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Performing Arts Department Adapts to Online Learning, Provides Space for Students to Heal and Grow

The Department of Performing Arts had planned for several events in the Spring 2020 semester, including a concert series, the continuation of the In Your Shoes Project and the…

August 31, 2020

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COVID-19 Has Harmful Effects on Children in Low-Income Families, Researchers Find

Since the pandemic hit, nearly 50% of responding parents in a new study of low-income families said they had lost their jobs or had decreased work hours and experienced food…

August 31, 2020

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First-Year Student Presented Paper at Prestigious Computational Linguistics Conference

Even before receiving an offer of admission to Georgetown, incoming first-year student Aryaman Arora (C’24) was making waves as a budding computational. …

August 27, 2020

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Georgetown Humanities Initiative Promotes Collaboration and Community

The Georgetown Humanities Initiative was conceived by the College as a way to foster collaborative projects across departments and schools that highlight the human element of…

August 24, 2020

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Library Acquires Rare Logbook That Illustrates Life Aboard a Slave Ship

A recent gift to Georgetown University Library, now digitized and made available online, provides poignant and valuable insight into the Atlantic slave trade. “As historians,…

August 20, 2020

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Hidden Movements of Small Songbird Have Important Climate Change Implications

State-of-the-art tracking technology reveals previously unknown long-distance movements of Kirtland’s warblers during mating season that have important conservation and climate…

August 20, 2020

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Professor Writes Play About Wells-Barnett, Addams as Critique of White Feminism

Bitter Flower, a play by Jennifer Natalya Fink, professor in the Department of English at Georgetown and Director of the Program in Disability Studies, will debut as an online…

August 19, 2020

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Georgetown Professor Heads Study that Discovers a New Key to Unlocking Winding Spins

An international team led by Kai Liu, professor and McDevitt Chair in the Department of Physics, has now discovered a new key that unlocks winding spins, which can be used to…

August 14, 2020

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Professor Robert Patterson Discusses H.R.40 Bill, Offers Suggestions for Reparations

One of the policies Congress put forth to improve the lives of Black Americans is the H.R.40 bill, also known as the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for…

August 10, 2020

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Fighting for Justice: Three College Alumni Create Positive Community Change

Three social justice activists who began engaging in community advocacy during their time at Georgetown have continued to fight for others throughout their impressive.…

July 30, 2020