Archive: Student
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College Alumni and Senior Make Award Winning Documentary in Hopes of Freeing Wrongfully Convicted Man
Johnsenia Brooks (C’20), Cecily Burge (C’21) and Austin Riddick (C’20) recently released their documentary, Walk Tall: A Story of Innocence and Wrongful Conviction, that details the conviction of Edward Martinez, a man serving a 55 year sentence for a crime he did not commit. The trio hopes that this documentary, which won the Beeck Center Award for Social Impact in 2020, will garner public support in the case for Martinez’s freedom and advance much needed criminal justice reform.
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First-Year Student Balances School and Advocacy at Mi Familia Vota
Esme Vazquez (C’24) spent her first semester balancing her coursework alongside a full-time advocacy position at Mi Familia Vota. The first-year student says that she was eager to get involved in the wake of the election, and that she has already been able to apply what she has learned at Georgetown to her work with the organization.
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Ignatian Seminar Examines Effects of Sound on Society and Race, Builds Community from Afar
During a time when many students are isolated, Ben Harbert, a professor in the Department of Performing Arts, has worked to create unity and community in his Ignatian Seminar by studying one of our often overlooked senses: sound.
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Senior Founds NGO in Brazil that Works to End Sexual Violence
Lucas Verardi Dal Corso Roos (C’21) from Guaporé, Brazil, founded the NGO Conte Comigo after returning home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The senior is working with a team of lawyers as well as local politicians to combat sexual violence in his home town and beyond.
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Biology PhD Student Recipient of 2020 GBIF Young Researchers Award
Vaughn Shirey, a PhD student in the Department of Biology, is one of two winners of the 2020 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Young Researchers Awards. An expert jury has recognized Shirey for their effort to address data bias while modeling the long-term impacts of climate and land-use change on the butterflies that inhabit the boreal forests of North America and northern Europe.
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Jimmy O’Meara (C’23) Interns with Public Citizen Through Georgetown CALL Program to Make a Difference
Jimmy O’Meara (C’23) started his internship with Public Citizen with the Democracy is for People campaign through the Georgetown Capitol Applied Learning Labs (CALL). The English major says that he has always been passionate about using his skill set to make a difference and is excited that his work with Public Citizen will contribute to the betterment of society.
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Pia Bhatia and Grace Feagin named Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Scholars
Physics majors Pia Bhatia (C’21) and Grace Feagin (C’22) have been awarded Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Scholarships. This merit-based scholarship recognizes high-achieving undergraduate women pursuing degrees in science, math, and engineering fields.
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Senior Spends Summer Working at FairVote, Advocates for Ranked Voting Process
As we head toward Nov. 3, Georgetown student Cate Paterson (C’21) is doing her part to help ensure a fair 2020 election. A member of the Davis Fellows Program, Paterson worked as a summer intern for
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Junior in College One of 23 Selected for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Undergraduate Fellows Program
Miles Aceves-Lewis (C’22) was one of 23 undergraduates selected nationwide to participate in the Fall 2020 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Undergraduate Fellows Program. The government major is excited to apply his experiences in social justice from Georgetown to this program in order to make positive change in national policy.
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First-Year Student Presented Paper at Prestigious Computational Linguistics Conference
Even before receiving an offer of admission to Georgetown, incoming first-year student Aryaman Arora (C’24) was making waves as a budding computational linguist.
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