Archive: Grants
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A Home for the Humanities on Campus
Professors Nicoletta Pireddu (Inaugural Director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative), and Derek Goldman and Anthony R DelDonna (Department of Performing Arts) have been awarded a $750,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a humanities hub on campus.
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Philosophy Professor Partners with CSET, Receives Grant
Philosophy Professor Maggie Little of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Jason Matheny, founding executive director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University, recently won a grant for their collaborative project, “Embedding Ethics for Career Training in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence.”
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Liu to Lead Team in Nanoelectronics Research Center
Professor Kai Liu of the Georgetown College Department of Physics is a theme leader in a major research center on nanoelectronic computing research led by the University of Minnesota.
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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 texts using computational linguistics over the next three years.
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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 throwing out the assumption that life out in space will be like life here at home.
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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 “the next frontier in the Information Age.” Advances in quantum computing could lead to immensely more powerful supercomputers, sensors, and encryption devices.
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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 papers.
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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 foundations.
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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 month.
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Green Receives Grant to Study Neurological Image of God
Psychology professor Adam Green has received a three-year, $925,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study the neural activity associated with thoughts on God.
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