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Freericks Elected AAAS Fellow

Professor James Freericks of the Department of Physics has been named a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is one of only 19 physics professors…

November 28, 2018

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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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Music Policy Forum Summit Promotes Dialogue Across Industry

Last weekend, Georgetown hosted the annual Music Policy Forum Summit, which brings together musicians, policymakers and industry stakeholders in a two-day event filled with…

October 31, 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

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Hirsh Wins CCMA Engaged Scholarship Career Award

The award recognizes and honors a scholar for “outstanding research in curricular and/or co-curricular service learning which advances the field.&;…

October 10, 2018

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Government Professors Win Grants, APSA Awards

The Georgetown College Department of Government has had an active early fall, with a number of faculty members winning grants to fund their research and recognition on notable…

October 9, 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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De Luna NEH Grant Unites Humanities, Archaeology

Professor Kathryn de Luna of the Department of History has received a collaborative research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which she and two co…

September 14, 2018

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Freericks Named Theory Lead on DOE X-Ray Team

Professor James Freericks of the Georgetown College Department of Physics is part of a team that won a highly competitive research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy last…

September 10, 2018