Archive: Alumni

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Fighting for Justice: Three College Alumni Create Positive Community Change

Three social justice activists who began engaging in community advocacy during their time at Georgetown have continued to fight for others throughout their impressive.…

July 30, 2020

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Young Alumnus Continues Fight for LGBTQ, Civil Rights During Pandemic

LGBTQ youth advocate Trevor O’Connor (C’20) believes fighting for civil rights in the time of COVID-19 is more important than ever, no matter how it is done. “A great…

June 26, 2020

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College Alumnus Hopes to Amplify Stories of Black Life in New Role at Theater

Creating space and amplifying voices of Black experience is a paramount element of Reginald Douglas’ (C’09) mission as Studio Theatre’s newly named associate artistic…

June 10, 2020

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Puppet Shows and Presentations: Performing Arts Students Rise to the Zoom Challenge

When Georgetown transitioned to online learning in response to COVID-19, students in some Department of Performing Arts and other courses faced unusual obstacles completing their…

May 20, 2020

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Georgetown Band Releases First Indie-Rock Album

The band Back to Yours –  comprising one Georgetown student and four recent graduates – is known in the Georgetown community and elsewhere, having sold out numerous…

May 19, 2020

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‘Chef Geoff’ Provides Recipes for a Great Mother’s Day Brunch

Geoff Tracy (C’95), a.k.a “Chef Geoff” provides two tried-and-true recipes for a Mother's Day brunch in. …

May 8, 2020

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Faculty Member and Alumnus Receive 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction and Poetry

Charles King, professor and chair of the Department of Government, was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for his latest book Gods of the Upper Air. This award,…

March 30, 2020

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Georgetown Alumna, Google Social Advocate Awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Anita Williams (C’17), who now works for Google, will use her recently awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a degree at the University of Cambridge that will help her…

March 10, 2020

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Observatory Named for Georgetown Physicist Who Encourages Next Generation of Women in Science

Sarah Jiang (C’21) says she’s thrilled that the National Science Foundation chose to name a telescope designed to conduct “a vast astronomical survey” after Vera Rubin …

January 31, 2020

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Scientists Mark First Evidence That Dolphins Give Birth in Potomac River

The first evidence that the Potomac River is a breeding area for wild bottlenose dolphins has been gathered by graduate students working with Georgetown biologist and dolphin…

September 30, 2019