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    Georgetown Community Greets First-Years, Helps Them Settle at Georgetown

    Each year, Georgetown alumni, faculty and staff volunteers meet unaccompanied first-year students at airports, train or bus stations through the Georgetown Scholars Program’s (GSP) Project Move-in.

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    The opportunities in my global health major, campus involvement and lectures and events have strengthened and broadened my understanding of how various geopolitical, legislative, socio-economic, demographic and environmental factors simultaneously intersect to affect health and well-being.”
    Intensive DC Internships at Core of New Downtown Learning Opportunity

    Georgetown students will have the opportunity to join a new immersive downtown DC community next fall in which they intern during the day, take classes at night and explore issues…

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    DC Jail Students Benefit From Georgetown’s Popular Problem of God Course

    Georgetown postdoctoral researcher Alphonso Saville teaches a credit-bearing version of the university's beloved Problem of God course to DC Jail students that he'll teach on campus this fall.

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    Scientists Mark First Evidence That Dolphins Give Birth in Potomac River

    The first evidence that the Potomac River is a breeding area for wild bottlenose dolphins has been gathered by graduate students working with Georgetown biologist and dolphin expert Janet Mann.

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    First-Generation Students Thrive in Program Celebrating 50 Years

    Georgetown marks the 50th anniversary of the Community Scholars Program by celebrating its longtime commitment to affordability and access to higher education among first-generation and low-income college students.

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    • The Whole Person
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    Welcoming balloons float at Dulles Airport
    Georgetown Community Greets First-Years, Helps Them Settle at Georgetown

    Each year, Georgetown alumni, faculty and staff volunteers meet unaccompanied first-year students at airports, train or bus stations through the Georgetown Scholars Program’s (GSP) Project Move-in.

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    The opportunities in my global health major, campus involvement and lectures and events have strengthened and broadened my understanding of how various geopolitical, legislative, socio-economic, demographic and environmental factors simultaneously intersect to affect health and well-being.”
    Intensive DC Internships at Core of New Downtown Learning Opportunity

    Georgetown students will have the opportunity to join a new immersive downtown DC community next fall in which they intern during the day, take classes at night and explore issues…

  • Academic Life
    • Restless Inquiry
    • Our Schools
    • Areas of Study
    • Study Abroad
    Alphonso Saville
    DC Jail Students Benefit From Georgetown’s Popular Problem of God Course

    Georgetown postdoctoral researcher Alphonso Saville teaches a credit-bearing version of the university's beloved Problem of God course to DC Jail students that he'll teach on campus this fall.

  • Research
    • Centers and Programs
    • Global Initiatives
    • Library System
    dolphins in the Potomac
    Scientists Mark First Evidence That Dolphins Give Birth in Potomac River

    The first evidence that the Potomac River is a breeding area for wild bottlenose dolphins has been gathered by graduate students working with Georgetown biologist and dolphin expert Janet Mann.

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    Emmanuel Thomas reading a book outside.
    First-Generation Students Thrive in Program Celebrating 50 Years

    Georgetown marks the 50th anniversary of the Community Scholars Program by celebrating its longtime commitment to affordability and access to higher education among first-generation and low-income college students.

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Discovery & Impact

Ecological Crisis: U.S., Canada Lost One in Four Birds in the Last 50 Years

Nearly 3 billion birds have disappeared from the United States and Canada since 1970, according to a study published today in Science, co-authored by Georgetown Environment Initiative (GEI) director Peter…

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Discovery & Impact

Scientists Mark First Evidence That Dolphins Give Birth in Potomac River

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Discovery & Impact

Major Crises Can Turn Democracies Into Dictatorships, Book Claims

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Research Aims to Disrupt Traditional Thinking Around Development Funding

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Discovery & Impact

Undergraduate Designs Better Way to Study Zebra Fish

Alexander Brown (C'20) designed a new way to streamline research on the brains of zebra fish, which are studied to further understanding of the human brain.

December 10, 2019
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Discovery & Impact

Students Contribute to New Women, Peace and Security Index Launched at UN

Elena Ortiz (SFS’21) and Bryan Haiwen Zou (G’20) are among the several Georgetown students who played a role in the latest Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security rankings released…

November 19, 2019
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Discovery & Impact

Animals in Heaven? Jesuit Professor’s New Book Claims Catholic Theology Says Yes

Christopher Steck, S.J., an associate professor of theology and Jesuit priest, says Catholic theology suggests animals will join people in heaven in his new book.

November 18, 2019
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Discovery & Impact

Georgetown Entrepreneurs Win $100,000 in Prizes at Annual ‘Bark Tank’ Event

A web platform created by two undergraduates that connects students with side businesses to the broader marketplace was among the winner's at last night's Bark Tank competition.

November 15, 2019
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Discovery & Impact

McCourt School Professor Sheds New Light on Urban Evictions

Eva Rosen, assistant professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy, researches the little-known landscape of evictions in Washington, DC, including the widespread practice of filing eviction notices without removing…

November 13, 2019
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Discovery & Impact, Veteran & Military-Connected Community

Resilience Expert Explores Tolerance to Stress, Trauma in Military Members, Others 

Elizabeth Stanley, a resilience expert and U.S. Army veteran, examines examines the neurobiology of stress, trauma and resilience in military personnel and other people who function in high-stress environments.

November 6, 2019
Discovery & Impact

Four Professors Honored With Prestigious Research and Teaching Awards 

Georgetown recognizes scholars of linguistics, neuroscience, environmental history and language for their impact in research and the classroom. …

November 5, 2019
Discovery & Impact, Veteran & Military-Connected Community

Brain Studies: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness Are Distinct Conditions

Georgetown researchers find evidence that Gulf War Illness and chronic fatigue syndrome share symptoms, but are two distinct disorders that affect the brain in opposing ways.

October 28, 2019
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Discovery & Impact

Study Shows Heightened Risk of Adverse Financial Changes Before Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

Georgetown University Medical Center researchers discover that prior to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a person in the early stages of the disease faces a heightened risk of adverse financial outcomes.

October 25, 2019
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Discovery & Impact

Why, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually Saw

Georgetown neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a “crash in visual processing” — a bottleneck of feedforward and feedback signals that can cause us not to be…

October 24, 2019
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