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Georgetown Professor Discovers Key Findings to Stop Malarial Drug Resistance

The malarial disease infects millions of people every year. Until recently, drugs like chloroquine (CQ) and piperaquine (PPQ) have been effective against the parasite that causes…

December 4, 2019

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Justinianic Plague Not a Landmark Pandemic?

Until recently, the Justinianic Plague was thought to have killed up to half of the population of the Mediterranean between 541 and 750 CE. Departments of Biology and History…

December 2, 2019

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Student Gains Valuable Experience Working in France, Contributes to Better Community

Alero Oyinlola (C’22) ­­has been passionate about economic development since before college. With the help of the Davis Fellowship Program, she was able to work with an…

December 2, 2019

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Physics Professor Awarded Prestigious AAAS Fellowship for Work on Nanomagnetism

Kai Liu, Georgetown professor and McDevitt Chair in the Department of Physics, has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ). …

November 26, 2019

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Georgetown English Professor Finalist for 2019 National Book Award

Department of English professor and renowned poet Carolyn Forché was a National Book Award finalist for a memoir detailing her experiences in El Salvador between 1978 and 1980,…

November 21, 2019

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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