Archive: Faculty Research
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Study Finds Children鈥檚 Math Learning Improves by Interacting with Intelligent Characters
In an effort to improve education in STEM fields, Georgetown Department of Psychology Professor Sandra Calvert and her colleagues conducted research, published in Child鈥�
November 20, 2019
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Psychology Research Team Identifies Creative Anxiety
A new study by a research team at Georgetown provides the first evidence of a form of anxiety that is specific to thinking creatively and points to ways that this kind of anxiety鈥�
June 11, 2019
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Huang Receives Award to Research MS Treatment
Professor Jeffrey Huang of the Georgetown 海角论坛 Department of Biology has received a major award from the National MS Society to continue research on a potentially鈥�
April 9, 2019
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Biology Professors Coauthor Study on Monarch Migration
A major paper on monarch butterfly migration coauthored by Professors Leslie Ries and Naresh Neupane of the Department of Biology was published this week in.鈥�
March 25, 2019
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Hsu Tackles Question of Happiness in China
Professor Becky Hsu led a multi-institutional research project into happiness in China, which inspired her own book, Happiness in China: Family, Fate, and the Good Death,鈥�
January 29, 2019
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Zeldes' Team Awarded NEH Grant for Coptic Linguistics Project
Professor Amir Zeldes of the Department of Linguistics has received a grant of more than $320,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand the study of Coptic鈥�
November 19, 2018
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Johnson Leads Major Grant to Redefine Extraterrestrial Life Detection
NASA’s Astrobiology Program has awarded a nearly $7 million grant to an effort led by Georgetown Assistant Professor Sarah Stewart Johnson that is explicitly aimed at鈥�
November 2, 2018
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Freericks Awarded Two DOE Grants
The grants are both part of the Department of Energy’s recent $218 million initiative to promote quantum information science, which Secretary of Energy Rick Perry called &鈥�
October 26, 2018
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Government Professors Win Grants, APSA Awards
The Georgetown 海角论坛 Department of Government has had an active early fall, with a number of faculty members winning grants to fund their research and recognition on notable鈥�
October 9, 2018
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Summer Roundup: Biology Professors Land More Than $10 Million in Grants
10 professors in the department have received research grants totaling more than $10 million from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and private鈥�
October 5, 2018