Peter Marra, a leading environment and conservation expert, has been named director of the Georgetown Environment Initiative, the Laudato Si’ Professor in Biology and the Environment and professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy. Read More
Former Irish President Mary Robinson says climate change is threatening livelihoods across the globe, especially in states impacted by conflict, during a Georgetown workshop that focused on the intersection of the two issues as they relate to gender. Read More
Georgetown Law professor Peter Edelman reflects on his life of learning as the university recognizes nearly 40 faculty members and academic professionals for their 20 years of service during this year’s Spring Faculty Convocation. Read More
Kwadwo (Kojo) Sarpong's (M’22) journey to Georgetown's School of Medicine as a transfer student from community college to a four-year institution becomes the subject of his American Association for the Advancement of Science presentation on support for undergraduate researchers. Read More
Corine Forward's (C’19) studies abroad in Ghana and course on Blacks and Jews in America inspire her to research one of the most obscure and isolated communities in the world – a Ghanaian Jewish community – for her senior thesis. Read More
A new map of brain tissue in people with HIV shows atrophy in several areas, including a primary neurocognitive control center where shrinkage and loss of function can be seen in scans before clinical symptoms appear. Read More
Biology professors Leslie Ries and Naresh Neupane co-author a paper published in PNAS that helps explain why the monarch butterfly’s winter population in Mexico has continued to decline. Read More
As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the century because of global warming, says a new study that examines temperature changes on a monthly basis across the world. Read More
Set to launch this fall, the new Master of Science in Global Infectious Disease will offer specific, in-depth training in infectious disease modeling and science policy. Read More
After undergraduate and graduate student teams from Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business win the Venture Capital Investment Competition's Mid-Atlantic regionals, they advance to the national and global finals, respectively, this spring. Read More
