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Renowned Choreographer Begins Groundbreaking Residency in Disability Studies

In January 2022, the Program in Disability Studies will welcome renowned choreographer Jerron Herman as its Artist/Scholar/Activist-in.…

December 16, 2021

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Hillary Clinton Honors International Women’s Rights Leaders at Georgetown

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton honored five women trailblazers who have advanced women’s rights at great personal risk during an awards ceremony on Dec. 6…

December 9, 2021

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Linguistics Team Wins Competition, Professor Receives Accolades

A team of Ph.D. students representing the Department of Linguistics Corpling Lab won top marks in all five categories of DISRPT 2021, a recurring computational linguistics…

December 7, 2021

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JUPS Students Contribute to Global Research Initiative on Mapping Peace Education

“Mapping Peace Education,” an online tool and publication analyzing global peace education efforts, is a new research initiative of the Global Campaign for Peace Education…

December 6, 2021

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Runner and Researcher: December Graduate Katie Dammer (C’21) Tackles Cross Country Competitions and Covid-19 Research

Katie Dammer (C’21) is one of 82 students who is graduating this December. A Biology of Global Health major with a Science, Technology, and International Affairs (STIA) minor,…

November 30, 2021

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Postdoctoral Fellow Maëva Millan and Professor Sarah Stewart Johnson Conduct First-of-Its-Kind Research Searching for Organic Molecules on Red Planet

In a paper published in Nature Astronomy, Georgetown Postdoctoral Fellow Maëva Millan and her advisor, Sarah Stewart Johnson, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the…

November 16, 2021

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Bringing Disability Ethics into Mainstream Curriculum

With the support of a $100,000 current-use gift from Matt (C’02, L’09) and Jenae (L’09) Ruesch, the Ethics Lab is creating a new three-week disabilities studies module to…

November 10, 2021

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Study by Psychology Professors Johnson and Phillips Shows Successes, Struggles of Students During Distance Learning

Professors in the Department of Psychology Anna Johnson, Ph.D., and Deborah Phillips, Ph.D., partnered with researchers at the University of Oklahoma on the Tulsa SEED Study,…

November 5, 2021

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Which Witch: Two Professors Use Historical Research to Teach Class on Different Forms of Witchcraft from Around the World

Alison Games, Ph.D. and Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History, and Amy Leonard, Ph.D., professor of History and director of undergraduate studies, co-instruct the…

October 29, 2021

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Three College Undergraduate Students Developing Career Skills Through Beeck Center Student Analyst Program

Ethan Fan (C’24), Katie Hawkinson (C’23) and Zega Ras-Work (C’23) were three of the four College undergraduates selected as this year’s student analysts for the Beeck…

October 28, 2021