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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...

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

The Institute for the Study of International Migration at SFS studies a range of complex contemporary issues such as forced migration from environmental and political causes

Oct 2018

SFS Institute Wrestles With New Global Migration Challenges

The Institute for the Study of International Migration at SFS studies a range of complex contemporary issues such as forced migration from environmental and political causes.

Georgetown Magazine

Jane Aiken (L'85, Parent'14), Professor of Law and Gender Equity Task Force Chair

Oct 2018

New Task Force to Focus on Gender Equity at Georgetown

In March, Georgetown President John J. DeGioia announced the creation of a university-wide Gender Equity Task Force to assess how gender equity can be strengthened and encouraged among faculty and...

Georgetown Magazine

Oct 2018

Why Are Arrests for D.C. Girls So High?

Girls make up an increasingly larger portion of DC's Juvenile Justice System

Georgetown Magazine

Club of Los Angeles Tree Planting for Arbor Day 2018

Oct 2018

Hoyas Give Baxa Puts Service Ideals to Work

It’s April 28, one of the first spring-like Saturday mornings in New York City this year. Riverside Park, a four-mile-long strip of green that hugs the Hudson River on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, is...

Georgetown Magazine

Oct 2018

A Degree of Difference

Carlos Sera is overcome with emotion as he receives his degree from the McDonough School of Business via a remote live connection. Sera earned his degree 63 years after he began his studies, which...

Georgetown Magazine

Oct 2018

Rosemary Kilkenny (L’87): Challenged to Do Even More

Rosemary Kilkenny (L’87), Georgetown’s vice president for Diversity, Equity, and Affirmative Action, was honored with Georgetown’s inaugural Dr. Carol J. Lancaster Award this spring.

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Panelists for “Georgetown Update: The Past, Present, and Future” panel

Oct 2018

First University-Wide Women’s Forum Inspires and Empowers

Nearly 500 attendees gathered at the InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C., on May 3 and 4 for the first university-wide Women’s Forum, sponsored by the Georgetown University Alumni Association...

Georgetown Magazine

Oct 2018

Hoya Gateway Works to Strengthen Veterans Resources

Gen. George W. Casey Jr. (F’70) recalls that when he joined the university’s Board of Directors in 2014, Georgetown President John J. DeGioia asked him to focus on what the university is doing—and...

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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

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

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

SFS Institute Wrestles With New Global Migration Challenges

New Task Force to Focus on Gender Equity at Georgetown

Why Are Arrests for D.C. Girls So High?

Hoyas Give Baxa Puts Service Ideals to Work

A Degree of Difference

Rosemary Kilkenny (L’87): Challenged to Do Even More

First University-Wide Women’s Forum Inspires and Empowers

Hoya Gateway Works to Strengthen Veterans Resources

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