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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.
danah boyd, a leading expert and researcher at Microsoft Research ( @MSFTResearch ), has joined Georgetown as a visiting distinguished professor, accelerating a university-wide initiative on technology, ethics, governance and public policy.
SFS and the Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) program hosted “The Road to COP26: From Climate Ambition to Climate Action,” a panel discussion about the upcoming global summit and climate goals for the U.S., U.K. and the world.
In a new and meaningful phase of work and with the ongoing support of Georgetown, the Jesuits and the Descendants of the 272 enslaved individuals sold in 1838 by the Maryland Province of Jesuits have established a charitable foundation focused on racial healing and educational advancement.
$10.5M gift supports efforts to prepare ethical technologists and policymakers for future challenges
January 10th, 2022
Students participate in a “ Surfacing Values ” interactive exercise to explore the moral responsibilities of computer scientists to address societal issue…
Georgetown Filmmaker at QF Puts Qatar on the Academy Award Nomination Ballot
December 17th, 2021
Filmmaker and researcher at QF partner Georgetown University in Qatar ( GU – Q ) Suzi Mirgani has put Qatar on the Academy Award shortlist ballots this December wit…
Georgetown Masters Program in Educational Transformation Awarded $2.6M from U.S. Department of Education
November 18th, 2021
Georgetown ‘ s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences announces that Project ELEECT , a proposal by the Program in Educational Transformation ( MAET ), has been awarde…
New Interim Dean Named at Georgetown University in Qatar
November 4th, 2021
Georgetown University in Qatar ( GU – Q ), a QF partner , has named Dr . Clyde Wilcox , Professor of Government and a member of Georgetown University faculty since 198…
Interpersonal Interactions in the University
January 13th, 2022
A couple of years ago, the ombuds for faculty reported statistical counts of complaints of interpersonal conduct problems that were larger than expected. I wrote about the issue in a post on bullying. There were various manifestations of this behavior. Some of it seemed to arise from colleagues who failed to treat anyone with respect. […]
Inequalities within Science
January 6th, 2022
There are two thought-provoking bibliometric articles in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS) describing an increasing concentration of influence of a small number of scientists within their fields. The two articles look at different features of the scientific enterprise, the first one noting the growing inequalities of citation rates and the other […]
How We Describe Our Work
December 30th, 2021
The vast majority of university faculty have chosen their careers because they treasure the life of the mind. They are driven by a set of interests in a domain of human knowledge. They seek deeper understanding of that domain. They bring intense critical cognitive skills to the work. They select into their career because they […]
Reliving the 17th Century in a Quest for Truth
December 23rd, 2021
A former dean of Georgetown’s’ College of Arts and Sciences, Chris Celenza, has written a thoughtful essay , discussing the search for the original thoughts of Augustine (from the 4th century), by a 17th century philologist (i.e., a student of language and its utility in historical textual analysis). The scholar came to believe that the […]
