Daniel Neep, an assistant professor of Arab politics in the university's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, receives a Public Scholar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a book project titled, The Nation Belongs to All: The Making of Modern Syria . Read More
Tomás Álvarez Belón, the 2017 McTighe Prize recipient, will share his brush with death with the incoming class of first-year students during New Student Convocation on Aug. 27 and urge them to reflect daily about their purpose. Read More
Brian Hochman, associate professor of English, earns his second grant in two years from the NEH to research a book, tentatively titled All Ears: A History of Wiretapping in the United States. Read More
A Georgetown delegation of 16 students, faculty and staff joins hundreds of representatives from U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities to present on topics ranging from racial justice to immigration and explore ways institutions can best use their resources for the common good. Read More
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Dr. David Shulkin speaks at Georgetown for the federal department's second annual “VA Innovation Demo Day," an event the School of Nursing & Health Studies helped to organize. Read More
Theater and performing arts chair and professor Soyica Diggs Colbert explores how artists from Beyoncé to Spike Lee reimagine blackness in the face of violence and oppression in her new book, Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2017). Read More
Georgetown’s School of Medicine gathers its 196 members of the Class of 2021 to receive their white coats and stethoscopes and to take the Hippocratic Oath for the first time together during the ceremony marking their official welcome to Georgetown and the medical profession. Read More
Music professor Anna Celenza explores Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's fascination with jazz, how the music flourished in Italy between 1920 and 1945 and the surprising influence Italian musicians had on American culture in her new book. Read More
Best known for his book, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World (W.W. Norton, 2000), University Professor John R. McNeill has been elected to serve as president of the American Historical Association. Read More
More than 360 students and advisors from 27 Jesuit institutions are on campus to share ideas and advocate for higher education initiatives on Capitol Hill as part of the 2017 National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference. Read More