeth Chen
The Dr. Richard F. Southby Police Science Prize is presented to an exceptional graduating student from the Bachelor of Professional Studies in Homeland Security program.
2024 Graduate Distinguished Scholar Awardee: Casey Aimer
The Distinguished Scholar Awards recognize the undergraduate and graduate students who best demonstrate the college’s core competencies of strategic thinking, communication, collaboration, leadership, and ethics.
2024 Undergraduate Distinguished Scholar Awardee: Christopher Linares
The Distinguished Scholar Awards recognize the undergraduate and graduate students who best demonstrate the college’s core competencies of strategic thinking, communication, collaboration, leadership, and ethics.
2024 Mark And Debbie Kennedy Frontiers Of Freedom Awardee: Guillermo Alejandro Noriega Esparza
The is award recognizes the GSPM graduating student who best exhibits actions to promote or protect the expansion of political and economic freedom beyond the borders of the United States.
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