For the first time on record, global warming has surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius in one year, pushing Earth’s life to its adaptive limits. From raging wildfires to rising seas, what was once on the distant...

The Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice (MHHJ), a partnership between universities to foster learning, research and engagement at the intersection of humanities and healthcare,...

Three speakers analyzed the Community of Sant’Egidio, a Rome-based Catholic organization, and its approach to battling acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Africa at a March 25 event. Georgetown...

On March 26, several student-founded health-related startups pitched their ideas during the inaugural Innovation in Health Care Challenge, created by the Georgetown University Entrepreneurship program...

The Earth Commons, Georgetown University’s institute for environment and sustainability, and the Film and Media Studies Program jointly presented the 2023 documentary “Impossible Town,” a film about...

Cal Newport, an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and a New York Times bestselling author, released his new book “Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without...

A nonpartisan non-profit organization busted myths and answered questions about Medicare, a federal health insurance program for disabled people and those aged 65 or older March 18. The event was hosted...

A Washington, D.C. comedy club marked Pi Day with a night of science-themed comedy March 14, featuring comedians from the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area and New York.  At the DC Comedy Loft near Dupont...

The Global Wellness Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting preventative health and wellness education, defines wellness as the “active pursuit of activities, choices and lifestyles...

To recognize the fourth anniversary of the date that the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, Georgetown University’s School of Nursing, School of Health and School of...

“It’s not a disease; it’s illiteracy,” the doctor I was working with said after I asked him for help with a patient’s medications.  I was stunned by this diagnosis.  I had just finished...

Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Survivorship Research Initiative hosted a cancer researcher for a Mar. 8 seminar about genetically predicting future heart and metabolic diseases...