Georgetown’s faculty and staff dipped into their own pockets 50 years ago to support the university’s first six Community Scholars, and that legacy continues today in new ways, including the First-Generation Faculty and Staff Initiative. Read More
Leslie Telleria is a student in the College. “As a first-generation, low-income student, I basically grew up going through school thinking that, at best, I… Read More
Grace Maglieri (C’19) receives two awards from the Clare Boothe Luce Program, which supports women conducting research in the natural sciences. Read More
Georgetown’s board of directors welcomes seven new members and approves plans for a new master’s degree in global infectious disease at its fall meeting on campus. Read More
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tells a Georgetown audience that democracy is “in trouble” because of “an absence of leadership to hold people accountable.” Read More
The new class of McCourt Scholars hope, as future policymakers, to impact inequality in metropolitan areas, address agricultural shortages, combat climate change and enhance economic opportunities. Read More
Georgetown history professor Maurice Jackson says Washington, D.C., has secured a legacy of jazz linked to the struggle for civil rights and the music’s global reach. Read More
Georgetown alumnus Taro Kono (SFS’86), the Foreign Minister of Japan, speaks at the university and meets with students. He said Japan and China “share a responsibility to promote peace, stability and prosperity.” Read More
At the beginning of every school year, our classes are basically coughing and sneezing in unison. Sickness takes over campus when we’re about a month… Read More
An associate professor of human science at Georgetown will analyze repair of a highly deleterious type of DNA damage with a recently awarded grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read More