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Georgetown Professor Explores Jewish Identity Through Art in New Exhibit

Georgetown Professor Explores Jewish Identity Through Art in New Exhibit

By Rachel Won May 6, 2021

In the pigment print titled “Okuniewicz,” a suit-clad Clark Kent, Superman’s alter ego, sits above a background of speckled matzo bread. Above Kent’s raised eyebrow and blue-toned hair is typography...

GU272 Descendant Takes the Stage To Share Family History

GU272 Descendant Takes the Stage To Share Family History

By Grace Buono April 22, 2021

In 2017, at the age of 63, Mélisande Short-Colomb began unpacking her belongings into the Copley Hall suite that would become her home for the next two years. Looking out of her dorm room window, she...

Undergraduate Launches Clothing Line for Sustainability, Social Justice

Undergraduate Launches Clothing Line for Sustainability, Social Justice

By Casey Ferrante April 15, 2021

Despite harsh Midwest winters, Phillip Catanzaro (COL ’23) has been sporting surf wear both on and off his surfboard year-round since he was a kid. Growing up in Cleveland, Catanzaro spent much of...

GU Undergraduate Uses Fiction Writing To Reflect on Asian American Family History

GU Undergraduate Uses Fiction Writing To Reflect on Asian American Family History

By Ivy Becker March 25, 2021

Growing up, Amanda Yen (COL ’23) spent the ride to school hunched over her notebook in the back seat of the car, scribbling down stories that filled the pages. Her passion for writing endured, and now...

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Georgetown Undergraduate Turns to Writing, Advocating for Young Black Girls and Police Reform

By Grace Buono March 18, 2021

As a fifth-grade student, Toella Pliakas (SFS ’21) always carried a small denim handbag holding an array of pens, pencils and paper so she could write on the go. The bag was too grown-up for a young...

Graduate Student Studies History of Slavery in the White House Through Fellowship

Graduate Student Studies History of Slavery in the White House Through Fellowship

By Daya Benami Narasimhan March 4, 2021

These days, Tianna Mobley (COL ’20, GRD ’22) spends much of her time combing through the Library of Congress’ digital archival database, scouring primary documents to learn more about the legacy...

Georgetown Professor Launches Newsletter, Spurred By Lockdown Disconnection

Georgetown Professor Launches Newsletter, Spurred By Lockdown Disconnection

By Grace Buono February 25, 2021

Amid the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, Marcia Chatelain, professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University, decided to start subscribing to newsletters, both to support...

Georgetown Faculty Celebrate the First African American Nursing Graduates in Oral History Project

Georgetown Faculty Celebrate the First African American Nursing Graduates in Oral History Project

By Noa Bronicki February 18, 2021

When Brian Floyd, assistant dean of Georgetown University’s School of Nursing and Health Studies, read a book on the history of the NHS, he noticed something was missing: Georgetown’s first African...

Georgetown Undergraduate Starts Program To Support Youth in Chicago

Georgetown Undergraduate Starts Program To Support Youth in Chicago

By Curran Stockton February 11, 2021

LaHannah Giles (COL ’23) was first drawn to community service after interacting with the younger members of her neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago and witnessing the lack of support adults had...

CSJ Assistant Director Leaves Georgetown and Begins New Position at NPR

CSJ Assistant Director Leaves Georgetown and Begins New Position at NPR

By Breandan Gibbons February 4, 2021

When Whitney Maddox (GRD ’11, ’19) was not leading seminars about race and prejudice with new graduate students, hosting events for the Georgetown University Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching...

GU Senior and Disability Advocate Named One of Teen Vogue’s 21 Under 21

GU Senior and Disability Advocate Named One of Teen Vogue’s 21 Under 21

By Daya Benami Narasimhan January 27, 2021

When Anna Landre (SFS ’21) began her first full-time, paid summer internship after her first year at Georgetown University, she was expecting a fun and educational summer experience. Instead, she came...

Georgetown Grad Explores Race, Class, Identity and White Privilege in New Book

Georgetown Grad Explores Race, Class, Identity and White Privilege in New Book

By Sarah Conner December 1, 2020

When Cole Brown (COL ’18) sat down in his sophomore year entrepreneurship class with Georgetown University professor Eric Koester and found out he had to write a 20,000 word manuscript, he immediately...

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