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Mitch Kaneda’s first and only job has been at Georgetown. He wouldn’t have it any other way. “It is all about our students,” he said.

When Tom Crowley arrived in 1997 as a maintenance electrician, he had an unexpected task: decking the university’s 19-foot Christmas tree with lights.

Georgetown has awarded $200,000 to inaugural recipients of the Reconciliation Fund, which provides grants to projects that benefit communities of Descendants whose ancestors were enslaved on Jesuit plantations.

A team of medical students are leading active bystander trainings across Georgetown’s campuses and throughout Washington, DC, to encourage early intervention in the chain of care for opioid overdoses.