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Senior Completes Two Theses on Women’s Health, Plans to Work in Medical Equity After Graduation

Biology of Global Health and Spanish double major Grace Keegan (C’21) is an unstoppable force. In addition to completing two theses that focus on women’s health, the senior…

April 26, 2021

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Alumna Finalist for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for an Environmental Play

Theater and Performance Studies alumna Miranda Rose Hall (C’11) is a 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist for her work, A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction. One…

April 22, 2021

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Two Georgetown Professors Receive Prestigious Whiting Award for Fiction, Nonfiction

The Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing Tope Folarin and the Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Planetary Science Sarah Stewart Johnson were selected for…

April 21, 2021

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Asian Studies Program and Partners Convene Panel on Addressing Anti-Asian Racism

In an April 16 event, Georgetown University’s Asian Studies Program (ASP) hosted a virtual panel discussion to address the recent surge in anti-Asian harassment and violence…

April 20, 2021

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Lorraine Hansberry Biography by Soyica Colbert Listed as a Must-Read in Oprah Magazine

Soyica Diggs Colbert, interim dean of the College and Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts, recently completed her latest book Radical Vision: A…

April 19, 2021

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Goldwater Recipient to Use Scholarship to Continue Cancer Research

Biology major Jordan Kramer (C’22) has been awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, which she will use to continue her work in cancer cell.…

April 15, 2021

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Creating Cicada Curiosity: Biology Professor Launches Children’s Resource on Upcoming 17-Year Emergence

In May of this year, the United States’ east coast will experience a recurring phenomenon that takes place nowhere else in the world: the emergence of the 17 year cicada.…

April 12, 2021

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Making Georgetown Communication More Accessible, Inclusive for All

As Georgetown shifted to an online learning environment last spring, there was an increase in virtual communication through websites, email and social media. Libbie Rifkin,…

April 8, 2021

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Georgetown to Launch Bachelor’s Degree Program at Maryland Prison

The Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) will introduce a full bachelor’s degree program for 25 aspiring students incarcerated at Patuxent Institution in Jessup,, …

April 7, 2021

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Georgetown Senior Publishes Book on Intersection of Business, Law and Minority Politics

Before graduating this spring, Irene Chun (C’21) will publish her first book Coloring Ivory that discusses minority politics, business and the law. Chun, who is an…

March 30, 2021