Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative
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Medical Humanities Director Lakshmi Krishnan Named a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Krishnan will spend the upcoming academic year completing her book, The Doctor and the Detective, about how modern medical diagnosis was forged as much through the literary…
June 1, 2026
- CAS Magazine: Students
Called to Action: Hoyas in Service to Others
Two recipients of the Lena Landegger Community Service Award, Urooj Ahmed (C'24) and Caroline Vail (C'24) answer the call to be of service to. …
September 26, 2024
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Howard and Georgetown Universities To Launch Joint Medical Humanities Center Funded by Mellon Foundation Grant
The Mellon Foundation has awarded a 3.5 year, $3 million grant to support a collaboration between Georgetown University and Howard University in the establishment of a center for…
January 19, 2023
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The Science of Speech: Ph.D. Student Helen Dominic Researches Improvements in Ways We Handle Immigrant Care
For patients who are not fluent in English, language barriers can cause miscommunication between the patient and their medical team, even when a third party interpreter is…
March 16, 2022