The GU Politics Fellows spring class includes a current Republican Congress member, a former Obama administration political advisor, a former Senate Republican communications staff director, an executive director of the 2018 Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a Washington Post opinion writer. Read More
Michaela Hitchner (NHS’19) recently returned from her semester-long research practicum in Australia, where she executed her own qualitative study on early childhood development services available at the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service. Read More
Dr. Louis Weiner, director of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, is among the National Academy of Inventors' 2018 class of fellows selected for one of the “highest" professional distinctions for academic inventors demonstrating "a prolific spirit of innovation." Read More
Georgetown Law professors Alicia Plerhoples and Zakiya Thomas teach Campaigning for Public Office, a nonpartisan simulation course that takes students through developing a brand, building a base, fundraising, ethics, developing a five- to 10-year plan and more. Read More
Comedian Jim Gaffigan (B'88) takes time from his comedy tour to support the Georgetown Scholarship Program's work with first-generation college students. He'll join fellow alumni comics John Mulaney (C'04) and Mike Birbiglia (C'00) for a sold-out Stand Up for Georgetown benefit in New York Jan. 14. Read More
A total of 16 Georgetown students have been named Millennium Fellows by the United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network. Read More
Eight students and alumni shared $100,000 in prizes at Georgetown Entrepreneurship’s second annual “Bark Tank” pitch competition at the McDonough School of Business. Read More
Robert Bies, professor of management in the McDonough School of Business, teaches undergraduates how to brainstorm solutions to problems, develop proposals and create step-by-step plans of action in his new Imagination and Creativity course. Read More
Four emerging and diverse leaders focused on how the Catholic community can unite behind a shared commitment to protect the lives of the vulnerable and the dignity of the poor; to advocate for victims of abuse and violence; and to speak up for immigrants and refugees as well as unborn children and their mothers. This conversation asked whether and how Catholics, despite the failings of our Church, can help overcome destructive polarization to bring those who are poor and vulnerable to the center of our politics, and to move forward together to pursue the common good. Read More
Georgetown alumnus Brian Ferguson (C’18), once wrongfully incarcerated for homicide and exonerated after serving 11 years of a life sentence, has won a prestigious Marshall Scholarship to pursue a master’s of comparative social policy at the University of Oxford. Read More
