The Washington Center hosted Former Vice President, Dick Cheney, for the Alan K. Simpson-Norman Y. Mineta Leaders Series (SMLS). Only a month after his heart transplant, Dick Cheney was the featured speaker during a one-hour discussion moderated by senior producer of C-SPAN, Steve Scully.   | View Full Article

The Prudential Foundation Global Citizens Program, a cohort of 26 international students from India, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, attended a two-day site visit from April 19-20 at Prudential Financial headquarters in Newark, New Jersey.   The students were competitively selected for this program to represent their countries. They had the opportunity to meet with and learn from a number of Prudential executives during their trip including:   | View Full Article

Each semester, students from all over the 50 states have the unique opportunity to meet and interact with members of Congress or Senate who represent their state or congressional district through the PPDCH program. Unfortunately for international students, they can't participate in this unique opportunity. That is why the PPDCH program put together a special PPDCH program for Canadian students on April 16th at the RAF.   Canadian students heard from:   | View Full Article

Janet H. Brown is the executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, a tax-exempt organization that was established in 1987 to sponsor and produce presidential and vice presidential debates during each general-election period. Brown talked about presidential debates.   | View Full Article

After meeting with the President of Brazil, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Franciso Sanchez, met with TWC students participating in the Governors and Prudential programs at TWC's Residential and Academic Facility. He discussed key topics such as competitiveness, innovation, economic growth and access.   [View photos of the event on our Flickr channel] | View Full Article

The Law and Criminal Justice program (LCJ) co-hosted a panel on the Affordable Care Act and the Recent Supreme Court Oral Arguments focusing on the Act. The event, which was held at the University of California's DC Center Auditorium, featured two fantastic speakers:   | View Full Article