GW's Economic Contributions in Virginia

Barcroft Park
GW’s public-private partnership with Arlington County has brought baseball, community development and revenue to Barcroft Park since 1993. With $3 million in refurbishments in 2012 and a 20-year agreement, GW will pay all upgrade costs, split annual maintenance costs with the community and provide local residents with access to the park 75% of the time.

Discovery Hall
The 21,000 square feet Discovery Hall is the newest addition to VSTC’s campus innovations. Discovery Hall is equipped with teaching wet labs and related facilities, a physics scale-up lab, and a multi-purpose video-teleconferencing classroom (VTC) that will hold a minimum of 60 people and student study and gathering spaces.

New Nursing Simulation Lab
In 2015, GW cut the ribbon on its new Johnson Lab, a 3,000-square-foot virtual hospital populated by static and mid-fidelity mannequins that simulate patients—from infants to the elderly. The lifelike mannequins help nursing students practice the full scope of their clinical work and become among their profession’s best-trained leaders.

GW Center for Data Analytics
In 2015, GW and Telos Corporation signed a five-year agreement to support research and development projects that use high-performance computing to focus on key issues of national significance: cyber and physical security, and how algorithms and analytic tools can solve some of the major challenges facing the United States.

Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (AND) Institute
Created in partnership with Children’s National Medical Center and a $5 million investment from the university, (AND) Institute is poised to become one of the nation’s leading cross-disciplinary projects related to autism and neurodevelopmental disorders.