Three new Brita, high-tech hydration stations will be installed across campus this month in a “Think Global - Drink Local” initiative that is part of the university’s Earth Day celebrations. Read More
The university community celebrated Georgetown Day on April 27. Read More
Jan Karski, the late Georgetown professor and alumnus who risked his life to bring reports of the Holocaust to the free world, will posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Read More
A Georgetown professor’s successful 12-year mission to be the first to climb every continent’s highest peak and surf every ocean has culminated in a book comparable to Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer and other adventure tales. Read More
A total of 20 students were honored with 2012 Lena Landegger Community Service awards this past Saturday at a dinner and ceremony in Georgetown’s historic Riggs Library. Read More
Maureen Corrigan of the English department, who has served for 22 years as a book critic for NPR’s “Fresh Air” program, was one of three judges for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Read More
Zayan Pereborow (B’12) a member of the executive team for the April 20 American Cancer Society Relay for Life at Georgetown, will never forget when she was diagnosed with leukemia at the tender age of 5. Read More
D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson (SFS’92, G’07), who was once convinced she had no interest in the field of education, will receive an honorary degree at Georgetown April 21 for her contributions to education reform. Read More
Indra Sen (SFS’08), who co-founded a nonprofit that provides education programs and teaches hip-hop to Palestinian youths in refugee camps and hopes to one day become an education reformer, has won a prestigious Soros Fellowship. Read More
Robert M. Groves, who successfully led the 2010 Census to count more than 308 million Americans, will become Georgetown’s new provost on August 20, 2012. Read More