Archive: Awards

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Two Georgetown Professors Receive Prestigious Whiting Award for Fiction, Nonfiction

The Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing Tope Folarin and the Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Planetary Science Sarah Stewart Johnson were selected for…

April 21, 2021

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Goldwater Recipient to Use Scholarship to Continue Cancer Research

Biology major Jordan Kramer (C’22) has been awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, which she will use to continue her work in cancer cell.…

April 15, 2021

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Yu Huang, Martínez Sánchez Selected for 2021 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.…

March 12, 2021

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Three College Professors Receive Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards, Honored for Dedication to Educating Students

Patrick Johnson (Department of Physics), Chandra Manning (Department of History) and Libbie Rifkin (Department of English) will receive the prestigious Dean’s Excellence in…

January 28, 2021

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Linguistics Professor Wins Award for Social Justice for Her Work to Make Spanish Courses More Inclusive

Cristina Sanz, professor of linguistics in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, was awarded the AAUSC Innovation in Language Program Direction Award for Inclusion and Social…

January 25, 2021

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Georgetown Senior Wins Marshall Scholarship, Explores Black Women and Religious Movements

Georgetown senior Amber Stanford (C’21), who researches how historical traumas have impacted Black women’s involvement in religious movements over the last century, is among…

December 7, 2020

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Chemistry Professor Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Global Scholarship for Research on Reduction of Greenhouse Gases

YuYe J. Tong, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and director of the Environmental Metrology & Policy Program, was awarded a competitive Fulbright Global Scholar Award…

October 20, 2020

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Biology Ph.D. Student Recipient of 2020 GBIF Young Researchers Award

Vaughn Shirey, a PhD student in the Department of Biology, is one of two winners of the 2020 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Young Researchers Awards. An expert…

October 13, 2020

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Social Impact Nonprofit Honors Disability Justice Advocate Lydia Brown (C’15) with 2020 Beacon Award

Los Angeles-based Social Impact Nonprofit Let’s Talk LD awarded Lydia Brown, faculty in the Disability Studies Program, this year’s Beacon Award for their work as an, …

October 8, 2020

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Emanuela Del Gado Elected as 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society

Emanuela Del Gado, a Provost’s distinguished associate professor in the Department of Physics has been elected as a 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society. Less than one…

September 28, 2020