Archive: Student Research
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College Senior Solveig Baylor (C’22) Awarded Second Place for Interdisciplinary Research at Big East Research Symposium
Solveig Baylor (C’22) won second place at the inaugural Big East Research Symposium, an event designed to highlight the value of undergraduate research, for her project titled, “Women’s Autonomy and Inheritance Law in India.”
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Georgetown Named Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Student Awardees
Georgetown University is the second highest producer of U.S. Fulbright Student Program awardees for 2021-2022, the U.S. Department of State announced on February 28.
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Colleen Baer (C’22) Contributes to Research at the Intersection of Religion and Reconciliation in Ireland
As part of the Figge Fellows Program, Colleen Baer (C’22) is researching the impact of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis on the challenges of peace making in Northern Ireland. Though peace negotiations in the 1990s led to the successful signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the process of reconciliation has taken much longer and is still ongoing.
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Three College Undergraduate Students Developing Career Skills Through Beeck Center Student Analyst Program
Ethan Fan (C’24), Katie Hawkinson (C’23) and Zega Ras-Work (C’23) were three of the four College undergraduates selected as this year’s student analysts for the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation. The program is an immersive learning experience in social impact that provides paid fellowships to students. In addition to working at the Beeck Center, student analysts engage in a curriculum of workshops, dialogues and team-building activities.
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Junior Estefania Acosta Conducts Research on Colombia for First-of-Its Kind Database on Latin American Governments, Laws and Institutions
Estefania Acosta (C’23) is conducting research on Colombia for States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America (SIGLA), a multilingual database on legal and political institutions in Latin America. This database is one of the few that provides systematic and clear information on Latin American government, laws, or institutions, which Acosta says has led to challenges as an RA but also underscores the importance of the research.
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Figge Fellows Research Program Welcomes Seven New Undergraduate Students
The Figge Fellowship Program, led by Drew Christiansen, S.J., Ph.D., and David J. Collins, S.J., Ph.D., recently announced its new cohort of fellows. This fellowship will allow the group of seven undergraduates to pursue research at the intersection of religion and issues of social, cultural and historic importance.
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Junior Creates Organization to Advocate for More Accessible Practices in High School Debates
Alanna Cronk (C’23) started the organization 1AC-ACCESSIBILITY (1AC), which seeks to make high school debates more accessible to those with disabilities, in the spring of her sophomore year. A speech
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Royden B. Davis Fellow Justin Goldstein Conducting Research to Optimize Question Answering Results
Computer science major Justin Goldstein (C’24) was selected as one of this year’s Royden B. Davis Fellows. The sophomore will use this fellowship to fund his summer research on passage retrieval for question answering (QA) at Georgetown’s InfoSense Lab.
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CAC Hosts Second Virtual Colloquium for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities
The Colloquium for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (CRSSH) is an annual conference that allows students from across the university to present their research findings to their peers and professors. This year, three undergraduates presented their research virtually through video and powerpoint in the panel presentation moderated by Tommaso Astarita, a professor in the Department of History.
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Senior Proposes Legal Clinic for DC Youth at George Washington Law Through EDIJ Program
Caroline Jaipaul (C’21) is submitting a proposal to start a legal clinic at George Washington Law that will serve DC youth who are currently court-involved through oral and written advocacy and will strive to interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in Washington. Jaipaul is completing this as part of her capstone project for her Education, Inquiry and Justice (EDIJ) minor.
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