Archive: News Story

• Leading Technology and Society Researcher Joins Georgetown for the Year To Fuel Cross-Campus Innovation

  A leading expert and researcher at Microsoft Research who studies the intersection of technology and society has joined Georgetown as a visiting distinguished professor, accelerating a university-wid

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• SFS Launches Initiatives to Open Doors for High School Students from Historically Excluded Communities

  To further its founding mission of educating future leaders who will make the world more peaceful, prosperous and equitable, the School of Foreign Service has launched two initiatives to engage with

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• Women’s and Gender Studies, Psychology Scholar Named Dean of Georgetown College

  Rosario Ceballo, Ph.D., an interdisciplinary scholar with a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education, will join Georgetown as dean of Georgetown College and prof

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• Class of 2024, New Transfer Students Move to the Hilltop, Start First In-Person Classes

  More than 800 Hoyas start classes today as part of a five-week summer program of academic, experiential learning and social activities for the Class of 2024 and newly admitted transfer students – man

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• Professor George Comer Named Director of Underrepresented Minority Student Support

  Faculty member George Comer has been appointed the school’s first director of underrepresented minority (URM) student support, where he will work toward building a more inclusive culture throughout G

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• New Program Expands Scholarship Support for Veterans and Military-Connected Students

  The Craig Newmark Veterans Scholarship Fund will eliminate out-of-pocket costs for five military-connected students, and fund experiential learning, and other community programs The McCourt School

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• Creating Cicada Curiosity: Biology Professor Launches Children’s Resource on Upcoming 17-Year Emergence

  In May of this year, the United States’ east coast will experience a recurring phenomenon that takes place nowhere else in the world: the emergence of the 17 year cicada. Martha Weiss, a professo

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• Georgetown to Launch Bachelor’s Degree Program at Maryland Prison

  The Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI)  will introduce a full bachelor’s degree program for 25 aspiring students incarcerated at Patuxent Institution in Jessup, MD, in the next academic

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• Book Celebrates 60 Years of Women at Georgetown McDonough

  When Rita Zekas Sielicki (B’60) earned her degree from Georgetown University in 1960 she made history as the first woman to graduate from the newly formed School of Business Administration.  A

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• Georgetown Launches Racial Justice Institute With Multidisciplinary Leadership

  February 22, 2021 Georgetown announced today the establishment of a new Racial Justice Institute (RJI) and the hire of three faculty members in the areas of law, the arts, health and public policy

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