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Partnership Explores Niger Delta

By Kristen Fedor February 27, 2015

Promoting economic growth and addressing conflict in the Niger Delta in a socially responsible manner will be the focus of a new Georgetown partnership, announced Feb. 6. The partnership pairs the Georgetown...

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Professor of marketing Alan Andreasen was awarded the William L. Wilkie Marketing for a Better World Award for his work finding socially responsible uses for marketing.

Andreasen Reflects on Career

By Toby Hung February 27, 2015

McDonough School of Business professor of marketing Alan Andreasen received the 2015 William L. Wilkie Marketing for a Better World Award from the American Marketing Association Foundation on Feb....

CHISHOLM: Eating Our Future Without Innovation

By Celeste Chisholm February 27, 2015

Agronomics has grown on me. Cultivating this science of soil management and the production of field crops into a sustainable and matured art is often an unrecognized necessity. Conservation of land...

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Managing Director Nirmal Maitra (NHS ’17), left, Executive Director Naman Trivedi (SFS ’16), center, and Operations Director Allison Heymann (SFS ’16) were inaugurated as the new SIPS executive board.

SIPS Fund Welcomes New Leaders

By Sarah Fisher February 20, 2015

The Social Innovation Public Service Fund inaugurated a new executive leadership team at the start of February, aiming to continue its steady expansion despite difficulties in raising awareness. The...

M Street Sees Quick Turnover in Retail

By Charlotte Allen February 20, 2015

The constantly shifting M Street landscape has seen the addition of several national retailers and the closure of established businesses over the past few months. Georgetown Business Improvement District...

McCourt Students Win Policy Challenge With App

By Emily Tu February 20, 2015

A group of five McCourt School of Public Policy graduate students won the McCourt Public Policy Challenge with their proposal AppSent, a mobile-based application designed to address low high-school graduation...

CHISHOLM: Celebrate Our Robotic Future

By Celeste Chisholm February 20, 2015

In Japan, the robotics market continues to expand with rapidity to the surprise, delight and chagrin of onlookers throughout the world. Although our imaginations may have oriented us toward a distant vision...

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Georgetown was the only university recognized as a winner of the Digital Edge 25 award, acknowledging the university for its innovation in technology around campus.

Georgetown Recognized For Digital Innovation

By Sara Kamouni February 13, 2015

Georgetown was the only university among the 25 winners of the Digital Edge 25 award, an honor from IDG Enterprise Media Brands CIO, Computerworld and the CIO Executive Council that recognizes enterprises...

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Christina Conrad (COL ’11) invented the Boobypack, a sports bra with pockets to store valuables. After raising funds for the project through a Kickstarter in 2014, Conrad will present the invention to the investors, or “sharks,” on ABC’s “Shark Tank” tonight at 9 p.m. EST.

Alumna Competes on ‘Shark Tank’

By Kelsey Quackenbush February 13, 2015

Christina “CC” Conrad (COL ’11) will be a contestant on an episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” where she will present her invention, the Boobypack, a sports bra with zipper-enclosed, water-resistant...

Hoyalist Promotes Exchange

By Ashley Miller February 13, 2015

Inspired by the challenge of being unable to get a fair deal on textbooks, two Georgetown sophomores, Ignacio Llado (COL ’17) and Gustavo Martinez (COL ’17), have officially launched Hoyalist, an online...

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Students of Georgetown, Inc. will serve a new brand of coffee with entirely new brewing equipment from Compass Coffee starting today.

Corp Rolls Out New Coffee

By Lucy Prout January 30, 2015

Beginning today, The Corp will debut their new partnership with Compass Coffee, featured in their coffee storefronts Uncommon Grounds, More Uncommon Grounds and The Midnight MUG, as well as their other...

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GUASFCU COO Nick Diment (MSB ’16), left and GUASFCU CEO Kate Ballinger, right, joined the company’s board of directors in January.

GUASFCU Selects New Leadership Team

By Anna Riley January 30, 2015

The Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union’s Board of Directors underwent a transition in leadership positions earlier in January. Eight new members replaced the seven previous...

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