The average tax on gasoline throughout the world is declining, meaning that governments are collectively failing to discourage fossil fuel consumption, according to a new study by Georgetown and UCLA professors. Read More
McCourt School professor Adriana Kugler receives a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study the effect of unemployment insurance benefits on match quality and job mobility. Read More
The McDonough School of Business' MBA Venture Fellows program provides interested full-time students with a yearlong appointment at a local venture capital firm. Read More
Georgetown student Carlos Aramayo combines his academic work at the university's School of Continuing Studies with running a Bolivian nonprofit affordable housing program. Read More
Alumnus Eugene Ubalijoro (B'86) works with Heineken's Brewing a Better World program to promote sustainability and to create links between the company and local communities and farmers in Haiti. Read More
The McCourt School of Public Policy appoints Kathy Kretman, public policy professor and director of Georgetown's Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership, and Tamara Copeland, president of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, to two new roles that focus on philanthropy in addressing racial equity in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Read More
Georgetown’s long history of alumni serving in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives continues as 28 Georgetown graduates are sworn into the 115th U.S. Congress. Read More
Georgetown bioethics expert James Giordano is appointed to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) committee charged with protecting human research subjects. Read More
Two Georgetown students have created an infographic and an interactive map to help the homeless and providers locate the city’s shelters. Read More
Timothy Jorgensen, an associate professor of radiation medicine at the Georgetown University Medical Center, finds his first book, Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation (Princeton University Press, 2016) among the top reads for 2016. Read More