Summer Incubator Hosts Student and Alumni Entrepreneurs
Students and alumni spend nine weeks developing their entrepreneurial ventures during the annual StartupHoyas Summer Launch Program at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. Read More
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Georgetown Researchers to Evaluate, Transform Education in Tanzania
Four Georgetown faculty members will help evaluate Big Results Now in Education, a multifaceted, multimillion-dollar Government of Tanzania-funded reform program to address the country’s educational crisis in primary and secondary schools. Read More
Critical Language Scholarship Winner Studying Arabic in Jordan
Margaret Crownover (SFS’18) is one of 12 Georgetown students to receive a 2016 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship. Read More
Janet Reno Endowment Includes Women’s Leadership Award, Forums
Janet Reno’s legacy as America’s first female Attorney General and her advocacy for justice and equality is being honored through a new Georgetown endowment focusing on disadvantaged children, and youth and families involved in the juvenile justice, child welfare and related care systems. Read More
Georgetown Convenes Global Physics Workshop
A two-day physics workshop on processes that have implications for soft robotics and smart materials began at Georgetown yesterday. Read More
Mosquito Research May Help Fight Zika Virus Transmission
Biology professor Peter Armbruster is studying the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) to, among other research avenues, discover how it manages a process called diapause. Read More
Board Approves Department of African American Studies
Meeting in Rome last week, the Georgetown board of directors approved a new Department of African American Studies, several advanced degrees and a new solar power agreement, and met with Vatican leaders. Read More
Renters Just as Civically Engaged as Homeowners, Professor Says
A Georgetown sociologist says homeownership may not be for everyone and that renters and homeowners are similarly involved in community engagement. Read More
Two Incoming Med and Law Students Selected as 2016 Tillman Scholars
U.S. Army veterans will begin their studies at Georgetown's School of Medicine and Law Center as prestigious 2016 Tillman Scholars. Read More
Faculty Help Develop Cyber Defense for Federal Government
Three members of Georgetown's computer science department have received a three-year, $1.7 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to study defenses against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on computer systems. Read More