Teams from 18 colleges and universities from across the country convened on campus for the first annual Summer Institute on Equity in the Academic Experience, hosted by Georgetown and The University of Texas at Austin through the American Talent Initiative. Read More
Georgetown medical students are getting a better sense of what aging patients experience and the decisions and emotions patients and families face through a new virtual reality software. Read More
A symposium honoring Vera Rubin (G’54), one of the most important American astrophysicists of the 20th century, took place this week at Georgetown, where she received a Ph.D. and began her career as a researcher and professor. Read More
A team of health policy researchers, including two from Georgetown, reports on one of the largest studies of out-of-pocket costs for nursing home care and finds that prices are rising faster than other medical care and consumer prices. Read More
A new book by Robert Patterson, chair of the Department of African American Studies, examines how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial and economic desires within African American communities. Read More
Georgetown Law professor David Koplow is a consultant to NASA on what the legal implications would be if a large asteroid were to hit the Earth. Read More
The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) partners with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to launch the International Rescue Committee (IRC)’s feminist humanitarian policy at Georgetown. Read More
Economist Keith Hall, the outgoing director of the Congressional Budget Office, will join the McCourt School of Public Policy as a professor of the practice this summer. Read More
“It is important to me that Georgetown is committed to promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue, serving vulnerable and marginalized communities and taking action against injustice. Read More
A new Georgetown study states that elevated symptoms of depression, along with modifications in a gene responsible for dopamine activity, appear to influence an addiction to indoor tanning in young, non-Hispanic white women. Read More