Georgetown dedicates Isaac Hawkins Hall to honor the lives of the 272 enslaved children, women and men who were sold by the Maryland Province of Jesuits in 1838 to benefit the university. Read More
The 19th-century free woman of color for whom Georgetown’s Anne Marie Becraft Hall will be named April 18 founded one of the first schools for black girls in Georgetown and later became one of America’s first black nuns. Read More
Martin Scorsese screens his film Silence at Georgetown and talks about the movie, his career and religious dimensions of his work at a Faith and Culture Lecture Series event co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the Office of the President. Read More
Marine Corps veteran Cristine Starke (SFS’18) and ordained deacon Daniel Wassim (SFS’18) receive the prestigious 2017 Truman Scholarship for their graduate studies and opportunities for programs to help prepare them for public service leadership careers. Read More
English Professor Barbara Feinman Todd releases her memoir, Pretend I’m Not Here, tracking her work for newspaper legends Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Ben Bradlee, her ghostwriting for Hillary Rodham Clinton and more. Read More
A play about a white woman who contemplates donating a liver to a black woman with whom she has a common, slave-owning ancestor, was part of the third-annual Undergraduate Bioethics Research Showcase last week. Read More
McDonough Business School professors Catherine Tinsley and Jason Schloetzer along with a research team find that giving employees permission to fail can increase confidence and lead to increased sales and productivity in the workplace. Read More
1. It brightens up the Tidal Basin The cherry blossom trees line the outer rim of the Tidal Basin and create a wonderful pink hue. Read More
The McCourt School of Public Policy conferred its first Janet Reno Women’s Leadership Award upon Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, during a ceremony today at the school’s 2017 LEAD Conference. Read More
Law Center professors Laura Donohue and Alan Cohn open their fast-paced National Security Crisis Law Simulation class to Canadian national security lawyers and students from the University of Ottawa and Osgoode Hall law schools. Read More