Archive: Research

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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

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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 &…

October 26, 2018

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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…

October 9, 2018

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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…

October 5, 2018

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Q & A: Grace Maglieri, Clare Boothe Luce Award Winner

Grace Maglieri (C’19) has been awarded both a summer research award and an academic year research scholarship from the Clare Boothe Luce Program, which supports women…

October 1, 2018

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De Luna NEH Grant Unites Humanities, Archaeology

Professor Kathryn de Luna of the Department of History has received a collaborative research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which she and two co…

September 14, 2018

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Dyson Combines Teaching, Play with Andretta Fellowship

Jake Dyson (C'19) is using the CSJ's Andretta Fellowship to conduct a qualitative research project on the role of play in childhood education this.…

August 10, 2018

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Fields Brings Black Identity Studies to Ignatius Seminar

Professor Corey Fields, the Idol Family Term Chair in the Department of Sociology, will lead the seminar “Blackness as an Organizing Strategy: Black Participation in Post…

July 30, 2018