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Georgetown Ranks in Bottom Four Colleges in Controversial Free Speech Rankings

Georgetown Ranks in Bottom Four Colleges in Controversial Free Speech Rankings

By Catherine Alaimo October 19, 2023

Georgetown University placed 245 out of 248 schools in the 2024 College Free Speech Rankings by College Pulse and the controversial Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), an organization...

Georgetown Professor Shares Insight on Prison Exonerations, Raises Awareness about Wrongful Convictions

By Catherine Alaimo September 29, 2023

Georgetown government and law professor Marc Howard (L ’12) has worked on several programs related to criminal justice reform since he founded the Georgetown University Prisons and Justice Initiative...

Georgetown MSB Expands Mentorship Program with Women in the Middle East

Georgetown MSB Expands Mentorship Program with Women in the Middle East

By Catherine Alaimo September 15, 2023

Georgetown University McDonough School of Business’s Women Innovators (WIn) Fellowship, a program that enriches the skills of aspiring female entrepreneurs, expanded to include 258 women from the Middle...

Georgetown in Qatar Student Covers Cypriot Tensions for Pulitzer Center Fellowship

By Catherine Alaimo September 14, 2023

Elene Chkhaidze (SFS ’25), a student at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), reported on religious dynamics in the wake of conflict in Cyprus to fulfill her Pulitzer Center Fellowship this summer. The...

Beloved English Professor Honored with Award at Crime Writers’ Conference

Beloved English Professor Honored with Award at Crime Writers’ Conference

By Catherine Alaimo September 1, 2023

Georgetown English professor Maureen Corrigan received the John Seigenthaler Legends Award at the Killer Crime Writers’ Conference in Nashville, Tenn. Aug. 19. The award, which was created to commemorate...

SFS Announces 13 New Faculty Members

SFS Announces 13 New Faculty Members

By Catherine Alaimo August 31, 2023

Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) welcomed 13 new faculty members for the Fall 2023 semester. The professors represent a variety of global disciplines ranging from Jewish...

Father of Parkland Victim Arrested for Disrupting Congressional Hearing on Gun Violence

Father of Parkland Victim Arrested for Disrupting Congressional Hearing on Gun Violence

By Catherine Alaimo March 31, 2023

CW: This article references/discusses gun violence. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources.  U.S. Capitol Police arrested the father of one of the victims of the...

Georgetown University | Students, parents and other members of the university community have had various reactions to the 4.9% increase in tuition for next school year, which university Provost Robert Groves announced in a Feb. 21 email.

Georgetown Raises Tuition Yet Again Amid Community Frustration

By Catherine Alaimo March 3, 2023

Georgetown University announced its decision to increase the annual undergraduate tuition rate by 4.9% for the 2023-2024 academic year, the second increase in the last two years.  In 2022, the...

Georgetown University | After receiving the highest honor for Georgetown faculty, economics professor John Rust gave a lecture on human rationality and artificial intelligence.

Economics Professor Compares Rationality of Humans and AI

By Catherine Alaimo February 24, 2023

John Rust, an economics professor at Georgetown University, spoke about the rational capacities of humanity and artificial intelligence (AI) at a Feb. 21 lecture to members of the university community. In...

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