Archive: News Story
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Study Finds Children’s Math Learning Improves by Interacting with Intelligent Characters
In an effort to improve education in STEM fields, Georgetown Department of Psychology Professor Sandra Calvert and her colleagues conducted research, published in Child…
November 20, 2019
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Student Designs Better Way to Study Zebrafish
Alexander Brown (C’20) created a new product to help him research the brains of zebra fish. Due to the success of its design, further research on the neurobiology of zebra fish…
November 18, 2019
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Animals in Heaven? Jesuit Professor’s New Book Claims Catholic Theology Says Yes
Professor Christopher Steck of the Department of Theology published his book All God’s Animals: A Catholic Theological Framework for Animal Ethics, the first of its kind to…
November 12, 2019
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Senior Spends Summer Building Program that Will Help Analyze 22 of the World’s Technology Giants
Prior to this summer, Gaby Walton (C’20) was eager to apply the coding skills she had learned beyond the classroom. In August, she developed a program that assists in the…
November 11, 2019
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Georgetown Professor Launches Remembering YoU, a Community Archiving Initiative to Preserve Historic U-Street Neighborhood
Department of History Professor Ananya Chakravarti is working to preserve the rich history of one of Washington’s most culturally vibrant neighborhoods. She and Georgetown…
November 6, 2019
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Three College Professors Honored With Prestigious Research and Teaching Awards
Alison Mackey, Department of Linguistics, John McNeill, Department of History, and Cristina Sanz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese joined Italo Mocchetti, Georgetown…
November 5, 2019
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Georgetown Student Worked to End Poverty in Mabule, Botswana
Mayesha Awal (C’20) traveled to Botswana as part of the Davis Fellows Program during the summer of 2019. Now that she is back, Awal is more motivated than ever to continue…
November 5, 2019
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Martin Moreno (C’22) Meets Society of Jesus Leader During Internship in Rome
Martin Moreno (C’22) had a unique opportunity to intern this summer at the Jesuit Curia in Rome, where he met the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Arturo Sosa, S.…
November 1, 2019
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Deconstructing Walls —German Department Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Department of German Professors Astrid Weigert and Anja Banchoff are hosting a week-long event series to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that will…
November 1, 2019
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Esteemed Poet and Translator Gives Talk on New Book
Dick Davis, globally acknowledged leading translator of Persian poetry, gave a reading from his newly published book The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by…
October 31, 2019