Hit Songwriting Alumnus Bill Danoff Wins Lifetime Award
The Georgetown Entertainment and Media Alliance presents singer and songwriter Bill Danoff with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2014 GEMA Rocks concert. Read More
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Brain Structure of Kidney Donors May Make Them More Altruistic
Psychology professor Abigail Marsh and researchers find people who donate kidneys to strangers have significantly different brain structures, according to a study published in today’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Read More
Georgetown Breaks Ground on New Thompson Center
Georgetown celebrates the groundbreaking of the John R. Thompson Jr. Athletics Center with current and former student athletes, university leaders and special guests. Read More
Cuban Blogger, Journalist Now Yahoo! Fellow at Georgetown
Georgetown announces award-winning Cuban journalist and author Yoani Sanchez as its new Yahoo! Fellow in International Values, Communications, Technology and the Global Internet. Read More
Georgetown Alumnus Covers Gaza-Israel Conflict for ABC
Alex Marquardt (SFS'04), an ABC News foreign correspondent covering conflicts throughout the Middle East and Europe, credits his time at Georgetown for his career path. Read More
New Healey Family Student Center Opens On Main Campus
The new Healey Family Student Center opens in New South residence hall with more than 44,000 added square feet of vibrant student living and learning spaces. Read More
Men Earn More Than Women in More Than 100 Occupations, Study Shows
An Institute for Women's Research study co-authored by McCourt School of Public Policy student Stephanie Keller Hudiburg (G’15) shows men earn more than women in the majority of occupations. Read More
Workshop Provides Class of 2018 a Shared Literary, Reflective Experience
New students read award-winning author and alumnus Dinaw Mengestu's (C'00) All Our Names and discuss reflections on novel with faculty and staff volunteers during the annual Marino Workshop. Read More
New Students Don T-Shirts Made at ‘Living Wage’ Caribbean Factory
Georgetown's newest students wear symbols of the university’s Jesuit values during orientation – T-shirts made by a factory in the Dominican Republic that offers workers a living wage. Read More
David Falk, Patrick Ewing Make $3.3 Million Gift to New Thompson Center
Sports agent David Falk and former Georgetown men's basketball All-American Patrick Ewing (C'85) have partnered to make a $3.3 million commitment toward the construction of the John R. Thompson Jr. Intercollegiate Athletics Center. Read More