Faculty Research

The College of Arts & Sciences is home to some of the world’s foremost academics producing research that not only shapes their fields but impacts the wider world.

In the classroom, our faculty provide engaging lectures and discussions, while outside they produce research that informs the spheres of policy, science and the arts. Read more about some of the most recent research produced by our world-class faculty.

Faculty Research Stories

Julia-Watts-Belser

“Georgetown has given me the opportunity to bring ethical questions into the very center of my scholarship. It’s also made me feel that my scholarly work, my teaching, my work in the community is a lot more integrated.”

Professor Julia Watts Belser’s Story
Dr. Jeffrey Huang

“Based on our success in animal trials, we believe our drug will help stabilize patients with the disease [multiple sclerosis], reducing not only the number of relapses, but their severity as well.”

Professor Jeffrey Huang’s Story

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News Story

New DARPA Grant to Study Ultra-Low-Power Magnetic Memory

A team led by Professor Kai Liu has been awarded a research grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to study a novel class of data storage technology.

July 8, 2026

Faculty in the Media

Summer Challenge: Put Your Phone Away for Better Sleep

Place your phone out of arm’s reach, so you’d have to leave your bed to get it, said Kostadin Kushlev, an associate professor of psychology at Georgetown who runs the Happy Tech Lab.

June 11, 2026

News Story

Medical Humanities Director Lakshmi Krishnan Named a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Krishnan will spend the upcoming academic year completing her book, The Doctor and the Detective, about how modern medical diagnosis was forged as much through the literary imagination — particularly detective fiction — as through science.

June 1, 2026