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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

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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Sep 2018

Simple Ways to Safer Roads

One important health consequence associated with increased mobility is often neglected—even though it factors among the fastest growing threats to global health. As countries become wealthier...

Georgetown Medicine Magazine

Sep 2018

O'Donnell Named Cohen Chair

Anne E. O’Donnell (M’82, R’85, W’87), professor of medicine and chief of the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at MedStar Georgetown University...

Alumni at Work

May 2018

5 Questions With Lea Berman (MA’81)

Former White House social secretary Lea Berman elaborates on some of her key messages about treating people well.

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Apr 2018

Understanding the Healing Power of Music

While neuroscience research continues to uncover the mechanisms of how the brain responds to music, clinicians and patients are experiencing the benefits of creative new applications for music and...

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Apr 2018

CURA Fosters Connections

Connecting and Uniting Residents and Alumni program was founded in 2005 with the goal of connecting Georgetown medical alumni with each other.

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photo of Tracy Councill (standing) welcomes patients and families to pediatric oncology’s nontraditional waiting room.

Apr 2018

Crafting Artful Care

Children and families discover the art of healing through Tracy’s Kids.

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photo of Medical Students singing for a patient.

Apr 2018

In Perfect Harmony

“We don’t really understand why creativity is so healing. But it’s restorative, like sleep, and nobody understands that either.” — Dr. Caroline Wellbery, Arts & Medicine’s faculty advisor.

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Apr 2018

The Creative Spark

Adam Green teamed up with cognitive neurologist and neuroscientist Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD, of Georgetown University Medical Center, seeking interdisciplinary answers.

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Apr 2018

The Mind on Music

Researchers at Georgetown are studying how and why music is so neurologically dominant. “We want to understand how music resides in the brain and the body.”

Georgetown Medicine Magazine

Apr 2018

Neuroscience and the Arts

Researchers study perception of beauty, the neurological dominance of music, and the power of creativity.

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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

More Than a Meal

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Comedian Jim Gaffigan Stands Up for First-Generation Students

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

Simple Ways to Safer Roads

O'Donnell Named Cohen Chair

5 Questions With Lea Berman (MA’81)

Understanding the Healing Power of Music

CURA Fosters Connections

Crafting Artful Care

In Perfect Harmony

The Creative Spark

The Mind on Music

Neuroscience and the Arts

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Women on the Wall: Honoring an Underappreciated Legacy

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