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Georgetown Center To Use $1 Million Dollar Grant To Expand Its Multidisciplinary Cyber Research

The Cyber SMART Research Center was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as an Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC), awarding the center a $1…

July 15, 2021

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Georgetown Alumna Selected to Host Washington Week

Award-winning journalist Yamiche Alcindor (C’09) was recently chosen as the next moderator of the weekly news analysis series Washington Week on PBS. This selection is the…

July 15, 2021

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Mike Amezcua Named 2021 Emerging Faculty Leader After First Year on Campus

Mike Amezcua, assistant professor in the Department of History, was one of 10 junior faculty members named as a 2021 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader (MEFL) by the Institute of…

July 13, 2021

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Professor, Graduate Students Named Finalists for BARDA-NIOSH Mask Innovation Challenge

Department of Physics professor Kai Liu and PhD students James Malloy (G’22) and Christopher Jensen (G’25) were named one of the 10 Phase 1 Winners, and the only university…

July 8, 2021

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Junior Helps to Implement Innovative Programming by New LGBTQ Resource Center Assistant Director

Ben Telerski (C'23) started working at the LGBTQ Resource Center during his first week at Georgetown. Throughout a global pandemic, the junior contributed to the creation of…

June 28, 2021

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Georgetown Joins New Global Partnership to Advance Equitable and Inclusive Technology

Building on Georgetown’s work at the intersection of technology, ethics, public policy, and governance, the University will serve as a founding academic partner in the new…

June 28, 2021

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Making an Exoneree: Keith Washington Released After 13 Years in Prison

Keith Washington left a Maryland prison on June 23 and reunited with his wife and daughters after more than 13 years apart. His release comes about a month after a judge agreed…

June 23, 2021

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Royden B. Davis Fellow Justin Goldstein Conducting Research to Optimize Question Answering Results

Computer science major Justin Goldstein (C’24) was selected as one of this year’s Royden B. Davis Fellows. The sophomore will use this fellowship to fund his summer research…

June 21, 2021

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Prison Scholar Joel Caston Elected to Local Government

Georgetown Prison Scholar Joel Caston is a longtime mentor, instructor, and leader at the D.C. Jail. Now, he’ll also represent the jail’s residents and neighbors as their…

June 21, 2021

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New Study by Georgetown Scientists Shows Dolphin Personality Stable for Decades

While a few studies show that human personality traits last a long time, until now, the same has not been shown for wild animals. In a first-of-its-kind study published in…

June 18, 2021