Faculty Research

The 海角论坛 of Arts & Sciences is home to some of the world’s foremost academics producing research聽that not聽only shapes their fields but impacts the wider world.

In the classroom, our faculty provide engaging lectures and discussions, while outside they produce research that informs the spheres of policy, science and the arts. Read more about some of the most recent research produced by our world-class faculty.

Faculty Research Stories

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Faculty in the Media

Place your phone out of arm鈥檚 reach, so you鈥檇 have to leave your bed to get it, said Kostadin Kushlev, an associate professor of psychology at Georgetown who runs the Happy Tech Lab.

June 11, 2026

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Medical Humanities Director Lakshmi Krishnan Named a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Krishnan will spend the upcoming academic year completing her book, The Doctor and the Detective, about how modern medical diagnosis was forged as much through the literary imagination 鈥� particularly detective fiction 鈥� as through science.

June 1, 2026

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Faculty in the Media

For the past eight years, Georgetown University neuroscientist Adam Green has been leading a national research team tracking the range of novel ideas that college-bound high school students present in their application essays, before and after the introduction of ChatGPT.

May 27, 2026