Archive: Faculty

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Facing Heartache on Valentine’s Day? Read a Poem

Elizabeth Velez (G’83) and her friend, alumna Mary Esselman (C’84, G’87), wrote The Hell With Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart (Warner Books, 2002) after Esselman…

February 14, 2020

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Professor to Research Spatial Information in Germany With Prestigious Humboldt Award

Philosophy professor Quill Kukla, a senior research scholar at the university’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE), is one of only 100 applicants around the world to receive the…

February 11, 2020

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Chemistry, History, Psychology: College Professors from Varied Disciplines Recognized as Provost’s Distinguished Professors

Since 2016, a small group of faculty are selected each year to receive the honor of the Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professors. These educators have made a huge impact in…

February 7, 2020

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Department Highlight – Mathematics & Statistics Professor Kimberly Sellers Creates Varied Research Opportunities for Students

If the movie Hidden Figures taught us anything, it is that there are often forces in the background working to make anything possible. Though the study of math and statistics is…

January 27, 2020

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Wu Receives Prestigious Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Association of America

Department of English professor Duncan Wu was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Association of America at the Modern Language Association convention in…

January 17, 2020

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Three College Professors Honored at Faculty Convocation & Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards

Nathan Hensley (Department of English), Catherine Keesling (Department of Classics), and Manus Patten (Department of Biology) will receive the prestigious Dean’s Excellence in…

January 13, 2020

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Golden Arches: New Book Explores McDonald’s, Civil Rights and Politics

Department of History professor Marcia Chatelain, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor and author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration (2015),…

January 10, 2020

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Book by Georgetown Professor Andrew Sobanet Spotlighted in Prestigious H-France Forum

French and Francophone Studies professor Andrew Sobanet was featured in the most recent edition of H-France Forum, an online digital platform that promotes scholarly work and…

January 6, 2020

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Lydia X.Z.Brown (C’15) Returns to Teach in Disability Studies for 2020

Brown, an internationally significant disability justice activist, currently co-leads a project on algorithmic fairness and disability rights at the Institute for Technology& …

December 17, 2019

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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