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Study Analyzes NFL Diversity

By Cheryl Liu February 19, 2016

A new study published and co-authored by Chris Rider, assistant professor of strategy at the McDonough School of Business, found that racial diversity is drastically lacking among National Football League...

No to Divestment and Meaningless Solutions

By Deep Dheri November 10, 2015

Climate change is a real problem. Most people underestimate the consequences if human contributions are left unaddressed over the coming decades, but divestment is the wrong solution. Advocates typically...

MEYERTHOLEN: Scientific Literacy: Left Out Liberal Art

MEYERTHOLEN: Scientific Literacy: Left Out Liberal Art

By Ed Meyertholen November 3, 2015

A few years ago, the Harvard Gazette published an article called “Way to Delay Huntington’s Disease Found.” These words would be music to the ears of families that endure the hardships of Huntington’s...

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Researchers Daniel Shore of Georgetown University and Chris Warren of Carnegie Mellon University mapped more than 88 million relationships of England’s leading historical figures on an interactive website.

Study Maps 88 Million Historical Relationships

By Lisa Burgoa October 23, 2015

According to legend, Isaac Newton emerged as a colossus in modern physics in 1666 after a legendary bonk to the head by a falling apple triggered his Universal Law of Gravitation. John Milton penned...

GUMC Research Leads to Alzheimer’s Breakthrough

By Patricja Okuniewska September 18, 2015

Georgetown University Medical Center Memory Disorders Program Director Scott Turner worked as the principal investigator in the largest ever nationwide clinical trial of an Alzheimer’s disease drug...

New Med School Tracks Focus on Literature, Population Health

By Emily Tu April 14, 2015

To provide increasingly specialized experiences for its students, the Georgetown University School of Medicine is adding two new tracks focusing on population health and literature to its curriculum in...

Hookup Culture Criticized

By Lucy Prout April 10, 2015

Dr. Donna Freitas (COL ’94) spoke about the current hookup culture and how it shapes the national conversation about sexual assaults on college campuses in an event titled “Blurred Lines: Sexual Assault...

Exchange Evolves in 4th Year

By Andrew Wallender February 27, 2015

The Fourth Annual Walsh Exchange, one of the only undergraduate international relations research conferences in the country, will be held at Georgetown and various locations around D.C. the weekend of...

Provost Supports Research

By Ashwin Puri February 27, 2015

The Office of the Provost announced on Feb. 18 a pilot program that serves to allocate funds to undergraduate students of all four Georgetown schools with the purpose of expanding research efforts through...

Pilot Study Addresses Past Research Wrongs

By Andrew Wallender November 18, 2014

National Center for Cultural Competence Director Tawara Goode conducted a pilot study earlier this year exploring the impact of "Truth and Reconciliation" community forums on overcoming barriers to racial...

A Profitable Solution To Sweatshop Labor

By Julia Hubbell October 24, 2014

For decades, the worldwide apparel industry has been dominated by a world of oppressive factories and management taking advantage of their employees. In an effort to keep factory costs low and company...

Strength in Research After Newtown Tragedy

By Paul D. Roepe April 10, 2014

Much has been written about Newtown, Conn. It can be tempting to try and forget, but a year and a half later, there are chapters to this story that are still in the process of being written and that should...

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