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Working Toward Global Peace Goal of Rangel Fellowship Winner

Georgetown alumna Kawther Berhanu (C’19) received the prestigious 2020 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship to pursue a career in the Foreign Service, and work…

February 4, 2020

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Observatory Named for Georgetown Physicist Who Encourages Next Generation of Women in Science

Sarah Jiang (C’21) says she’s thrilled that the National Science Foundation chose to name a telescope designed to conduct “a vast astronomical survey” after Vera Rubin …

January 31, 2020

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Department Highlight – Mathematics & Statistics Professor Kimberly Sellers Creates Varied Research Opportunities for Students

If the movie Hidden Figures taught us anything, it is that there are often forces in the background working to make anything possible. Though the study of math and statistics is…

January 27, 2020

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Disability Studies Learning in Practice Fellowships Awarded

With the support from the Provost’s Innovation in Teaching award, the Disability Studies program has granted three Learning In Practice Fellowships to Madeleine Gibbons…

December 17, 2019

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Georgetown Student Starts First-of-Its Kind Political Comedy Show

Alexandra Bowman (C’22), a passionate viewer of political late-night TV shows and the television offerings of Monty Python, decided to start her own political satire web.…

December 9, 2019

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Student Gains Valuable Experience Working in France, Contributes to Better Community

Alero Oyinlola (C’22) ­­has been passionate about economic development since before college. With the help of the Davis Fellowship Program, she was able to work with an…

December 2, 2019

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Student Designs Better Way to Study Zebrafish

Alexander Brown (C’20) created a new product to help him research the brains of zebra fish. Due to the success of its design, further research on the neurobiology of zebra fish…

November 18, 2019

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Senior Spends Summer Building Program that Will Help Analyze 22 of the World’s Technology Giants

Prior to this summer, Gaby Walton (C’20) was eager to apply the coding skills she had learned beyond the classroom. In August, she developed a program that assists in the…

November 11, 2019

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Georgetown Professor Launches Remembering YoU, a Community Archiving Initiative to Preserve Historic U-Street Neighborhood

Department of History Professor Ananya Chakravarti is working to preserve the rich history of one of Washington’s most culturally vibrant neighborhoods. She and Georgetown…

November 6, 2019

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Georgetown Student Worked to End Poverty in Mabule, Botswana

Mayesha Awal (C’20) traveled to Botswana as part of the Davis Fellows Program during the summer of 2019. Now that she is back, Awal is more motivated than ever to continue…

November 5, 2019