Georgetown University announced the three inaugural winners of the Magis Prize, which awards $100,000 in research funding and two semesters of leave to associate professors who demonstrate exceptional...
By Shivali Vora, Deputy Science Editor
• September 20, 2024
Christina Marea, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing and a faculty fellow at the Center for Social Justice, advocated for reproductive equity and safe child-rearing environments in a seminar...
By Adhithi Rajesh, Special to The Hoya
• September 20, 2024
A Sept. 17 Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) seminar highlighted research on a revolutionary approach to cancer treatment: utilizing the body’s natural immune system to combat tumor growth...
By Shivali Vora, Deputy Science Editor
• September 13, 2024
While mosquito bites typically don’t cause more damage than an itchy welt, the West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne disease, recently made news after Dr. Anthony Fauci contracted it in mid-August.
The...
By Allie Stevens, Deputy Science Editor
• September 13, 2024
Busboys and Poets, a local restaurant chain that prides itself on events to inspire social change, hosted a Science and Art Cafe event titled “Decoding Longevity: Who Controls Your Lifeline?” on Sept....
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and FRESHFARM, a local nonprofit that connects communities with farmers markets, launched a “Food is Medicine” program in August 2024 to empower families experiencing...
By Allie Stevens, Deputy Science Editor
• September 4, 2024
Georgetown University began a three-year construction project on Healy and Copley Lawn in June 2024 to repair aging utilities and replace existing infrastructure with more environmentally conscious alternatives.
The...
By Sahana Arumani, Senior Science Editor
• September 4, 2024
Thom Leiding, CEO and founder of Labbot, a biotechnology company, conducted a workshop on liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), a phenomenon thought to be the driving force for a myriad of diseases, at...
By Isabel Liu, Deputy Science Editor
• September 4, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern Aug. 14 following the rapid spread of a new virus strain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and...
By Devansh Gandhi, Deputy Science Editor
• September 4, 2024
The Office of Sustainability’s EcoReps program, through which students help inform the Georgetown University community about sustainability practices, has announced plans to collaborate with Residential...
In the United States, measles cases have increased 17-fold in the first quarter of 2024 alone, and epidemiologists are seeing similar patterns all over the world. Parts of England are experiencing their...
By Audrey Twyford, Staff Science Writer
• April 24, 2024
The Georgetown University Global Health Institute invited four reproductive health and justice experts to weigh in on the human rights impacts of abortion bans in the United States at an April 18 online...
