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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...

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International Alumni Weekend 2018 Mexico City

Nov 2018

Mexico City Welcomes Hundreds of Hoyas for Georgetown’s 2018 International Alumni Weekend

This year’s International Alumni Weekend, held in October in Mexico City, connected more than 250 Hoyas from nine schools and 17 countries.

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.

Georgetown Magazine

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

Oct 2018

Pursuing the Dream—The Legacy Continues

Georgetown Community Scholars Program Marks its 50th Anniversary. Georgetown created the CSP in 1968 to provide financial and academic support to local black students wanting to attend the university.

Georgetown Magazine

Oct 2018

NHS Professor Catches the Scent of Fresh Discoveries

Every day, Blythe Shepard, assistant professor of human science at the School of Nursing...

Georgetown Magazine

Tampon Tribe, started by Giana Korth (B’10), won the $7,000 prize at the Alumni Pitch Competition during John Carroll Weekend 2018.

Oct 2018

Highlighting Hoyapreneurs

The Georgetown Entrepreneurship Alliance (GEA) and the Alumni Association sponsored the second annual Alumni Pitch Competition this spring, a “Shark-Tank”–style event held during John Carroll Weekend...

Georgetown Magazine

Gayle Jessup White, left, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, listens as Melisánde Short-Colomb (C’21) speaks during a panel discussion at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Oct 2018

Georgetown Holds Conversations on Legacies of Slavery

In April, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gayle Jessup White—a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and community engagement officer at Monticello—conversed on stage with...

Georgetown Magazine

Oct 2018

Remembering a Jesuit Spiritual Master

On May 15, the Georgetown community gathered for a memorial Mass to remember and celebrate Rev. Howard Gray, S.J., a beloved Jesuit who had passed away the previous week at age 87.

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

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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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

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

Comedian Jim Gaffigan Stands Up for First-Generation Students

Mexico City Welcomes Hundreds of Hoyas for Georgetown’s 2018 International Alumni Weekend

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

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

Pursuing the Dream—The Legacy Continues

NHS Professor Catches the Scent of Fresh Discoveries

Highlighting Hoyapreneurs

Georgetown Holds Conversations on Legacies of Slavery

Remembering a Jesuit Spiritual Master

Maker Hub Celebrates International Successes in Innovation

Pope Francis, the Pope of Dialogue

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