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Peter Marra

Leading Scientist to Direct Georgetown Environment Initiative

Peter Marra, a leading environment and conservation expert at the Smithsonian National Zoo, has been named director of the Georgetown Environment Initiative (GEI) and professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy.

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Technology for Public Good

Technology for Public Good at Georgetown University

Georgetown’s leadership in the emerging field of public interest technology and prime location in Washington, DC, has led it to co-found a network that will boost the field through scholarship, new courses, research collaborations and more.

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Bloomberg Ranks Georgetown as a Top Business School Worldwide

In a recent Bloomberg survey of over 3500 recruiting employers, Georgetown McDonough MBAs were placed in the top 5 in the world in almost every category.

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Announcing the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown

A $55 million grant is creating the largest center in the United States focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and policy at Georgetown.

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New McCourt School Dean Elected to Lead Premier Public Policy Organization

Maria Cancian, incoming dean of Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy, is elected to lead the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, which publishes the prestigious Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

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Georgetown, Kennedy Center Establish Seminar Series

Georgetown University establishes a new partnership opening up opportunities for students at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to create the Georgetown-Kennedy Center Seminar Series.

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Reena Aggarwal, featured speaker and panelist at the ACCU CAO Conference

On Saturday, February 2, 2019, Reena Aggarwal, Vice Provost for Faculty at Georgetown University, was a featured speaker and panelist at the 2019 ACCU CAO Conference, contributing expert perspectives on Catholic Identity and Global Challenges.

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Racial Justice Institute Faculty Searches

Proposals from academic units at Georgetown's Main, Medical, and Law campuses searches for faculty jointly appointed in their unit and the newly forming institute.

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Provost's Innovation in Teaching Award

The Office of the Provost is announcing the inaugural Provost’s Teaching Innovation Award, recognizing a faculty member or faculty team who has used innovative approaches to promote student-centered learning.

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Intensive DC Internships at core of new downtown learning opportunity

On Thursday, November 15, 2018, Georgetown students will have the opportunity to join the Capitol Applied Learning Lab (CALL), a new immersive downtown DC community.

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Georgetown’s main campus houses six schools that offer an array of intellectually rigorous programs designed to guide our undergraduate and graduate students toward their academic and professional goals. Our degrees include the arts and sciences, international relations, business administration, public policy, specialized certificates and continuing education programs, and executive education.

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    Baker Trust For Transformational Learning to be Established at Georgetown

    Georgetown Receives $20 Million Gift from Patricia and Jon M. Baker (C’64) for the Baker Trust for Transformational Learning. The Trust will accelerate Georgetown’s efforts to reshape students’ educational journeys.

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    Main Campus Research Services

    Georgetown is committed to the expansion of scholarly discourse and the discovery of knowledge in all of its areas of academic focus. The Main Campus Research is having a new process for research administration, reach researchadmin@georgetown.edu for general inquires.

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    Alfred Bertrand as the New Director of Georgetown University Press

    Georgetown University Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Alfred (Al) Bertrand as the new Director of Georgetown University Press. He replaces Richard Brown, who left Georgetown in October 2017 after almost 17 years.

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    Guidelines for Faculty re: Graduate Student Union Organizing

    Guidelines concerning how faculty may respond to union organizing activity among graduate students who provide teaching, research, or other service for the University.

Provost's Blog

  • Imprinting by Mentors
    April 17, 2019
    I often have the privilege of talking with faculty about their research lives. In most of these conversations, some talk about their graduate student experiences. I’m struck at the important role that mentors play in the early career of many PhD’s. Many faculty, looking back at the formative pre-PhD time, remember individual moments when the […]
  • The Three-Story Structure of Theory and Applications
    April 10, 2019
    I’m told that one country’s government weather service is a three-story building. On the top floor are theoretical climatologists and meteorologists. They are striving to elaborate the theory that underlies human understanding of the earth’s weather systems and how they change over time. Their work is highly technical and at times has no stated purpose […]
  • Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom
    April 3, 2019
    As we all try to make sense of the world day by day, we are increasingly reminded that we can learn something about almost every topic faster than ever before. But a few clicks on a keyboard generates more than we can consume fully. It might be useful, however, to make some distinctions among “data,” […]
  • Philosophy in the Financial Sector
    March 27, 2019
    The eco-system of knowledge development in the modern university is a permanent fascination to me. A key feature of this eco-system is the mix of discovery versus application that occurs. Some scholars within the academy are totally curiosity-driven. They find themselves interested in an issue and begin to use their discipline’s perspective to explore it. […]
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Provost's Podcast
Faculty in Research

First episode: Coming soon...

January, 2019
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