Fighting for Justice: Three College Alumni Create Positive Community Change
August 3rd, 2020
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash July 30, 2020 Three social justice activists who began engaging in community advocacy during their time at …
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Thank You to Our Faculty, Staff, and Students
These are unprecedented circumstances that we are all navigating, and we’re grateful to the many Georgetown employees and first responders for all that you do, as this is the truest example of our values in action.
A Message from President DeGioia
As we once again grapple with the devastating impact of racism and hatred in our nation, we know we have much to do to rebuild our nation.
President DeGioia announced a framework for a phased return to campus
Over the past several weeks, Georgetown has convened groups of experts to support planning for the coming academic year during a time of risk and uncertainty posed by COVID-19. Today, President DeGioia announced a framework for a phased return to campus.
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Congrats #Hoyas2020!
Notable Georgetown alumni welcome the newest graduates with advice and encouragement during the virtual commencement ceremony.
Chaplains Offer Weekly Reflections
As a way to move into the online world of connectivity, chaplains in @GeorgetownOCM will offer weekly reflections for the community.
Latest News
Three Georgetown Students Help Bridge the Gap Between Food Insecurity and Waste
July 24th, 2020
In 2018, an estimated 37 million Americans were food insecure, including more than 11 million children, according to the United States …
Racial Inequities and Police Reform
July 24th, 2020
McCourt Professor Andrea Headley shares key terms, research, and several policy considerations on the topic of racial inequities and police reform. …
Ph.D. Candidate Looks to Build on Narratives of Enslaved Muslims in the Americas
June 11th, 2020
March 25, 2019 Rahma Maccarone (G’23) grew up in Somalia hearing rich oral narratives about heroines and heroes of war and tales of everyda…
Provost’s Blog
Once in a Hundred Years
August 6th, 2020
My vote for phrase of the year is “once-in-a-hundred years’” as a modifier to some noun. A quick search of the internet shows common usage of “one-in-a-hundred years” in reference to the pandemic, fiscal crisis, floods, forest fires, rain storms, hurricanes/typhoons, crop loss, and drought. But also, “once-in-a-hundred-year” transformation of the automobile industry, new Lamborghini […]
Virtual Mentoring
July 30th, 2020
Georgetown announced today that classes will begin in about three weeks using an online format. First-year students, previously welcomed to residence halls on the Hilltop campus, learned that they, too, will experience Georgetown in a virtual mode along with sophomores, juniors and seniors. The programs of the School of Continuing Studies had moved to online […]
Time, Systems, and Subsystems
July 22nd, 2020
Over the past few years, a global integration of people, production, products, and services has evolved. This is a very tightly coordinated system that allowed work to move across space more frictionlessly than ever before. It relied on people moving across countries. It built sectors that relied on one another, driven by market forces. One […]
Ingredients of Social Behavior Change
July 15th, 2020
From time to time, societies and the cultures they contain, exhibit large scale changes in behavior of their members. The process is often rather lengthy. It sometimes begins with scientific or academic findings of ill effects of current behaviors. For example, evidence linking smoking of tobacco to lung cancer probabilities began to converge in the […]