Archive: Awards
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Georgetown College Celebrates 2022 Tropaia Award Winners
Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences gathered to honor exceptional seniors and outstanding faculty members at today’s annual Tropaia ceremony in Gaston Hall.
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Innovative Faculty Members Honored with Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award
Julia Watts Belser, Yulia Chentsova Dutton and Janeth Presores were honored with the 2021 Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching. Since 1996, the awards have honored faculty members who have enriched the undergraduate experience through exceptional instruction.
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Renowned Georgetown Ethicist Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Nancy Sherman, a Distinguished University Professor, is one of 261 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Three College Students Named Goldwater Scholars
Established by Congress in 1986, the prestigious national award is conferred to sophomores and juniors who excel in the fields of mathematics, engineering and the natural sciences. The awards support the undergraduate students who will become the next generation’s research leaders. This year’s applicant pool of more than 5,000 qualified students resulted in just 417 recipients.
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College Academic Council Recognizes Scholastic Tenacity and Independent Thought
The College Academic Council celebrated distinguished faculty and promising students at its 16th annual awards ceremony. This year’s event honored Erin Cline, a professor of Chinese philosophy whose work in the classroom has transformed her students’ lives.
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Carolyn Forché Elected Chancellor of Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets has elected Carolyn Forché, Ph.D., the newest member of its Board of Chancellors.
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Georgetown Named Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Student Awardees
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.
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Georgetown Professor Wins Prestigious Prize for the Study of Classical Arabic Poetry
A Georgetown professor is making international waves for her dedicated study of Classical Arabic poetry. Suzanne Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, is a 2022 King Faisal Prize laureate.
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Linguistics Team Wins Competition, Professor Receives Accolades
A team of Ph.D. students representing the Department of Linguistics Corpling Lab won top marks in all five categories of DISRPT 2021, a recurring computational linguistics competition. The competition invites teams from around the world to build out and improve computational models that decode human discourse, which includes identifying meaningful portions of the text, detecting cue words and identifying the relationships between segments.
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Kimberly Sellers Named ASA Fellow for Research, Collaboration and Leadership in Justice and Equity
Kimberly Sellers, Ph.D. and professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was elected as a Fellow in the American Statistical Association (ASA) for her excellence in dispersed count data methodology, impactful collaborations with the US Census Bureau and exemplary leadership increasing justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in statistics and broader mathematical science communities.
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