Americans should worry more about school shootings than terrorist attacks on the U.S. homeland, says School of Foreign Service professor Daniel Byman, the recent author of Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know. Read More
Dr. James Baraniuk, a Georgetown University Medical Center researcher who discovered the first physical evidence of Gulf War Illness, says the next step may be to develop a blood test for the illness. Read More
2015 Tillman Military Scholar and Gulf War veteran Benjamin Bryant (G’17) plans to pursue medical school, focus on healing others and then rejoin the service. Read More
Lawrence Gostin, faculty director of Georgetown’s O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, is honored by the American Public Health Association (APHA) Law Section for “Lifetime Achievement in Public Health Law.” Read More
The university offers military veterans numerous undergraduate and graduate educational opportunities as well as medical and financial support as it studies important issues such as Gulf War illness and post-war mental health. Read More
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) served as keynote speaker for the launch of Georgetown Law Center's low bono law firm that will provide affordable, high-quality legal services to D.C. residents who don't qualify for free legal aid. Read More
António Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a Georgetown audience yesterday that despite the current spotlight on the Syrian refugee crisis, the international community should focus on situations that pose a greater threat to global peace and security. Read More
This year's Marlow Ropes College Sailor of the Year Nevin Snow (C’16) gives an inside look at Georgetown’s sailing team and how he balances life as a student athlete. Read More
If you’re dressing up as a pirate for Halloween, keep in mind that the traditional walk-the-plank, eye-patched, alligator-fighting Captain Hook-type is just a myth, according to a Georgetown doctoral thesis by a School of Continuing Studies graduate. Read More
Senior Joseph McDonald (NHS’16) is in Mexico this semester, researching nutrition and childhood development with an emphasis on food security as a part of the Department of International Health’s practical experience abroad program. Read More