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Bioethicist, Former Professor Receives Honorary Degree
videoDecember 4, 2012
Dr. John Collins Harvey, a former professor of medicine and chair of the bioethics committee at Georgetown University Hospital, received an honorary degree in a Dec. 3 ceremony.
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Delegation to U.N. Climate Change Convention Includes Students, Faculty
December 3, 2012
Students and faculty from Georgetown's Washington, D.C., and Doha, Qatar, campuses gathered in the latter city to observe the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Woodrow Wilson Lecture Series Named for Georgetown Diplomatic Historian
November 30, 2012
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C., think tank, names its annual lecture series on U.S.-East Asian relations for Georgetown professor Nancy Bernkopf Tucker.
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'Sleepwalk with Me' Film is Alumnus' Sundance Success
November 28, 2012
Mike Birbiglia's (C'00) Sleepwalk with Me film, based on his off-Broadway play and book, won the 2012 Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Civil War Christmas Musical D.C. Premiere at Georgetown
photosNovember 27, 2012
Georgetown presents the D.C. premiere of A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration through Dec. 8 at the university's Davis Performing Arts Center.
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World Bank Economist to Join Georgetown Economics Faculty
November 27, 2012
Martin Ravallion, director of the World Bank’s research department, becomes Georgetown's inaugural Edmond D. Villani Chaired Professor of Economics in the spring semester.
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USAID Chief Economist Joins School of Foreign Service Faculty
November 27, 2012
Steve Radelet, the chief economist for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will become a distinguished professor in the School of Foreign Service's global human development program.
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Georgetown, Livermore Create New Disaster Management Degree
November 27, 2012
The School of Continuing Studies and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory create an executive master's program in emergency and disaster management that will launch in fall 2013.
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Georgetown Joins Partnership on Website Studying Microbes
November 26, 2012
Biology professor Anne Rosenwald helps lead a Georgetown partnership (which includes the J. Craig Venter Institute) on the Genome Solver website, which allows faculty and students to research the numerous microbes that populate the body.
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Student to Pursue ‘Survival Migration’ Studies with Marshall Scholarship
November 20, 2012
Shea Patrick Houlihan (SFS'13) will study at the University of Sussex in England as one of two Georgetown students selected as a Marshall scholar this year.
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