In the article "GW’s Presidential Fellowship for Leadership Program Gives Graduate Students Multiple Benefits," GW Today highlights the current cohort of fellows in GW's Presidential Fellowship for Leadership, including civil and environmental engineering graduate student Jack Hatcher, B.S. ’24, and the benefits they gain through this program. The piece details their efforts to build a database that connects graduate students through their research interests. Supported by an $11,500 grant from the Luther Rice Foundation, they aim to foster interdisciplinary research and create new opportunities for growth and connection for graduate students across the university. Hatcher highlighted the potential for this tool to bridge the gap between engineering research and policy work.
Here is an excerpt from the article: “In the School of Engineering, I did research in water and water resources,” Hatcher said, “and there are people over in the Elliott School working on water policy. I didn't know those people existed!”
Read the full article on GW Today.