Archive: Research
195 Articles
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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
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Rediscovering a French Connection
A contribution from Emma Doerfler (C'18) outlines the history and connection between the town of Saint-Omer, France, and Georgetown founder John.…
October 5, 2017
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Alumna's Original Play Read at Kennedy Center Festival
Landas, an original play by Cristina Maninang Ibarra (C'17), was read at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage New Play Festival last.…
October 5, 2017
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Hochman Receives NEH Public Scholar Fellowship
Georgetown College professor Brian Hochman has received a prestigious Public Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in order to work on his upcoming…
August 15, 2017
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Urbach, Blair Publish Paper on Shear Thickening Fluids
Professors Jeff Urbach and Daniel Blair published a groundbreaking paper on shear thickening fluids — also known as non-Newtonian fluids — in the journal…
August 3, 2017
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Del Gado Team Makes Breakthrough on Abrupt Aging
Physics professor Emanuela Del Gado and her team landed a paper on abrupt aging in soft materials in the prestigious journal Nature.…
June 27, 2017
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Mandal Wins Goldwater Scholarship
Neurobiology and biological physics major Ayan Mandal (C'18) is the first Georgetown student in three years to win the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, awarded to about 300…
June 13, 2017
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Maillard Paper Named Editor's Pick
When chemistry professor Rodrigo Maillard’s manuscript was selected as an Editor’s Choice at the prestigious Journal of Biological Chemistry this month, it meant…
April 10, 2017