Archive: News Story

• 2023-2024 Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellows

  Melinda GonzálezSchool of Foreign Service Dr. Melinda González is a Puerto Rican scholar and poet, who was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, with ancestral home in the lush mountain

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• McCourt School professor joins Georgetown’s Racial Justice Institute

  As a founding co-director, Dr. Evelyn Patterson will help lead the Institute’s interdisciplinary work at the intersection of race, equity and action. Georgetown has appointed McCourt School Pr

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• GIWPS participates in the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva 

  By: GIWPS | June 29, 2023 The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) participated in the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council, an annual convening in Geneva run by an inter

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• Georgetown, Knight Foundation Commit $30M to New Institute on Tech Policy for the Common Good

  Georgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues rel

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• Georgetown Receives $21M From NIST to Train U.S. STEM Workforce

  A group of Georgetown faculty secured up to $21 million in funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide laboratory experience and financial support to researchers

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• Nicoletta Pireddu Wins Comparative Literature’s Most Prestigious Award

  Nicoletta Pireddu’s book Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism has been awarded comparative literature’s most prestigious award: the René Wellek Prize. Conferred by the

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• Massive Data Institute partners with leading data scientists at Howard and Morgan State Universities

  The cross-institutional team is developing an Environmental Impact Data Collaborative to support the use of data to make environmental policy more effective and just. The Massive Data Institute (M

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• Beeck Center Appoints Senior White House Leader as New Executive Director

  Lynn Overmann is the new executive director of Georgetown’s Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation. Georgetown’s Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation has hired Lynn Overmann, a sen

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• Georgetown Named No. 1 Producer of Fulbright Student Scholars in the U.S.

  Georgetown students and alumni won the highest number of Fulbright scholarships out of any other college or university in the U.S. for the 2022-2023 academic year, the State Department announced Feb.

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• Georgetown’s First VP for Interdisciplinary Initiatives To Promote Collaboration for the Common Good

  Georgetown has appointed Soyica Colbert, former interim dean of the Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences and Idol Family Professor of Performing Arts and African American Studies, to be vice preside

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