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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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Number of Applications for Class of 2017 Holds Steady
April 3, 2013
Georgetown admitted 3,293 students into the Class of 2017 from a strong, diverse talent pool of nearly 20,000 students.
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Undergraduate Bioethics Conference to Focus on Global Health, Environment
April 2, 2013
This year's student-run National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference takes place at Georgetown for the first time April 5-7, and focuses on global health and the environment.
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World Bank President: Ending Extreme Poverty Possible by 2030
videoApril 2, 2013
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, told a Georgetown audience that the World Bank hopes to see the end of global extreme poverty by 2030.
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Former Basketball Coach John Thompson Jr. Helps Boys & Girls Club
April 1, 2013
John Thompson Jr., Georgetown’s former head basketball coach, keeps a local Boys & Girls Club from closing with a gift of more than $40,000.
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Physics Professor, Alumni Publish 'Jamming Dynamics' in Scholarly Journal
April 1, 2013
David Egolf, associate professor of physics and three Georgetown alumni explore the behavior of granular material in research that appears in this month's Nature Physics journal.
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Largest In-Pew Study of Catholics: Most Rate Parishes Good or Excellent
March 28, 2013
Researchers find that most enjoy their church experience, according to a study conducted by the Georgetown-affiliated Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA).
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