Archive: Research

199 Articles

News Story

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

News Story

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

News Story

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

News Story

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

News Story

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

News Story

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

News Story

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

News Story

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

News Story

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

News Story

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