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HOCHBERG: Looking At Refugee Economics

HOCHBERG: Looking At Refugee Economics

By Gracie Hochberg September 25, 2015

Politicians, students and the media have been sparring on how responsible Europe and the United States are for sheltering Middle Eastern refugees. But what if they are ignoring a fundamental question:...

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Louisa Wendorff, most well-known for her cover of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space,” performs on Copley Lawn at the second annual Kickback Music and Arts Festival, hosted by the Students of Georgetown, Inc. Sept. 12.

Kickback Returns to Rain, Small Crowds

By Owen Eagan September 18, 2015

Kickback, a campus festival celebrating both student and professional music and art, returned for its second year Saturday, but faced a low turnout due to poor weather conditions. Students of Georgetown,...

NASA Commons
Students in NASA’s Student Launch Rocketry Competition watch a rocket take off in Tooele County, Utah during the 2013-2014 contest. Georgetown’s new rocketry team hopes to compete in this year’s competition.

Students Launch Rocketry Team

By Lucy Prout September 18, 2015

When Eric DeShields’ (MSB ’18) plans for a Georgetown solar go-kart racing club did not quite pan out, he decided to settle for the next best thing: a rocketry club. The Georgetown Rocketry Team...

COURTESY GEORGETOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
Customers enjoy food outside of Luke’s Lobster at a parklet set up with tables for Park(ing) Day last year. The annual event returns to the district today with four parklets in Georgetown hosted by local businesses.

Georgetown Gains Four Parks for A Day

By Andrew Wallender September 18, 2015

Georgetown businesses are transforming four local parking spots into “parklets” today as part of the internationally celebrated Park(ing) Day. A parklet is a miniature park created out of a parking...

NEXTGENVEST
Students signed up to become members of NextGenVest during New Student Orientation the weekend of Aug. 28. The startup advertised their service outside the front gates of the university on O Street.

NextGenVest Teaches Finances, Budgeting

By Sarah Smith September 11, 2015

As hundreds of freshmen made their way through Georgetown’s front gates for New Student Orientation this year, they were greeted not only by orientation advisors, but also by representatives from...

COURTESY CHARLIE LONG
The university placed a red chair in Healy Circle this past spring to symbolize the seat women should take in technology development.

Georgetown Partners with Sit With Me

By Patricja Okuniewska September 11, 2015

Despite rapid growth in the technology industry, there is only one woman for every three men employed in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics job. The Sit With Me initiative hopes to...

COURTESY ALEXANDER GALICKI 
Roamer has connected more than 2,000 graduate students looking for furnished housing to other graduate students looking to sublet.

Q&A: Startup Connects Grad Students to Apartments

By Maureen Tabet September 11, 2015

Alexander Galicki (LAW ’16) and Kentaro Murase (LAW ’16) joined the start-up game in August 2014 when they created Roamer, an apartment rental app that tailors specifically to graduate students...

COURTESY JAKE DECICCO
Jake DeCicco inspects a bottle of Sunniva Caffe at the company’s production facility in Elkridge, Md. On Monday the product will officially launch in 11 regional Whole Foods stores.

Sunniva Caffe Debuts in Whole Foods

By Andrew Wallender September 4, 2015

Wide receiver Jake DeCicco (MSB ’16) wasted no time as he left football practice on the morning of Aug. 28. As most players headed for the showers and then lunch, DeCicco darted with a teammate to...

MISFIT JUICERY
MISFIT Juicery creates juice from produce destined for the landfill due to aesthetic defects. More than $165 billion in food goes to waste every year in the United States.

Startup Puts a Socially Conscious Spin on Produce

By Andrew Wallender September 4, 2015

Food waste is not a pretty topic by any count. More than $165 billion in food is thrown out every year in the United States alone, accounting for more than 20 percent of the country’s methane emissions....

COURTESY GILLIS BAXTER
Alumni Gillis Baxter and Evan Bloomberg launched their app, Vizo News, this week.

Q&A: Alumni Talk New Startup, Vizo News

By Toby Hung July 24, 2015

Like all other student entrepreneurs at Georgetown, Gillis Baxter and Evan Bloomberg (COL ’13) have high hopes for their startup, Vizo News. A news aggregator app that delivers three brief headlines...

MSB Launches Center for Global Real Estate

By Emily Tu April 29, 2015

University President John J. DeGioia announced last Thursday night that the McDonough School of Business will launch the Steers Center for Global Real Estate, a new initiative dedicated to real estate...

Research Examines Family Economics

By Deirdre Collins April 17, 2015

According to new research conducted by Catherine Tinsley, a professor of management and director of Georgetown’s Women’s in Leadership Initiative at the McDonough School of Business, the majority...

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