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How to Keep Students Engaged During Online Classes, According to Psychologists

A new paper from Georgetown psychologists examines how students are affected by turning their cameras either on or off during large online.  …

August 23, 2022

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Taking Neuroscience to School: Brain Scans Reveal the Hidden Shape of Thinking and Predict Students’ Learning Better Than Test Scores

A team of researchers, led by Georgetown neuroscientists, have documented a link between different modes of. …

August 10, 2022

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What’s Goo Got to Do with It? Georgetown Physicists Study Fundamental Structure of Flowing Cornstarch-Water Mixture

A team of Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences physicists has captured, in high resolution, video of cornstarch grains flowing through water and interacting to jump between…

August 1, 2022

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Georgetown Researchers Design Effective, Reusable Mask to Fight Airborne Threats

A team of Georgetown researchers are one of ten groups in the running for a $400,000 prize for designing an innovative, lightweight and reusable. …

June 10, 2022

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Analyzing Ceramics Sheds Light on Xenophobia, 1300 Years Too Late

This spring, Xin Zheng, a double major in art history and history, presented his paper on the depiction of ethnic minorities in Tang Dynasty (618-907) pottery at the SUNY New…

June 7, 2022

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Georgetown Physicist Studies Glass Transition in Polymers

A paper co-authored by Peter Olmsted examines how polymers become glassy at the molecular. …

May 27, 2022

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Colloquium for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities Showcases Academic Tenacity 

Students recently exhibited independent and mentored research at the Colloquium for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities ).…

May 20, 2022

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History Professor Wins Guggenheim to Explore Japanese History

Jordan Sand, a professor of Japanese history and culture, has been named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. Japan, which has been around for more than 1,300.…

May 4, 2022

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New Study Exonerates Urban Pests Like Rats as One-of-a-Kind Disease Reservoirs

An international research team led by scientists at Georgetown University has found that city wildlife might pose less of a threat for future pandemics than once.…

May 2, 2022

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Striving for a Sustainable Future with Materials Science

Kai Liu, a physicist and materials scientist, is developing new materials that can create greener, more sustainable. …

April 28, 2022