Archive: Research

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Psychology Research Team Identifies Creative Anxiety

A new study by a research team at Georgetown provides the first evidence of a form of anxiety that is specific to thinking creatively and points to ways that this kind of anxiety…

June 11, 2019

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#Hoyas2019 Research Snapshots

More than 800 seniors will walk across the stage tomorrow morning and officially conclude their academic journeys at Georgetown. Meet Sam Balthazar, Corine Forward, and Sterling…

May 17, 2019

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Davis Fellowship Program Opens Doors for Research

Georgetown College is proud to announce the inaugural cohort of the Royden Davis Fellowship Program, which provides College undergraduates with funding to live in Washington D.C.…

May 13, 2019

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Three Students Present Research at ACLA Conference

While many of their peers went home or took vacations, three College students stayed on campus to present original papers at the 2019 American Comparative Literature Conference,…

April 18, 2019

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Huang Receives Award to Research MS Treatment

Professor Jeffrey Huang of the Georgetown College Department of Biology has received a major award from the National MS Society to continue research on a potentially…

April 9, 2019

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Biology Professors Coauthor Study on Monarch Migration

A major paper on monarch butterfly migration coauthored by Professors Leslie Ries and Naresh Neupane of the Department of Biology was published this week in.…

March 25, 2019

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Hsu Tackles Question of Happiness in China

Professor Becky Hsu led a multi-institutional research project into happiness in China, which inspired her own book, Happiness in China: Family, Fate, and the Good Death,…

January 29, 2019

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Senior Explores Jewish Identity in Ghana

Corine Forward (C’19) has always been fascinated by the concept of identity, especially identities that seem mysterious or idiosyncratic to most of the world. This interest…

January 14, 2019

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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