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Having High Levels of Empathy Is Good for You. But Is There a Flip Side?

A new paper from psychologist Casey Brown explores the extent to which empathy can help – and harm – elderly couples as they…

February 8, 2023

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History Hasn’t Changed as Much as You Think, According to Fathali Moghaddam

In Fathali Moghaddam’s new book, Political Plasticity, he argues that political systems change far less than we might…

February 3, 2023

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Benjamin Harbert Establishes Multimedia Journal for Ethnomusicology

Co-founded by Benjamin Harbert, the Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology is a peer-reviewed streaming journal, which combines the rich medium of film with the rigor of academic…

January 31, 2023

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Kai Liu Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has elected Kai Liu, a physicist and materials scientist, to its 2022 class of…

January 12, 2023

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Students Become Professional Translators in Donatella Melucci’s Course

In Donatella Melucci's course on Italian Translation, students work as a team to translate a book for…

January 11, 2023

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Politico Donna Brazile Celebrates 20+ Years on the Hilltop

Veteran political strategist Donna Brazile is celebrating 21 years of teaching at the Georgetown University College of Arts &…

January 5, 2023

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College of Arts & Sciences Professor Awarded Grant for Algorithmic Metalinguistic Analysis

The National Science Foundation has awarded Nathan Schneider a grant of more than $500,000 to develop algorithms to analyze metalinguistic…

December 19, 2022

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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Receives MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the recipient of the 2021 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for her book The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African…

December 13, 2022

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Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences Professor Appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at HUD

After teaching about housing policy on the Hilltop for the last decade, Brian McCabe (SFS’02) is now leading housing policy development for the Biden Administration within the…

November 10, 2022

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Did the Suffragist Movement Rely on Racism? New Play Explores Hidden History

“Bitter Flower,” an original play from award-winning novelist and playwright Jennifer Natalya Fink, opens November.…

November 4, 2022