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BMW Center Hosts "Decolonizing the Museum" Panel

The conference was founded in light of ongoing discussions of race, identity and colonization in cultural institutions inspired by the opening of the National Museum of African…

November 30, 2018

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Freericks Elected AAAS Fellow

Professor James Freericks of the Department of Physics has been named a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is one of only 19 physics professors…

November 28, 2018

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Meet Rangel Fellowship Winner Bianca Uribe

Bianca Uribe (C'18) has received a 2018 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship, a prestigious award given to only 30 students from universities across the country. We…

November 21, 2018

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Zeldes' Team Awarded NEH Grant for Coptic Linguistics Project

Professor Amir Zeldes of the Department of Linguistics has received a grant of more than $320,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand the study of Coptic…

November 19, 2018

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At Sophomore Success Dinner, Alumni Provide Valuable Advice

The Georgetown College Office of the Dean hosted the final Sophomore Success Dinner of the year on November 1. The dinner brought four College alumni to campus to speak with…

November 12, 2018

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Johnson Leads Major Grant to Redefine Extraterrestrial Life Detection

NASA’s Astrobiology Program has awarded a nearly $7 million grant to an effort led by Georgetown Assistant Professor Sarah Stewart Johnson that is explicitly aimed at…

November 2, 2018

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Music Policy Forum Summit Promotes Dialogue Across Industry

Last weekend, Georgetown hosted the annual Music Policy Forum Summit, which brings together musicians, policymakers and industry stakeholders in a two-day event filled with…

October 31, 2018

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Actor, Publisher Tucker Kapp (C'10) Returns for 10-Day Artistic Residency

Kapp is guest lecturing three meetings of a contemporary French theater class during his 10-day residency. Tuesday, he’ll cap off his stay with the debut showing of S&…

October 30, 2018

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Freericks Awarded Two DOE Grants

The grants are both part of the Department of Energy’s recent $218 million initiative to promote quantum information science, which Secretary of Energy Rick Perry called &…

October 26, 2018

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Woodward Visits Journalism Class

October 18, 2018 — Bob Woodward, famed Washington Post reporter and author of 13 best-selling books, came to Georgetown University last week to speak to the students of…

October 19, 2018