Scholarship Recipients

Success Stories

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  SPA Alum Griffin Helps New England Students

  Chip Griffin, SPA/BA ’94, cofounder and CEO of Custom Scoop online news clipping service, made a $100,000 gift to create an endowed scholarship supporting SPA students from New England states.
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  Erin M. Fuller

  Erin M. Fuller, SPA/BA '93, SPA/MPA '94, president at The Coulter Companies and on the AU Alumni Board, came to AU to study music, but changed her major to political science after her first government class and a tour of the Hill. 
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  Rosen Scholarship Supports MPA Candidates

  The Rosen Scholarship will provide scholarship support to a full-time graduate student in the MPA program.
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  Soaking Up Chinese Culture, in Beijing and Hong Kong

  Ye Wang, a recipient of the Masonic Foundation of the District of Columbia's Stewart W. Miner Scholarship and the James Edward Miller Chapman Scholarship, is spending some time beyond the beltway.
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  Jim McGovern Honored with
  2008 Alumni Achievement Award

  Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovern CAS/BA’81, SPA/MPA’84, received the 2008 Alumni Achievement Award on October 25, 2008 after an exemplary career on the Hill.
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  AU Alumna Makes a Difference as Leader of D.C. YMCA

  The YMCA is in a bit of everything Angie Reese-Hawkins, SOC/BA ’79, does.  As President and CEO of the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., she is busy developing new programs.