Archive: Environmental Initiative

• Hidden Movements of Small Songbird Have Important Climate Change Implications

  August 20, 2020

  State-of-the-art tracking technology reveals previously unknown long-distance movements of Kirtland’s warblers during mating season that have important conservation and climate change implications for North American birds, according to a new study co-authored by a Georgetown professor.

  Category: News Story Tags: Biology, Environmental Initiative, Faculty, Research

• Scientists Mark First Evidence That Dolphins Give Birth in Potomac River

  September 30, 2019

  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 expert Janet Mann.

  Category: News Story Tags: Alumni, Biology, Environmental Initiative, Research, Science, STEM

• Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined opens at Georgetown University Art Galleries

  September 20, 2019

  Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined is the first exhibition to recognize a fresh approach to addressing the current state of our depleted and polluted environment; an extreme and inventive kind of upcycling.

  Category: News Story Tags: Art & Art History, Environmental Initiative, Galleries, Humanities Initiative, Performing Arts, Sustainability