Archive: Biology
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Huang Receives Award to Research MS Treatment
Professor Jeffrey Huang of the Georgetown College Department of Biology has received a major award from the National MS Society to continue research on a potentially…
April 9, 2019
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Biology Professors Coauthor Study on Monarch Migration
A major paper on monarch butterfly migration coauthored by Professors Leslie Ries and Naresh Neupane of the Department of Biology was published this week in.…
March 25, 2019
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Donoghue Velleca Accepts Deanship at Lehigh University
Professor Maria Donoghue Velleca, a fixture in the Department of Biology and the Georgetown College Dean’s Office for more than a decade, has been named the Herbert J. and Ann.…
February 21, 2019
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Johnson Leads Major Grant to Redefine Extraterrestrial Life Detection
NASA’s Astrobiology Program has awarded a nearly $7 million grant to an effort led by Georgetown Assistant Professor Sarah Stewart Johnson that is explicitly aimed at…
November 2, 2018
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Summer Roundup: Biology Professors Land More Than $10 Million in Grants
10 professors in the department have received research grants totaling more than $10 million from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and private…
October 5, 2018
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Four Graduate Students Win NSF Fellowships
Rob Cortes (C’18) and Shawn Rhoads of the Department of Psychology have been awarded prestigious graduate fellowships from the National Science.…
May 4, 2018
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Georgetown Booth Earns Rave Reviews at Science Festival
Professor Heidi Elmendorf of the Department of Biology brought a group of Georgetown scientists and students to man a booth at the USA Science and Engineering Festival earlier…
April 18, 2018
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Q & A: Women in Research
We caught up this week with Janet Mann of the Department of Biology and Garance Genicot of the Department of Economics to discuss their latest projects, the state of women in…
April 2, 2018
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Ries Receives Three Grants for Ecological Research
Professor Leslie Ries of the Georgetown College Department of Biology has been awarded three grants to study the impact of climate change and natural disasters on springtime…
March 8, 2018
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Women in STEM Fields Honored at Faculty Convocation
Georgetown College Dean Christopher Celenza presented the Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching to three accomplished professors in the natural sciences at the 2018…
January 26, 2018