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MSB Event: Investment Manager Talks Entrepreneurship, Passion

By Caleigh Keating January 19, 2024

Brian Higgins, the co-founder of King Street Capital, a global investment management company, discussed the intersection of entrepreneurship and finance and shared lessons learned throughout his career...

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Georgetown Hosts Dialogue to Promote Investment in Low-Income Families

By Michael Scime January 19, 2024

Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life hosted an online dialogue exploring how members of the Catholic faith can increase their efforts to help people experiencing...

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Let Freedom Ring Celebration Honors MLK’s Legacy

By Caleigh Keating January 19, 2024

Reginald L. Douglas (COL ’09), artistic director at Mosaic Theater Company in D.C., received the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award, given to a local figure exemplifying Thompson’s and Dr....

JHU Professor Discusses U.S.-China Rivalry, Shifting Economic Forces and Corporate Interests

JHU Professor Discusses U.S.-China Rivalry, Shifting Economic Forces and Corporate Interests

By Aamir Jamil and Neha Jampala January 19, 2024

Professor Ho-fung Hung of Johns Hopkins University delved into the intricacies of the U.S.-China rivalry in a recent online seminar hosted by Georgetown University.  Hung, an acclaimed author...

Members of Georgetown Community Attend National March for Gaza

Members of Georgetown Community Attend National March for Gaza

By Aamir Jamil January 19, 2024

Several Georgetown University students and faculty members joined the National March for Gaza in Freedom Plaza on Jan. 13, gathering alongside thousands of protestors calling for a permanent ceasefire...

Jesuit Prison Education Network, PJI Discuss Humanity Through Education

Jesuit Prison Education Network, PJI Discuss Humanity Through Education

By Aamir Jamil January 19, 2024

Two experts on prison education discussed the injustices of incarceration in the United States and the importance of education at a Jan. 16 presentation.  Fr. Thomas Curran, S.J., the founder...

Georgetown SCS Hosts Women Journalists in Sportswriting Talk

Georgetown SCS Hosts Women Journalists in Sportswriting Talk

By Maren Fagan January 18, 2024

The Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies (SCS) hosted a talk with four women journalists in the field of sportswriting Jan. 17.  Bobby Goldwater, a faculty member in Georgetown’s...

THE POLICY PROGNOSIS | Nonprofit Hospitals are Deceivingly Lucrative

THE POLICY PROGNOSIS | Nonprofit Hospitals are Deceivingly Lucrative

By Shiva Ranganathan January 17, 2024

The term “nonprofit” has lost its meaning as money flows into health systems with little to no increase in charitable care. Nonprofit health systems are hospitals that use their proceeds toward...

Georgetown Lombardi Survivorship Research Initiative Hosts Health Equity in Cancer Care Seminar

Georgetown Lombardi Survivorship Research Initiative Hosts Health Equity in Cancer Care Seminar

By Taylor Young January 17, 2024

A professor and cancer expert presented a talk on equity in cancer treatment at Georgetown University on Jan. 12. The Georgetown Survivorship Research Initiative hosted Dr. Cardinale Smith, Chief Medical...

GUMC Professor Receives Cognitive Neuroscience Award

GUMC Professor Receives Cognitive Neuroscience Award

By Allie Stevens January 17, 2024

Ella Striem-Amit, an assistant professor of neuroscience at the Georgetown University Medical Center received the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CSN) earlier this month.  This...

Pharmacology Lecture Highlights Opioid Use Research

Pharmacology Lecture Highlights Opioid Use Research

By Sahana Arumani January 17, 2024

Julie Blendy, professor of pharmacology at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, presented her research on the molecular and genetic mechanisms behind opioid use disorders in the...

The American Red Cross declared a nationwide blood shortage on Jan. 7, leading local hospital systems to call for increased donations in the face of critically low blood supplies.

SPOTLIGHT: DC Area Faces Emergency Blood Shortage

By Camille Vandeveer January 17, 2024

The American Red Cross, headquartered in Washington, D.C., declared a nationwide emergency blood shortage on Jan. 7, urging all eligible people to donate. In the D.C. area, the nationwide shortage...

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