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GU Graduate Receives MacArthur `Genius Grant’

By David Schuler October 5, 2010

Born deaf to parents who are deaf and the product of a bilingual household communicating in both English and American Sign Language, Carol Padden is a 1978 graduate of Georgetown, where she pursued a major...

`Friending’ Faculty: Professors Log On

By Elizabeth Schieffelin October 5, 2010

Generally, Facebook relates to school only when students sit in the back of the classroom, smoothly transitioning from laptop note-taking to an in-depth look at friends' latest updates. But as faculty...

Community Responds to Rutgers Suicide

By Bonnie Duncan October 5, 2010

Many members of the university community have gathered in the wake of the Sept. 22 suicide of a Rutgers University freshman, as part of an effort to prevent instances of anti-LGBTQ bias on the Hilltop. Tyler...

Cupcakes For Cancer

By Fatima Muneer October 5, 2010

Pink lahhafs and tables piled with cookies, cakes iced pink and cupcakes rivaling D.C.'s Georgetown Cupcakes filled the SFS-Qatar campus this week in a fundraising event for breast cancer. Organized...

G.O.P. Victory Could Tighten Grip on D.C.

By Jonathan Gillis October 5, 2010

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has pledged to serve as the legislative roadblock to greater D.C. autonomy, pending a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives this November. As a ranking member...

Top Internet Journalists Talk News

By Lili Dodderidge October 5, 2010

A trio of leaders in web journalism and marketing - including Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post - headlined a panel discussion before a crowd of almost 100 engaged...

New GUSA Senate Sets Goals for Year

By Alice Maglio October 5, 2010

The newly elected senators of Georgetown University Student Association marked their official entrance into student government by setting an agenda and goals for the upcoming year on Sunday afternoon. GUSA's...

Forbes Rates Class Among Best

By Johanna Caldwell October 5, 2010

When government professor Marc Busch read in Forbes that his "Business, Government and the Global Economy" was named one of the year's 10 most innovative business school classes, he said he was surprised...

Research Initiative Offers Fellowship

By Meghan Patzer October 2, 2010

Despite fluctuating participation rates, members’ enthusiasm for the Carroll Fellows Initiative is strong. The program was created in 1997 after a survey from the early ’90s showed that Georgetown...

Catholic Identity Fosters Interfaith Dialogue

By Neil Quinn October 2, 2010

Imam Yahya Hendi, Georgetown's Muslim chaplain, speaks quietly and with care, so that his words carry a certain poignant intensity. But when he speaks about the Georgetown community's reaction to the attacks...

Faculty in Residence Bond With Students

By Johanna Caldwell October 2, 2010

Running into professors outside of class can be awkward, but for some students it happens daily. Nationwide, university faculty members are increasingly opting to live in on-campus residence halls...

University: Rope Found Below Healy Was Not a Noose

By Laura Engshuber October 2, 2010

The knotted rope found hanging in a locked utility area in the sub-basement of Healy Hall earlier this week was not a noose and was likely used for legitimate purposes, according to university spokeswoman...

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