Royden B. Davis Fellowship Empowers Students to Explore New Horizons
November 14th, 2022
Every summer, the Royden B. Davis Fellowship empowers undergraduate students in the Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences to explore new horizons.…
The purpose of our university is not the acquisition of knowledge, but the search for deeper knowing. Rather than imagine your education as downloading information or facts, reimagine your education as a process of seeking, questioning, probing, arguing, and creating. The primary responsibilities of faculty are to research, teach, and guide students. The primary responsibilities of students are to learn how to learn and to continue this quest for the rest of their lives. Faculty are primarily involved in the search for and creation of new knowledge, but faculty invite students to join with them to learn methods and approaches. After engaging in research with faculty supervision, students may dream up their own questions and create their own projects. In these ways, students chart their own paths toward original questions and deeper knowing. To find out ways that you can participate in undergraduate research, please refer to the following chart.
Students explore research methods through an introductory course to a field of knowledge (for example, ENGL-090, FMST-100, JUPS-202, PSYC-002, or SOCI-201)
Students join with faculty in a research project, serving as research assistants via GUROP.
Students bring back their summer research and develop this material into a thesis, capstone, or independent project in the senior year. Students present their research via on-campus symposia (including the College Academic Council Research Colloquium in the spring) and off-campus conferences (supported by PURPAS grants).
Students use their undergraduate research projects as stepping stones to further research, creative projects, fellowships, jobs, graduate study, public service, etc.
Continue to ask questions and pursue deeper knowing as key activities in lives of purpose.
Royden B. Davis Fellowship Empowers Students to Explore New Horizons
November 14th, 2022
Every summer, the Royden B. Davis Fellowship empowers undergraduate students in the Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences to explore new horizons.…
Georgetown College Students Shine at Global Social Research Symposium
October 3rd, 2022
Four students from the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences presented at this year’s Global Social Research Symposium. …
Summer Stories: Georgetown Team Shores Up Conservation Center in Coastal Kenya
August 30th, 2022
This summer, a group of Georgetown undergraduates and professors traveled to the Diani Beach region of Kenya to bring their coursework to life by building out educational assets at the Colobus Conservation Center. …
College Senior Solveig Baylor (C’22) Awarded Second Place for Interdisciplinary Research at Big East Research Symposium
March 29th, 2022
Solveig Baylor (C’22) won second place at the inaugural Big East Research Symposium, an event designed to highlight the value of undergraduate research, for her project titled, “Women’s Autonomy and Inheritance Law in India.” …
Georgetown Named Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Student Awardees
March 3rd, 2022
Georgetown University is the second highest producer of U.S. Fulbright Student Program awardees for 2021-2022, the U.S. Department of State announced on February 28.…