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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

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Meghan Twohey at Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington DC

Oct 2019

Alumna Megan Twohey Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story That Helped Spark a Movement

Twohey and co-author Jodi Kantor exposed decades of alleged sexual harassment, abuse, and cover up by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

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President John J. DeGioia, Nancy Calcagnini, and Arthur Calcagnini inside the newly dedicated Calcagnini Contemplative Center in October 2013.

Aug 2019

Georgetown Mourns the Passing of an Inspirational Alumni Leader

Arthur Calcagnini, C’54 (1933-2019)

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Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Lucile Adams-Campbell

May 2019

Washingtonian Magazine Honors Epidemiologist for Alleviating Health Disparities in D.C.

Washingtonian magazine named Lucile Adams-Campbell a Washingtonian of the Year. She's a national leader in minority health and health disparities research.

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May 2019

Georgetown Researcher Partners With NASA to Detect Alien Life

If life exists on other planets, would an Earth-bound scientist even be able to detect it? Georgetown Assistant Professor of Biology Sarah Stewart Johnson is throwing out all assumptions and building...

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May 2019

Alumni Bring D.C.’s Unique Jazz History Center Stage

With the recently released book DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC, Georgetown alumni and faculty are shining a spotlight on the city’s important role in the genre’s development.

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May 2019

‘Generation I’ Fosters Whole Selves and Vulnerabilities

For the growing number of Georgetown School of Medicine students who are the first in their families to pursue medicine, navigating the path into and through medical school can be especially...

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Shavini Fernando (G’18) wears a first-level prototype of OxiWear, her invention to alert users with pulmonary hypertension when their oxygen levels drop critically low. Fernando has the condition herself.

May 2019

A Life-Saving Device That Could Save the Inventor

In fall 2018, Shavini Fernando (G’18) swept two Georgetown entrepreneurship pitch competitions, won four awards, and earned a total of $40,500 for her invention of OxiWear, a wearable tech device...

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May 2019

App Studied at Medical Center Empowers Women’s Fertility Planning

The Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University Medical Center has completed an efficacy study of a new fertility-awareness app called Dot. Developed by Cycle Technologies, Dot uses...

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May 2019

‘If Not Me, Then Who?’

When Dr. Ayaz Virji (C’96, M’00) and his family moved to rural Minnesota, they were the only Muslims in their community. Things went well until the election of Donald Trump. Somewhat reluctantly,...

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May 2019

An Innovative Way to Engage Students? What is Jeopardy! Style?

Professor Maria Trujillo came up with a fresh idea for educating at SCS while watching her husband and his daughter jockey to be the first to answer questions while viewing the TV game show Jeopardy!

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May 2019

Providing Health Care In A Social Change Model

At age 33, Maria Gomez (N'77) with a group of idealistic friends opened Mary’s Center in a D.C. basement to offer prenatal care for women migrants. Thirty years later, they are serving more than 50,...

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May 2019

Professor and Former Student Develop ‘23andMe’ for Mosquitoes

Georgetown biology professor Peter Armbruster and a former student, Jacob Crawford (C’03), reunited through a $2-million NIH research grant to control disease-carrying mosquitoes.

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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

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Alumna Megan Twohey Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story That Helped Spark a Movement

Georgetown Mourns the Passing of an Inspirational Alumni Leader

Washingtonian Magazine Honors Epidemiologist for Alleviating Health Disparities in D.C.

Georgetown Researcher Partners With NASA to Detect Alien Life

Alumni Bring D.C.’s Unique Jazz History Center Stage

‘Generation I’ Fosters Whole Selves and Vulnerabilities

A Life-Saving Device That Could Save the Inventor

App Studied at Medical Center Empowers Women’s Fertility Planning

‘If Not Me, Then Who?’

An Innovative Way to Engage Students? What is Jeopardy! Style?

Providing Health Care In A Social Change Model

Professor and Former Student Develop ‘23andMe’ for Mosquitoes

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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

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