The Jess and Mildred Fisher Center for Familial Cancer Research recently awarded two $20,000 pilot grants for research on cancer to Georgetown University Medical Center professors Peter Shields and Mitchell...

Statistics show that business in the Georgetown area is down, with many stores closing and others turning significantly less profit. But while Georgetown is not immune to the recession, owners and retailers...

As students in an Intercultual Center lecture room listened to professor Carol Dover examine the Christian framework of "Laüstic," a medieval narrative poem by the Breton poet Marie de France, many eyes...

Students in Study of the Arab World or Theorizing Culture and Politics this semester will go where few professors have allowed them to go before. Since the rise of the online, community-based encyclopedia...

With its selection as the only testing site in D.C. for Toyota's first-generation Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles, the university will now offer faculty members a spin in one of the two eco-friendly cars. The...

In Newsweek Magazine's newly released set of college rankings, Georgetown placed in the top 25 in four categories, under both conventional and unorthodox criteria. In the rankings, redesigned this...

History professors and scholars from the university and King's College London convened in Copley Formal Lounge for a two-day, first-of-its-kind Global History forum, "Empires and Globalizations in the...

When students think of Georgetown alumni, they often focus on the Bill Clintons and the Bradley Coopers. But the 1634 Society, a new student group descended from the university's Office of Advancement...

Honored with the largest donation in university history, the Medical Center received $87 million in research funding this June. The donation, which surpassed the previous largest gift of $75 million,...

Four students were victims of bias-related incidents in New South Hall on Sept. 6 and 11, and a similar incident occurred in Darnall Hall sometime between Sept. 11 and 13, according to the Department of...

On Tuesday, Rose Gottemoeller (I '75) and Richard Burt, respected scholars and policymakers in nuclear disarmament, discussed the merits of the new Strategic Arms Reduction treaty, which limits the number...

After five years as dean of the McDonough School of Business, George Daly will leave the post at the end of this academic year. "I didn't want to die in office," Daly joked in an interview with THE...