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Department Highlight 鈥� Mathematics & Statistics Professor Kimberly Sellers Creates Varied Research Opportunities for Students

If the movie Hidden Figures taught us anything, it is that there are often forces in the background working to make anything possible. Though the study of math and statistics is鈥�

January 27, 2020

Sally Matson (C鈥�20), a Georgetown senior who wants to use machine learning to combat climate change, is one of two Georgetown students named a 2020 Marshall Scholarship鈥�

December 9, 2019

Georgetown Professor Discovers Key Findings to Stop Malarial Drug Resistance

The malarial disease infects millions of people every year. Until recently, drugs like chloroquine (CQ) and piperaquine (PPQ) have been effective against the parasite that causes鈥�

December 4, 2019

Justinianic Plague Not a Landmark Pandemic?

Until recently, the Justinianic Plague was thought to have killed up to half of the population of the Mediterranean between 541 and 750 CE. Departments of Biology and History鈥�

December 2, 2019

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

Student Designs Better Way to Study Zebrafish

Alexander Brown (C鈥�20) created a new product to help him research the brains of zebra fish. Due to the success of its design, further research on the neurobiology of zebra fish鈥�

November 18, 2019

Alison Mackey, Department of Linguistics, John McNeill, Department of History, and Cristina Sanz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese joined Italo Mocchetti, Georgetown鈥�

November 5, 2019

Georgetown Student Worked to End Poverty in Mabule, Botswana

Mayesha Awal (C鈥�20) traveled to Botswana as part of the Davis Fellows Program during the summer of 2019. Now that she is back, Awal is more motivated than ever to continue鈥�

November 5, 2019

The research training workshop focused on multilingual practices and social justice and examined the contributions of different approaches to the analysis of multilingualism鈥�

October 30, 2019

Soyica Colbert Appointed Vice Dean

Soyica Colbert (C鈥�01) has been appointed Vice Dean. Her appointment will start in January.鈥�

October 11, 2019