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  • Professor Karah Knope with members of her laboratory by the Potomac River in Georgetown
    Knope Receives Early Career Award
    July 12, 2018
    Professor Karah Knope of the Georgetown College Department of Chemistry has been named a recipient of a 2018 Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy.
  • White-Gravenor Hall
    Lorenson, Jiménez Assume New Roles
    June 28, 2018
    Senior Associate Dean Sue Lorenson will take on a new role as Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education, and Assistant Dean Javier Jiménez will move from his current role advising first-years and sophomores into a new role advising juniors and seniors.
  • Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University
    Green Receives Grant to Study Neurological Image of God
    June 22, 2018
    Psychology professor Adam Green has received a three-year, $925,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study the neural activity associated with thoughts on God.
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