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New Georgetown Study Will Investigate Nanoplastics on Animal Health and Development

New Georgetown Study Will Investigate Nanoplastics on Animal Health and Development

By Camille Vandeveer March 29, 2023

Environmental exposure to nanoplastics in daily life is very common. Surprisingly, very few studies have attempted to quantify the effect of nanoplastic exposure on animal health and development until...

WELLNESS PERSONALIS | Sleep 101: The Ultimate Guide to Catching Some Z’s

WELLNESS PERSONALIS | Sleep 101: The Ultimate Guide to Catching Some Z’s

By Sophia Williams January 18, 2023

Welcome back to campus, Hoyas! For this installment of Wellness Personalis, I’m exploring sleep: what it is, how to customize it to your lifestyle, and its impact on wellness. When I think about...

Georgetown Medical Students Lead Congressional Training on Intervening in Opioid Overdoses

Georgetown Medical Students Lead Congressional Training on Intervening in Opioid Overdoses

By Nina Raj October 7, 2022

Georgetown University School of Medicine students led a training for congressional staffers on Capitol Hill about the signs of opioid overdoses and ways to safely intervene through the Hoya Drug Overdose...

JONES: Reform Meal Plan Committee

JONES: Reform Meal Plan Committee

By Savannah Jones September 30, 2022

Georgetown created its controversial mandatory meal plan policy, covered by The Hoya last year, to “support and promote a healthy living and learning community where all students thrive,” according...

Author Discusses Role of Black Health Activism in Disability Politics

Author Discusses Role of Black Health Activism in Disability Politics

By Samuel Yoo March 4, 2022

Black health activism can be inclusive of disability politics, Sami Schalk, professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said at a March 2 virtual event. The event,...

KANG: Prioritize Disability Studies in Medical Education

KANG: Prioritize Disability Studies in Medical Education

By Esther Kang December 4, 2020

Students at Georgetown University hoping to closely read issues of health and medicine under a humanities discipline now have the opportunity to take courses from disability studies or the medical humanities....

Facilities Negligence Endangers Students

By Harrison Hurt February 22, 2019

When students from top-floor apartments in Alumni Square were relocated to the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center last week, administrators assured them that they were acting with an abundance...

KIKI SCHMALFUSS/THE HOYA | In response to a steep rise in mold reported in dormitories, Georgetown conducted cleanings of approximately 920 bathroom.

After Mold Reports Double, GU Conducts Deep Cleaning Over Break

By Myroslav January 18, 2019

The Office of Planning and Facilities Management is responding to a significant increase in student concerns about mold by cleaning dorms with high rates of moisture-related problems, as universities nationwide...

KIM: Through Meditation, A Path to Students' Mental Health

KIM: Through Meditation, A Path to Students’ Mental Health

By Heerak Kim November 7, 2018

The mental health of college students can be negatively affected by the stress of exams, papers and dynamic socio-environmental factors, such as living away from home for the first time and making new...

KIKI SCHMALFUSS  Georgetown University’s Office of Planning and Facilities Management has responded to 361 mold-related work requests since August 2018, with students reporting unsafe living conditions and health concerns. The number of work requests related to mold more than doubled from August through October this semester compared to the same time period last year.

Students Raise Concern Over Mold in Dorms

By Myroslav October 19, 2018

Georgetown University students are reporting illness and repeated delays in response by the Office of Planning and Facilities Management to requests for mold removal. In the period from August through...

EDITORIAL: Follow Through on Tobacco-Free

EDITORIAL: Follow Through on Tobacco-Free

By Editorial Board October 12, 2018

Georgetown University must follow through on promises it makes — especially when those promises are related to the health of its students and university community at large. Over the last two years,...

The Five Stages of Being Sick at Georgetown

The Five Stages of Being Sick at Georgetown

By Abigail Weintz and Abigail Weintz October 6, 2018

If you haven’t spent these past weeks drowning in used tissues and Advil, this Hoya desperately wants to know your secret.  Yes! You heard that barely concealed coughing fit from the back of your crowded...

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