News Archive

Guggenheim to Help Professor Study How Soldiers Find Peace After War
April 15, 2013
Nancy Sherman, university professor of philosophy, receives coveted Guggenheim Fellowship to further research how service men and women cope with everyday life after returning from war.
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Students Win Bioethics Bowl at Undergraduate Conference
April 15, 2013
Georgetown's team captured its first Bioethics Bowl championship during this year's National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference hosted at Georgetown.
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New Mobile App Allows Users to Track GUTS Buses
April 15, 2013
Commuters using Georgetown's transportation shuttles are now able to map the location of their next shuttle in real time with the NextGUTS GPS-tracking feature on the Georgetown mobile app.
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Undergrads Showcase Diverse Research at Georgetown Conference
April 12, 2013
The Undergraduate Research Conference featured over 80 research posters by students from Georgetown and four other universities across the Washington, D.C., region.
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Students Act as CSI-Type Forensic Investigators, Medical Examiners
April 11, 2013
Undergraduates acted as crime scene investigators in a simulation setting for a forensic analysis class at the School of Nursing & Health Studies.
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INTERPOL Secretary General, Experts Talk Cybersecurity at Georgetown
April 10, 2013
INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald Noble is among the world's leading experts in cybersecurity gathering at Georgetown today for the International Engagement in Cyberspace conference.
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Former Congress Member Calls Partisan Atmosphere 'Unique'
videoApril 10, 2013
Former Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said Tuesday during the annual Whittington Lecture that the U.S. Congress must make a "concerted effort" to reduce the partisan atmosphere that exists.
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New Georgetown Solar Project Draws White House Attention
April 9, 2013
The ceremony marking the completion of a new solar electricity project at Georgetown brought the White House's Gary Guzy to campus.
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Alumna Writes About America’s Relationship with Chronic Illness
April 8, 2013
Laurie Edwards (C'02), who suffers from a rare respiratory disease, hopes her new book, In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America will educate both the chronically ill and general public.
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Brain Anomaly Explains Some Autistics’ Difficulty Recognizing Faces
April 4, 2013
Georgetown neuroscientists find an anomaly in the brain that explains why some people with autism have difficulty recognizing faces, according to a study published in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical.
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