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View All NewsCourse Looks at the Intersections of Three Faiths
For Erin Kilbride (C'12), taking a course taught by a priest, rabbi and imam makes the class a more open and comfortable setting to ask the "hard questions" about faith, culture, justice and peace.
Innovation Focus of Faculty Convocation
How universities will need to change to accommodate future teaching and learning innovations served as the topic of Georgetown's Fall Faculty Convocation on Oct. 28.
Alumna Leslie Little’s New Book Connects Mind and Heart
On October 20th, Dean Chester Gillis welcomed Georgetown College alumna Leslie Little back to campus for the Washington, D.C. release of her new book Paris Icons. Speaking to a packed audience in Riggs Library, Little described her book—a large format fine art coffee table book that marries quotes about Paris with expressive photography—as a "high touch (publication) in a high tech world."
Georgetown Among Top Fulbright Producers
For the second year in a row, Georgetown University ranks as one of the top-producers of U.S. Fulbright Fellows at research universities.
Physics Professor James Freericks Wins National Book Award
In early October, the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Alpha Sigma Nu, the honor society of Jesuit colleges and universities, awarded a 2009 National Book Award in the category of the sciences to Georgetown Physics professor James Freericks for his book Transport in Multilayered Nanostructures: The Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Approach. Freericks feels especially honored by this award, he explained, because it is rare for a book geared for science experts to be awarded a book prize.
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Professor of Psychology Steven Sabat is an innovator in the research of Alzheimer's Disease.
