Get to know the Hoyas participating in the Tokyo Summer Olympics, hear from experts about Olympic sponsorships and superstitions and look back to the archives for Georgetown at Olympics past.
Georgetown hosted plenaries examining Universal Apostolic Preferences, Ignatian spirituality, racial justice, immigration, women in leadership and environmental justice with Jesuit university faculty, staff, administrators and board members.
Georgetown professor Jeanine W. Turner and Bishop Brian Farrell explore how videoconferencing impacts ecumenical dialogue – a complex type of conversation that brings together different Christian traditions in conversation.
Georgetown joined 150 universities in signing onto an amicus brief supporting temporary employment authorization for international students, which a case in the Court of Appeals seeks to eliminate.
Daniela Rojas Medina (G’21) will further her work as co-president of Georgetown Women in International Affair, highlighting the leadership of women – especially women of color – in male-dominated fields.
Biology major Laura Ratliff (C’21) assists the international Mars Ice Mapper mission, conducting research and writing articles to enable future human exploration of the red planet.
Bserat Ghebremicael’s (B’17) advocacy for women and girls caught amid armed conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, is informed by her Georgetown experiences, her day job at Google and her nonprofit work.
Mohamed Soltan (G’21) will scale up work with The Freedom Initiative, a nonprofit supporting political prisoners in the Arab world that he founded after his own 633-day detention in Egypt.
More than 300 students from 39 countries and more than 50 global institutions gathered virtually for Hoya Hacks, a 36-hour marathon hardware and software design and coding competition.
