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McCourt School and Howard University Sign a Memorandum of Understanding, Launch Scholar Program
January 29, 2021 Agreement Launches the Howard Scholar Program, a Full Tuition Scholarship to the McCourt School of Public Policy Georgetown University, the university’s McCourt School of Publi
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Linguistics Professor Wins Award for Social Justice for Her Work to Make Spanish Courses More Inclusive
January 25, 2021 Cristina Sanz, professor of linguistics in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, was awarded the AAUSC Innovation in Language Program Direction Award for Inclusion and Social Ju
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Georgetown University Community Invited to “Teach the Speech” in Honor of MLK Day 2021
Each year, as part of Georgetown University’s MLK: “Let Freedom Ring!” Initiative, the Center for Social Justice encourages members of our community to reflect on one of Dr. King’s famous speeche
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Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield Named Ambassador to UN, SFS Faculty and Alumni Tapped for Biden Agency Review Teams
November 23, 2020 As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office, he is drawing on the expertise and recommendations of members of the SFS faculty and alumni community for his foreign policy
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Theater, African American Studies Scholar Appointed Interim Georgetown College Dean
November 11, 2020 Georgetown has appointed performing arts and African American studies scholar Soyica Colbert as the new interim dean for Georgetown College, effective Jan. 1. Colbert, the Ido
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Chemistry Professor Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Global Scholarship for Research on Reduction of Greenhouse Gases
October 20, 2020 YuYe J. Tong, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and director of the Environmental Metrology & Policy Program, was awarded a competitive Fulbright Global Scholar Award for
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Leader in Innovative Learning Prepares Georgetown for New Methods in Education
October 20, 2020 Eddie Maloney, executive director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), says COVID-19 has presented challenges to learning as usual, but he’s watched
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Trillions of Extra Economic Damages Predicted in New Study of Climate Change Effects
The world is underestimating the economic effects of climate change by trillions of dollars, according to a new study co-authored by Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy professor Raphael Cal
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Henry Richardson and Collaborators Advance Discussion of the Ethics of Global Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines
KIE Senior Research Scholar Henry S. Richardson partnered with a global group of experts in co-authoring a new paper in Science entitled “An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation,” publ
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Georgetown Humanities Initiative Promotes Collaboration and Community
The Georgetown Humanities Initiative was conceived by the College as a way to foster collaborative projects across departments and schools that highlight the human element of research and service. In
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