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New Facilities VP to Begin in January

By Penny Hung December 14, 2012

Robin Morey, superintendent of the Senate office buildings, will be the university’s new vice president for facilities and planning, Chief Operating Officer Chris Augostini announced Thursday. Morey,...

Georgetown Joins edX Platform

By Braden McDonald December 10, 2012

University President John J. DeGioia announced that Georgetown has joined edX, a platform for broadcasting massive open online courses, at an Economic Club of Washington, D.C., event Monday. The...

MLK Initiative to Honor Activist

By Penny Hung November 15, 2012

Planning is underway for the 11th annual Let Freedom Ring Initiative, which will be held this January. Based on the ideals championed in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,”...

$20M Gift Funds New Initiative

By Sarah Patrick November 2, 2012

With the help of a $20 million anonymous donation, the university formally launched the Georgetown Environment Initiative Thursday afternoon. The initiative aims to promote the interdisciplinary study...

Diversity at a Standstill

By The Editorial Board October 19, 2012

The Initiative for Diversity and Inclusiveness was launched in 2009 in response to campus sentiment that there was too much talk and too little action on improving diversity. Three years later, the initiative...

Diversity Initiative Stalled

By Penny Hung October 16, 2012

Three years after University President John J. DeGioia launched his Main Campus Initiative on Diversity and Inclusiveness, several of the project’s main goals have yet to be accomplished. The initiative...

Committee Asks GU to Cut Adidas

By Hiromi Oka October 12, 2012

The Licensing Oversight Committee unanimously recommended that the university terminate its contract with Adidas by Dec. 15 due to the company’s violation of Georgetown’s Code of Conduct for Licensees. According...

Cancer Center Opens Facility in Southeast DC

By Guthrie Angeles October 12, 2012

Georgetown University Medical Center’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center opened its new Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research in Southeast D.C. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday. D.C....

Conference Discusses Vatican II

By Molly DePippo October 12, 2012

Administrators, Jesuits and Vatican II staff discussed the historic council that transformed the Catholic Church at a conference titled “Vatican II After Fifty Years: Dialogue and Catholic Identity”...

University to Restructure External Relations

By Braden McDonald August 31, 2012

Linda Greenan, vice president for external relations and Georgetown’s public face in the 2010 Campus Plan negotiations, will retire at the end of September. Concurrent with Greenan’s departure,...

SCS Leadership Changes Announced

By Sarah Kaplan June 6, 2012

Walter Rankin, the senior associate dean for academic affairs and compliance, will become the new dean of the School of Continuing Studies on July 1. Rankin will replace current Dean Robert Manuel,...

Georgetown Community Partnership Unveiled

By Mariah Byrne June 6, 2012

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, University President John J.DeGioia, Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans and ANC 2EChair Ron Lewis formally announced the creation of the Georgetown Community Partnership Wednesday...

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