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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

Georgetown Magazine

May 2019

Raising Children in the Digital Age

Children's use of digital media presents parents with lots of questions. Meet three Georgetown researchers who are working on science-based answers.

Georgetown Magazine

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!

Georgetown Magazine

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,...

Georgetown Magazine

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.

Georgetown Magazine

May 2019

You Don’t Need an Engineering Degree to Be a Hoya Tech Success

Here’s a piece of advice from the Forbes magazine Coaches Council, published last summer: Recruit for “learnability,” wrote one expert coach. “With changes in organizational structures that require...

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May 2019

School of Foreign Service Marks 100 Years of Global Service

In the aftermath of World War I, the United States emerged as both a military and economic power. “This critical moment in world history inspired the creation of the first U.S. school of...

Georgetown Magazine

May 2019

Q&A with Melissa Tidwell (C’99), VP and General Counsel at Reddit

There is no one journey to end up in tech. After an American Studies degree from Georgetown and a law degree from NYU, Tidwell decided she wanted to work in tech. Now she has Google and Reddit on her...

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EAG members have continued to apply lessons from the adaptation-planning process to workforce development and community education.

May 2019

Law Center Partners with Ward 7 to Build Climate Resilience

Georgetown Law’s Climate Center works to help state and local governments prepare for the impacts of climate disruption. Now the center’s Adaptation Program has been recognized for its innovative...

Georgetown Magazine

May 2019

Georgetown University Alumni in Congress

More than two dozen Georgetown alumni were sworn into the 116th Congress on January 3, continuing Georgetown’s long legacy of alumni serving the public. A total of 28 alumni, who represent 21 states...

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Georgetown alumni comedians Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, and Mike Birbiglia on stage in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House

May 2019

A Good Laugh

Three noted alumni comedians—Mike Birbiglia (C'00), John Mulaney (C'04), and Jim Gaffifan (B'88)—raised more than $1 million to support first-generation Hoyas at a sold-out New York City show.

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Jack the Bulldog looking upward with his tongue out licking his nose

May 2019

Canine Campus Celebrity

Think you know Jack the Bulldog? Read on. Spoiler alert: He wasn't always Jack and wasn't always a bulldog.

Georgetown Magazine

May 2019

Endogenous Protein May be Used to Reverse Metabolic Disorders

A study of obese mice by a Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center research team has found a natural protein to be a powerful regulator in metabolism.

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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

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Raising Children in the Digital Age

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

You Don’t Need an Engineering Degree to Be a Hoya Tech Success

School of Foreign Service Marks 100 Years of Global Service

Q&A with Melissa Tidwell (C’99), VP and General Counsel at Reddit

Law Center Partners with Ward 7 to Build Climate Resilience

Georgetown University Alumni in Congress

A Good Laugh

Canine Campus Celebrity

Endogenous Protein May be Used to Reverse Metabolic Disorders

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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

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