Archive: Faculty
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Are Spotted Lanternflies That Bad For Your Yard? Here’s How They Affect Your Plants and Environment.
Lanternflies could swarm your backyard and neighborhood this summer. But are they that harmful for you and your local environment? An entomologist and biology professor weighs.…
July 16, 2026
- Faculty in the Media
What ‘Familect’ Do You Speak? Linguists Explain the Weird Words and Phrases Used Within Families
Georgetown University linguist Cynthia Gordon spent over two decades recording how families really talk at.…
July 13, 2026
- Faculty in the Media
How American Socialism Changed, and Stormed the Democratic Party
“This is the first time that a mass socialist organization has had members where almost all of them decide to run as Democrats, instead of running on their own party line,” said…
July 10, 2026
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Adapting ‘The Odyssey’ Is a Challenge of Mythic Scale. Why Do We Keep Returning to This Ancient Epic?
“The Odyssey” is a highly anticipated summer blockbuster. The narrative is hard to capture on the silver screen, one classicist.…
July 9, 2026
- Faculty in the Media
Trump Always Does This 1 Extremely Boomer Thing In His Truth Social Posts
“My guess would be [it’s] to remind people he’s the president and to have the pleasure of seeing ‘President Donald Trump,’” said Deborah Tannen, a distinguished linguistics…
July 9, 2026
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New DARPA Grant to Study Ultra-Low-Power Magnetic Memory
A team led by Professor Kai Liu has been awarded a research grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to study a novel class of data storage.…
July 8, 2026
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Books, Songs, Movies and Podcasts to Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary
On the semiquincentennial, we reached out to professors across Georgetown to learn more about America’s early roots and its complex history.…
July 1, 2026
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America’s 250th: The Best U.S. History Books, According to College Faculty
Professors in history, government, English, performing arts, psychology and other fields offer their recommendations on books to read…
June 30, 2026
- Faculty in the Media
Juneteenth Gathering at Sacred Heart in Bowie Honors Legacy of Enslaved Ancestors
Adam Rothman, a professor in the Department of History at Georgetown University and the director of Georgetown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and its Legacies, said serving on…
June 27, 2026
- Faculty in the Media
Screens Are Virtually Inescapable. What Are They Doing to Our Health?
Horizons from PBS News moderator William Brangham explores what we know and don’t know with researchers Georgetown's Kostadin Kushlev and Northwestern's Courtney K..…
June 26, 2026