Georgetown alumna Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz (G’16) is first author on a paper with psychology professor Abigail Marsh that for the first time shows that people who donate kidneys to strangers exhibit enhanced empathy on a neural level with strangers. Read More
A new master’s program that teaches students to measure and analyze potential hazardous substances in the earth’s atmosphere or on its surface so they can make appropriate environmental policy will be offered nights and weekends starting this fall. Read More
Global health major Khalida Saalim (NHS’19) spends the fall semester in Ghana as a part of a 12-credit research practicum experience for seniors at the School of Nursing & Health Studies. Read More
Community members joined the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and the Office of Mission and Ministry for an evening of prayer, reflection, and respectful dialogue on what has been done and must now be done to protect the vulnerable, hold leaders accountable, and begin to reform, renew, and heal the church. Several leaders with diverse experiences and expertise examined lessons we can learn in the wake of recent revelations of abuse and cover-up in the Church, and in particular how to address an episcopal and ecclesial culture that avoids accountability and reform. Read More
A scholar of environmental law and a cognitive neuroscientist receive the prestigious President’s Awards for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers during Fall Faculty Convocation. Read More
U.S. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden asks Georgetown faculty to help expand information literacy during this year’s Fall Faculty Convocation, which celebrates the promotions of more than 30 professors on Main Campus, the Law Center and Medical Center. Read More
Georgetown is leading conversations about the clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, and bringing to campus a diverse set of thought leaders as well as survivors of sexual abuse and journalists who cover the issue. Read More
Self-Awareness: At Georgetown, you are overwhelmed with abundant opportunities happening on campus every day. The FOMO (fear of missing out) feeling kicks in as… Read More
So you want to be an entrepreneur? Well, if you’re anything like me, then you are probably super savvy and highly passionate about making the… Read More
The first large U.S. study of cognition in older breast cancer patients finds most women don’t experience cancer-related cognitive problems within the first two years after diagnosis and treatment, but a troubling trend involving chemotherapy and a specific gene may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Read More