Archive: Research

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Freericks Assists on Brookhaven Superconductor Study

A team of scientists has tracked never-before-seen interactions between electrons and the crystal lattice structure of copper-oxide superconductors. Georgetown College physics…

May 3, 2018

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Students Showcase Linguistics Research

Six undergraduates from Georgetown College and the Walsh School of Foreign Service presented their research on linguistic landscapes to a group of peers, professors, and…

April 21, 2018

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Q & A: Women in Research

We caught up this week with Janet Mann of the Department of Biology and Garance Genicot of the Department of Economics to discuss their latest projects, the state of women in…

April 2, 2018

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Singer, Coelho Publish Influential Review of Parasite Research

Biology professor Steven Singer, postdoctoral fellow Camila Henriques Coelho and a team of Brazilian collaborators published an influential analysis of the spread of Giardia…

January 24, 2018

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Physics Major Presents Research on Autonomous Vehicles

Georgetown College physics major Isabel Binamira (C’18) recently presented a research project on the impact of autonomous vehicles at the 2018 annual meeting of the…

January 17, 2018

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Olmsted Co-Authors Paper in Nature Physics

A paper co-authored by Georgetown College physics professor Peter Olmsted has been published in the journal Nature.…

December 11, 2017

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Sticking to the Classics, Lyons Draws National Scholarship Attention

Classics major Annee Lyons (C'18) is the 2017 recipient of the Beinecke Scholarship and is a finalist for the Rhodes and Marshall.…

November 10, 2017

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Vaidya's Teenage Obesity Study Named Editor's Choice

A team led by Georgetown College Psychology Chair Chandan Vaidya has conducted the first study on the effects of weight-loss surgery on the brains of adolescents with.…

November 3, 2017

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Marsh Honored for Altruism Research

Last month, Prof. Abigail Marsh received a grant from the NSF to continue her research into the neurological basis of altruistic behavior. Earlier this month, she published a,…

October 26, 2017

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Bansal Leads Vaccine Hesitancy Study

Biology professor Shweta Bansal is leading a team that has been awarded a five-year, $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study trends in vaccine…

October 23, 2017