Archive: Awards
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Memoir by English Professor Carolyn Forché Shortlisted for Second Prestigious Award
Department of English professor and renowned poet Carolyn Forché was shortlisted for the esteemed James Tait Black Prize for What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Random House, 2019), that details her experiences in El Salvador between 1978 and 1980. This book, which was also listed as a finalist for the 2019 National Book Awards for Nonfiction, describes how a meeting with a stranger during Forché’s time in South America kicked off her long career as a human rights activist.
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Meet the 2020 Tropaia Award Winners
Georgetown College gathered virtually to celebrate the Class of 2020 and honor 41 exceptional seniors at the 101st annual Tropaia ceremony. The Cohonguroton address was presented by Jennifer Miller (
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Oladunni, Stanford Selected for 2020 Chester Gillis Award
Each year, the College Academic Council (CAC) recognizes two students who embody the values of a liberal arts education in the Jesuit tradition through the Chester Gillis Award. This year, the honor
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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 continue advocating for increased and diverse safeguards in technology to help protect vulnerable communities online.
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Senior Dedicated to Serving Campus and Local Community Receives Recognition
Emma Berk (C’20) has focused on being a person for others since her first year at Georgetown. Her work with four different service projects led her to receive the university’s prestigious Landegger Award, an honor given to students who have made outstanding contributions to community service. She hopes one day to become a psychologist in a correctional facility.
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Chemistry, History, Psychology: College Professors from Varied Disciplines Recognized as Provost’s Distinguished Professors
Since 2016, a small group of faculty are selected each year to receive the honor of the Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professors. These educators have made a huge impact in their field of research while at the university, and have shared their passions with their students, the Georgetown community and beyond. This year, Department of History professor Kathryn de Luna, Department of Psychology professor Adam Green and Department of Chemistry professor Kaveh Jorabchi were three of the four faculty chosen.
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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 (G’54), the renowned Georgetown
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Wu Receives Prestigious Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Association of America
Department of English professor Duncan Wu was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Association of America at the Modern Language Association convention in Seattle. Raymond Wagner Professor in Literary Studies, Wu was selected for this honor in recognition for his career-long excellence in scholarship devoted to writers of the Romantic period (1780-1830). Only two individuals receive the award each year.
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Three College Professors Honored at Faculty Convocation & Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards
Nathan Hensley (Department of English), Catherine Keesling (Department of Classics), and Manus Patten (Department of Biology) will receive the prestigious Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award at Faculty Convocation. This award is given to those faculty members who have demonstrated that they are exceptional educators deeply committed to enriching the undergraduate experience.
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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 recipient.
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