Archive: News Story

• Soyica Colbert Appointed Vice Dean

  Soyica Colbert (C’01) has been appointed Vice Dean. Her appointment will start in January 2020.

  Category: News Story Tags: Dean's Office, Faculty, Humanities Initiative, Performing Arts, Psychology, Research

• Philosophy Professor Partners with CSET, Receives Grant

  Philosophy Professor Maggie Little of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Jason Matheny, founding executive director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University, recently won a grant for their collaborative project, “Embedding Ethics for Career Training in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence.”

  Category: News Story Tags: Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Faculty, Grants, Philosophy

• College Faculty Honored with President’s Awards for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers

  These awards commend faculty who were nominated by their students and faculty peers for outstanding service to our community and to the Academy as exemplary scholar-teachers, embodying Georgetown’s mission as a student-centered research University.

  Category: News Story Tags: Faculty, History, Humanities Initiative, Linguistics, Research, Spanish and Portuguese, Teaching

• Pireddu to lead Georgetown Humanities Initiative

  Nicoletta Pireddu, a professor in the Department of Italian and an expert in Comparative Literature, will be the inaugural director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative starting January 2020.

  Category: News Story Tags: Comparative Literature, Faculty, Humanities Initiative, Italian, Research

• Scientists Mark First Evidence That Dolphins Give Birth in Potomac River

  The first evidence that the Potomac River is a breeding area for wild bottlenose dolphins has been gathered by graduate students working with Georgetown biologist and dolphin expert Janet Mann.

  Category: News Story Tags: Alumni, Biology, Environmental Initiative, Research, Science, STEM

• Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined opens at Georgetown University Art Galleries

  Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined is the first exhibition to recognize a fresh approach to addressing the current state of our depleted and polluted environment; an extreme and inventive kind of upcycling.

  Category: News Story Tags: Art & Art History, Environmental Initiative, Galleries, Humanities Initiative, Performing Arts, Sustainability

• Ecological Crisis: U.S., Canada Lost One in Four Birds in the Past 50 Years

  Nearly 3 billion birds have disappeared from the United States and Canada since 1970, according to a study published today in Science, co-authored by Georgetown Environment Initiative (GEI) director and Laudato Si’ Professor in Biology and the Environment Peter Marra.

  Category: News Story Tags: Biology, Faculty, Research

• Top Five Climate Change Concerns Voiced by Environmental, Global Experts

  Five faculty experts weigh in on their top concerns for the environment and climate change in keeping with the university’s commitment to sustainability and Pope Francis’ environmental Laudato Si’ encyclical.

  Category: News Story Tags: Biology, Faculty, History, Jesuit Values, Research

• Major Crises Can Turn Democracies Into Dictatorships, Book Claims

  Crisis incidents have the potential to turn a democracy into a dictatorship, even in a country like America, Psychology professor Fathali Moghaddam contends in his latest book.

  Category: News Story Tags: Books, Faculty, Psychology, Research

• Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship Goes to Surfing College Alumna

  Georgetown College alumna and expert surfer Emi Koch (C’12), who was National Geographic 2018 Adventurer of the Year, is now a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow.

  Category: News Story Tags: Alumni, Anthropology, Jesuit Values, Psychology, Research