Archive: News Story
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Georgetown Student Works to End Stigma Against Disabilities in Kazakhstan
This past summer, Madeleine Gibbons-Shapiro (C’21) conducted a social impact assessment of a café that employs intellectually disabled individuals in Kazakhstan. Because of her…
January 13, 2020
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Golden Arches: New Book Explores McDonald’s, Civil Rights and Politics
Department of History professor Marcia Chatelain, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor and author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration (2015), published…
January 10, 2020
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Book by Georgetown Professor Andrew Sobanet Spotlighted in Prestigious H-France Forum
French and Francophone Studies professor Andrew Sobanet was featured in the most recent edition of H-France Forum, an online digital platform that promotes scholarly work and…
January 6, 2020
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Lydia X.Z.Brown (C’15) Returns to Teach in Disability Studies for 2020
Brown, an internationally significant disability justice activist, currently co-leads a project on algorithmic fairness and disability rights at the Institute for Technology& …
December 17, 2019
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Disability Studies Learning in Practice Fellowships Awarded
With the support from the Provost’s Innovation in Teaching award, the Disability Studies program has granted three Learning In Practice Fellowships to Madeleine Gibbons-Shapiro …
December 17, 2019
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Ning Bao (C’20) Wins Scholarship to Study Global Affairs in Beijing
Bao, a political economy major from Zhejiang Province in China, wants to build bridges between China and the Middle.…
December 12, 2019
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Dream Machine: Marshall Scholar Hopes to Use AI to Combat Climate Change
Sally Matson (C’20), a Georgetown senior who wants to use machine learning to combat climate change, is one of two Georgetown students named a 2020 Marshall Scholarship.…
December 9, 2019
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Georgetown Student Starts First-of-Its Kind Political Comedy Show
Alexandra Bowman (C’22), a passionate viewer of political late-night TV shows and the television offerings of Monty Python, decided to start her own political satire web.…
December 9, 2019
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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