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University Launching New Spring Courses, Developing New Major

University Launching New Spring Courses, Developing New Major

By Ishaan Rai November 8, 2019

Georgetown College is offering new undergraduate course opportunities in American Sign Language and interdisciplinary studies for the Spring 2020 semester as well as developing a new medical humanities...

Study Shows How Brains Visual Processing Can Fail

Study Shows How Brain’s Visual Processing Can Fail

By Elizabeth Brenneman November 1, 2019

A crash in visual processing can occur when the brain is overwhelmed with more information than it can handle and visual stimuli do not make the full journey to and from the front of the brain, according...

Early Alzheimer’s Can Lead To Overspending, Study Shows

Early Alzheimer’s Can Lead To Overspending, Study Shows

By Elizabeth Brenneman November 1, 2019

Early stages of Alzheimer’s disease weaken cognitive abilities to make responsible financial decisions before diagnosis, according to a new study released by the Georgetown University Medical Center...

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GU Medical School Students Organize Support Network for First-Generation Students

By Ashley Zhao October 23, 2018

Georgetown University School of Medicine students have established GUSOM Generation I, an organization for students who identify as first-generation to access a structured network of resources and...

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The GUMC Center on Global Health and ____ has selected Dr. Charles B. Holmes as co-director.

Dr. Charles Holmes Selected to Co-Lead Global Health Center

By Emma Kotfica October 19, 2017

Dr. Charles B. Holmes will serve as co-director of Georgetown’s Center for Global Health and Quality, an internationally focused center for health care research, the Georgetown University Medical...

Lombardi Center Partners to Create Cancer Consortium

By Gaia Mattiace September 1, 2015

The Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center will collaborate with the John Theurer Cancer Center of Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey to form a cancer consortium through a joint clinical research...

Pilot Study Addresses Past Research Wrongs

By Andrew Wallender November 18, 2014

National Center for Cultural Competence Director Tawara Goode conducted a pilot study earlier this year exploring the impact of "Truth and Reconciliation" community forums on overcoming barriers to racial...

Researchers Publish New Findings on Alzheimer’s

By Sarah Smith November 14, 2014

Georgetown researchers published a study questioning the prevalent theory of Alzheimer’s development in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration on Oct. 31. The research, led by investigators at the...

With Med Alums, Blue Angels Again Able to Soar

By Allison Cannella March 25, 2014

After forced spending cuts put the U.S. Navy’s flight demonstration squadron,“The Blue Angels,” on the ground for a year, the Angels have gone airborne once again, with Lieutenant Commander Mark...

Experts Detail Efforts to Save Syrian Children

By Madeleine Thornburn February 21, 2014

Medical experts with firsthand experience treating civilians in Syrian refugee camps discussed the Syrian government’s denial of basic relief aid to those trapped in a country that has been engulfed...

Symposium Sparks Curiosity

By Gene Choi February 14, 2014

Bright-eyed, budding young scientists and researchers got the rare opportunity to present amateur scientific research to a professional audience when Georgetown played host to the Junior Science and Humanities...

Creative Crowdsourcing for GUMC Researchers

By Gene Choi January 24, 2014

In response to federal funding cuts to research across the biomedical field, Georgetown University Medical Center created Partners in Research, a project that helps Georgetown researchers effectively crowdsource...

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