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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

Georgetown Magazine

Jan 2020

What is the Color of High-Tech Police Surveillance?

American police departments are purchasing facial recognition systems that can be misused in violation of civil rights and civil liberties, according to the Center on Privacy...

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Jan 2020

From the Editor—Fall 2019

Georgetown has amazing alumni, and probably the best part of my job as editor of this magazine is the chance to meet you and, when I am really lucky, to have in-depth conversations about the great...

Georgetown Magazine

Jan 2020

How Studying Literature Produces Better Physicians

Poetry by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Novels like The Handmaid’s Tale and Sing, Unburied, Sing . These works are required reading for Georgetown School of Medicine students in the Literature...

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Jan 2020

Is Uber Taking its Drivers For a Ride?

After two years of interviewing 40 Uber drivers in the Washington, DC, area, Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor found that many stressors on Uber drivers keep them...

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Professor Janet Mann looks off the side of Ahoya, the Potomac-Chesapeake Dolphin Project’s boat, to observe a group of dolphins traveling through the Potomac.

Jan 2020

Scientists Mark First Evidence That Dolphins Give Birth in the Potomac

The first evidence that the Potomac River is a breeding area for wild bottlenose dolphins has been gathered by graduate students working with Georgetown biologist and dolphin expert Janet Mann.

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Jan 2020

Colleges Convene to Improve Equity in Higher Education

Teams from 18 colleges and universities convened at Georgetown University in June to tackle the toughest questions in higher education at the first annual in the Academic Experience.

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Jan 2020

MAGIS Immersion Trips Provide Ways to Do 'More'

How can Georgetown help students embody and live out magis and other Jesuit values, such as a faith that does justice, a commitment to academic excellence and cura personalis—care for the whole...

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Jan 2020

Providing a Resource for Short-Term Food Needs

Sometimes students skip a meal. A study group might run late, ending after dining hall hours are over. Their work schedule that day might not sync well with the dining hall schedule.

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Jan 2020

More Than a Rivalry

When football Coach Lou Little arrived on the Hilltop in 1924, the program became a campus obsession.

Georgetown Magazine

Jan 2020

Black Theater Ensemble Tells Stories For 40 Years

While Soyica Colbert (C’01) was not a Black Theater Ensemble member, she was familiar with it through friends who were members. “One of the exciting things about this co-curricular group is that...

Georgetown Magazine

Jan 2020

Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

The walls of Georgetown’s Leavey Center now tell a wonderful visual story of some of the university’s most inspiring alumnae and female faculty, staff and administrators, thanks to the Women on the...

Georgetown Magazine

Jan 2020

Biennial Black Alumni Summit Engages Theme of “People. Passion. Impact.”

The third biennial Black Alumni Summit drew almost 240 Black Hoyas from all classes and schools to reconnect with each other and the university.

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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

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What is the Color of High-Tech Police Surveillance?

From the Editor—Fall 2019

How Studying Literature Produces Better Physicians

Is Uber Taking its Drivers For a Ride?

Scientists Mark First Evidence That Dolphins Give Birth in the Potomac

Colleges Convene to Improve Equity in Higher Education

MAGIS Immersion Trips Provide Ways to Do 'More'

Providing a Resource for Short-Term Food Needs

More Than a Rivalry

Black Theater Ensemble Tells Stories For 40 Years

Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

Biennial Black Alumni Summit Engages Theme of “People. Passion. Impact.”