New Georgetown research reveals slowing rates of progress for women worldwide, with Norway ranked No. 1 and Afghanistan last on the 2021 Women, Peace and Security Index.

Students and faculty in the School of Nursing & Health Studies helped develop a new educational module on implicit bias for the District of Columbia Department of Health.

The study by Georgetown Medical Center and MedStar National Rehabilitation Network researchers found some benefit for intensive rehabilitation at less than 30 days, but no significant benefit after six months.

McCourt’s Amy O’Hara and Georgetown Law’s Tanina Rostain are working with Amazon Web Services on the Civil Justice Data Commons, a repository of court data for researchers and judicial institutions.

Faculty, student and alumni researchers in Georgetown’s Happiness Lab found online interactions with close ties predicted positive effects — but online interactions with strangers are associated with lower connectedness.

The graduate students leveraged their skills and professional connections – including with organizations on the ground and Georgetown faculty – to raise $8 million and charter flights out of Kabul.

Alvaro Bedoya, founding director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology and visiting professor, researches the importance of privacy for people of color, immigrants and working people.

Professor of Public Policy and Economics Adriana Kugler, who researches public policies, unemployment and immigration, previously served as chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor during the Obama Administration.

As the tragic and difficult events have unfolded in Afghanistan in recent days and weeks, members of the Georgetown community have built on ongoing efforts to find ways to help.

The findings, published in Nature Human Behavior, show that key brain functions that underlie critical aspects of cognition like memory, decision making and self-control can actually improve in older individuals.