Archive: Faculty Research

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Georgetown Professor Discovers Key Findings to Stop Malarial Drug Resistance

The malarial disease infects millions of people every year. Until recently, drugs like chloroquine (CQ) and piperaquine (PPQ) have been effective against the parasite that causes…

December 4, 2019

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Justinianic Plague Not a Landmark Pandemic?

Until recently, the Justinianic Plague was thought to have killed up to half of the population of the Mediterranean between 541 and 750 CE. Departments of Biology and History…

December 2, 2019

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Study Finds Children’s Math Learning Improves by Interacting with Intelligent Characters

In an effort to improve education in STEM fields, Georgetown Department of Psychology Professor Sandra Calvert and her colleagues conducted research, published in Child…

November 20, 2019

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Psychology Research Team Identifies Creative Anxiety

A new study by a research team at Georgetown provides the first evidence of a form of anxiety that is specific to thinking creatively and points to ways that this kind of anxiety…

June 11, 2019

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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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Hsu Tackles Question of Happiness in China

Professor Becky Hsu led a multi-institutional research project into happiness in China, which inspired her own book, Happiness in China: Family, Fate, and the Good Death,…

January 29, 2019

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Zeldes' Team Awarded NEH Grant for Coptic Linguistics Project

Professor Amir Zeldes of the Department of Linguistics has received a grant of more than $320,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand the study of Coptic…

November 19, 2018

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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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Freericks Awarded Two DOE Grants

The grants are both part of the Department of Energy’s recent $218 million initiative to promote quantum information science, which Secretary of Energy Rick Perry called &…

October 26, 2018