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Kartikeya Uniyal (SFS’23), whose Access Labs uses websites and chatbots to develop accessible and engaging skills training for high school students, received support from Georgetown and other universities and organizations.

Nursing students vaccinated about 400 undergraduates against the flu at a Student Health Center clinic organized with the School of Nursing & Health Studies and the university’s public health team.

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.

Meghan Chapple, Georgetown’s first vice president of sustainability, will build on Georgetown’s ongoing sustainability work and lead the university’s strategic actions to make our university and world more sustainable.

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.

As we observe the 20th anniversary, we remember all those affected by the events and reflect on the impact of the tragedy on our community, nation and world.

Nazima Razick (C’93, G’99, L’99) organized emergency management and cross-training programs as chief of American Citizen Services – unknowingly preparing her team’s crisis response skills for the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.