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Elizabeth Nalunga and Kaya Henderson on stage at the Black Alumni Summit gala

We, Too, Are Georgetown: Black Alumni Summit Attendees Discuss, Celebrate What It Means to be a Hoya

Meghan Twohey at Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington DC

Alumna Megan Twohey Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story That Helped Spark a Movement

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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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...

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Sep 2018

After Trauma, Hope

In a time when secondhand suffering as a caregiver can lead to vicarious trauma, Hope Ferdowsian, MD, MPH, adjunct associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the School of Medicine, wants...

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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...

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Sep 2018

Technology Catching Up With Sci-Fi

Georgetown invention offers speedy genetic detection of bacterial and viral pathogens.

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Sep 2018

New Program in Catholic Clinical Ethics

An online master’s degree designed to help the next generation of health care providers and administrators understand the ethics and moral theology that guide Catholic health systems will be...

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Sep 2018

Brain Cancer Cache

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found distinct molecular signatures in two brain disorders long thought to be psychological in origin—chronic fatigue syndrome and Gulf...

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Sep 2018

New Tumor Test for Better Bladders

Georgetown researchers have developed a new diagnostic tool for bladder cancer that may reduce unnecessary treatment for patients with non-invasive tumors.

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Sep 2018

Major Goals for Microsurgery

David Habin Song, MD, MBA, is on a mission to make Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health the best academic health system in the country for plastic surgery.

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Sep 2018

Using Big Data to Track HIV

An innovative data-sharing technology developed at Georgetown will be used to improve the National HIV Surveillance System through a $2 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and...

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Sep 2018

Making Sense of Sounds

“We have long tried to make sense of senses, studying how the brain represents our multisensory world,” says the study’s senior investigator, Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD...

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photo of a guitarist performing for hospital patient

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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We, Too, Are Georgetown: Black Alumni Summit Attendees Discuss, Celebrate What It Means to be a Hoya

Alumna Megan Twohey Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story That Helped Spark a Movement

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Comedian Jim Gaffigan Stands Up for First-Generation Students

Simple Ways to Safer Roads

After Trauma, Hope

O'Donnell Named Cohen Chair

Technology Catching Up With Sci-Fi

New Program in Catholic Clinical Ethics

Brain Cancer Cache

New Tumor Test for Better Bladders

Major Goals for Microsurgery

Using Big Data to Track HIV

Making Sense of Sounds

Understanding the Healing Power of Music

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We, Too, Are Georgetown: Black Alumni Summit Attendees Discuss, Celebrate What It Means to be a Hoya

Alumna Megan Twohey Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story That Helped Spark a Movement

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