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TAKOMA PARK, MD – Washington Adventist University (WAU) has been honored with the prestigious NAIA Champions of Character Five-Star Institution Award for the 2023-2024 academic year. This accolade recognizes WAU’s unwavering commitment to fostering a culture of integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship, and servant leadership within its athletics programs and across its campus community. The NAIA (National …

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Takoma Park, MD – Washington Adventist University (WAU) has been approved for Maryland’s Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund (CCCPDF) grant for the 2024-2025 school year. This grant will cover 100% of tuition and fees for recipients, supporting early childhood care providers in furthering their education. WAU offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in …

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TAKOMA PARK, Md. — Dirk Whatley, the accomplished enrollment leader at Washington Adventist University (WAU), has been elected as the President-Elect of the Urban Enrollment Association, part of the Adventist Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU). This esteemed position recognizes Whatley’s significant contributions to the field of enrollment and marketing within the Adventist education system. …

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Twelve Washington Adventist University (WAU) team members, led by university president Dr. Weymouth Spence, traveled to Mandeville, Jamaica, to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Northern Caribbean University (NCU). The MOU between Northern Caribbean University (NCU) and Washington Adventist University (WAU) was born from discussions with the Jamaican Ambassador to the USA, Audrey Patrice …

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COLUMBIA, MD – Washington Adventist University is pleased to announce the North American Division Hispanic Scholarship Fund, designed to provide financial aid for full-time graduate and post-graduate Hispanic students who are based in the North American Division. This fund is intended for faithful Seventh-day Adventist Church members in good standing, whose financial resources are inadequate …

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TAKOMA PARK, MD – Washington Adventist University’s Athletics Director Jerod Lyons proudly announced recently that Erica Calhoun has been named Sports Information Director (SID) of the Year for the Continental Athletic Conference. This historic achievement marks the first time a SID from Washington Adventist University (WAU) has received this distinguished recognition. “I am thrilled to …

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Washington Adventist University’s Pro Musica recently achieved significant milestones during the 2023-2024 academic year.  Starting with an invitation to collaborate with MidAmerica Productions and the New England Symphonic Ensemble on the Carnegie Hall Stage in December of 2023, the ensemble anchored the collaborative endeavor in rendering the Magnificat by John Rutter.  This was a beautiful …

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On June 2-12, thirteen student missionaries, mostly recent graduates of the class of 2024 and two working on their degrees, along with two faculty members, went to El Salvador for a mission trip. It was the school’s first mission trip since the COVID-19 pandemic. The trip was led by Professor Alvin Fuentes from the Health, …

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As the 2023-24 academic year wrapped up in early May, Jonathan Scriven, the Associate Director of the Honors College, was beginning to think about exams. Not exams for his international relations and political studies courses at WAU – those were already finished. Instead, his focus turned the French national exam – the ‘baccalaureate’ — given …

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TAKOMA PARK, Md. — Washington Adventist University (WAU) student Ava Movahed Abtahi has recently distinguished herself through her participation in several prestigious events at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Ava’s presentations at the Membrane Organelle Dynamics Symposium, the 2024 Fellows Scientific Training, and the Annual Post-Bacc Poster Day have earned her recognition and left …

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