Alumni Stories

Georgetown alumni are passionate and driven leaders, prompting worldwide change in industries such as business, public policy, healthcare and the arts. Read about Hoyas making their mark as men and women for others.

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Featured Stories

RaMell Ross on The Daily show with Trevor Noah

Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker, Alumnus Focuses on Injustice and Black Life

Could Tampons Change the World? This Alumna Entrepreneur Believes They Will.

Nashville Mayor Reflects on Campus, Basketball, and a Beloved Professor

Sep 2018

Highest-Ranking Civilian Woman in NATO, Alumna Receives Georgetown International Award

University alumna Rose Gottemoeller, the highest ranking civilian woman in NATO’s history and a steadfast champion for gender equality, received the International Trailblazer Award from the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS).

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Black and white photo shows a stone staircase, trees, shrubbery, and statues set against one wall of an enclosed outdoor garden.

Sep 2018

Georgetown Professor Writes Dramatic Memoir from an Italian Villa

Much like the Italian laborers who built Georgetown University's Villa le Balze estate atop a cliff in Tuscany, Professor of English John Glavin (C'64, Parent'95) devoted years and abundant patience...

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Georgetown Campus featuring cherry blossoms and Healey

Sep 2018

After Trauma, Hope

In a time when secondhand suffering as a caregiver can lead to vicarious trauma, Hope Ferdowsian, MD, MPH, adjunct associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the School of Medicine, wants...

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Sep 2018

O'Donnell Named Cohen Chair

Anne E. O’Donnell (M’82, R’85, W’87), professor of medicine and chief of the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at MedStar Georgetown University...

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photo of Jennifer Huang Bouey in a busy, Beijing crosswalk

Sep 2018

Health on the Move

Understanding people—and disease—in transit, with Georgetown’s Global Health Initiative.

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Sep 2018

Technology Catching Up With Sci-Fi

Georgetown invention offers speedy genetic detection of bacterial and viral pathogens.

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Sep 2018

New Program in Catholic Clinical Ethics

Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) partnered with the Catholic University of America with support from the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) to create a Master of Arts...

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