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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

Georgetown Magazine

Dec 2018

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

Nashville Mayor David Briley (C’88) has a political pedigree that led him become the city’s top leader. A longtime Metro councilman at large, he was elected vice mayor in 2015, becoming interim mayor...

Alumni at Work

Dec 2018

Comedian Jim Gaffigan Stands Up for First-Generation Students

Comedian and father of five Jim Gaffigan (B’88) cares about higher education for first-generation college students at Georgetown University. Gaffigan took time away from his new “Fixer Upper” comedy...

Alumni at Work

Carmen Ortiz Larsen established a technology business in 1980 with another Georgetown physics student, Keith King (C’73).

Nov 2018

Georgetown Trailblazer Reflects on Her Experiences in the First Co-ed STEM Class

Carmen Ortiz Larsen (C’73) is the CEO and founder of AQUAS, Inc.—an engineering and technology business located in Kensington, Maryland.

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The team from MedStar Georgetown University Hospital posing

Oct 2018

Anesthesiology Team Recognized for Protocols to Prevent Post-Surgical Opioid Addiction

According to an NIH study, of those who began abusing opioids in the 2000s, 75 percent reported that their first opioid was a prescription drug. As the opioid crisis in the U.S. intensifies, the...

Georgetown Magazine

The team developing Crane Cam (pictured right) has used the Maker Hub to bring their construction safety product to fruition.

Oct 2018

Maker Hub Celebrates International Successes in Innovation

Refugees have immediate needs of water, food, medicine, and shelter. But they also need something else to start their lives anew: a credit score. To help migrants and refugees build credit, a cross-...

Georgetown Magazine

Oct 2018

Main campus reunion 2018

More than 4,500 alumni and family members returned to the Hilltop for Reunion 2018.

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Georgetown Campus featuring cherry blossoms and Healey

Oct 2018

Pope Francis, the Pope of Dialogue

In his 2017 book Jorge Mario Bergoglio: Una biografia intellettuale, Massimo Borghesi attempts to excavate the intellectual “pattern of thinking” of Pope Francis by exploring the Pontiff ’s...

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Between 1983 to 2013, 119 mass shootings took place in the world. 66% were in the U.S.

Oct 2018

Using Analytics to Demonstrate Gun-Violence Patterns

Between 1983 to 2013, 119 mass shootings took place in the world. 66% were in the U.S.

Georgetown Magazine

Oct 2018

John Carroll Weekend Seattle

Seattle’s legendary drizzle didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the more than 1,000 members of the Georgetown family who attended April’s John Carroll Weekend.

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The Institute for the Study of International Migration at SFS studies a range of complex contemporary issues such as forced migration from environmental and political causes

Oct 2018

SFS Institute Wrestles With New Global Migration Challenges

The Institute for the Study of International Migration at SFS studies a range of complex contemporary issues such as forced migration from environmental and political causes.

Georgetown Magazine

Jane Aiken (L'85, Parent'14), Professor of Law and Gender Equity Task Force Chair

Oct 2018

New Task Force to Focus on Gender Equity at Georgetown

In March, Georgetown President John J. DeGioia announced the creation of a university-wide Gender Equity Task Force to assess how gender equity can be strengthened and encouraged among faculty and...

Georgetown Magazine

Oct 2018

Why Are Arrests for D.C. Girls So High?

Girls make up an increasingly larger portion of DC's Juvenile Justice System

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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

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

Comedian Jim Gaffigan Stands Up for First-Generation Students

Georgetown Trailblazer Reflects on Her Experiences in the First Co-ed STEM Class

Anesthesiology Team Recognized for Protocols to Prevent Post-Surgical Opioid Addiction

Maker Hub Celebrates International Successes in Innovation

Main campus reunion 2018

Pope Francis, the Pope of Dialogue

Using Analytics to Demonstrate Gun-Violence Patterns

John Carroll Weekend Seattle

SFS Institute Wrestles With New Global Migration Challenges

New Task Force to Focus on Gender Equity at Georgetown

Why Are Arrests for D.C. Girls So High?

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