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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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GUMC Study Reports Reversal of Amnesia Caused by Head Injury in Mice

GUMC Study Reports Reversal of Amnesia Caused by Head Injury in Mice

By Andrew Bordea January 24, 2024

On Jan. 16, the Georgetown University Medical Center announced the publication of a study that showed the reversal of amnesia following repetitive head injury in mice. Mark Burns, a professor of neuroscience...

MASON MANDELL/THE HOYA The Georgetown University Student Association voted 20-4 to hold a referendum on adding a $27.20 semesterly fee to students tuition that would go towards a fund to benefit descendants of the the 272 enslaved individuals sold in 1838 to pay off the universitys debts.

GUSA Approves Referendum on Reconciliation Fee for Descendants of GU272

By Will Cassou and Yolanda Spura February 5, 2019

Students are set to vote on the creation of a semesterly fee that would go toward a fund to benefit descendants of the GU272 this April after the Georgetown University Student Association senate approved...

VIEWPOINT: To Memorialize Is to Live

By Jonathan Muhlrad April 24, 2017

Tomorrow on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, I will gather together with other Georgetown University students — as well as millions of Jews across the world — and recite kaddish, the Jewish...

CARNES: What We Carry With Us

CARNES: What We Carry With Us

By Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. April 11, 2017

About four years ago, on a late April afternoon, I found myself racing through Dahlgren Quadrangle when I saw two students sitting on a bench. As I got closer, I recognized them as seniors who I had once...

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Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan (center) was appointed as Georgetown’s first full-time director for Hindu Life in August, when he also became the first ever Hindu priest Chaplain in the United States.

VIEWPOINT: In Remembering Our Ancestors, A Glimmer of Hope

By Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan January 13, 2017

I arrived on the Hilltop last August from the United Kingdom, a country engulfed in a national identity crisis, to another nation gearing up for a political showdown. Yet, instead of preoccupying myself...

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MANDAL: Mechanisms of Memory Shape Our Realities

By Ayan Mandal November 29, 2016

While the English language only has one word for “memory,” the truth is that memory comes in many different forms. Psychologists break memory down into dozens of categories: long-term memory, short-term...

Contextualize Troubling Past

By Eric Langenbacher October 28, 2016

  Adolf Hitler and the evil he epitomizes are ubiquitous once again. I wish I could say that this is the first time since 1945 that this was the case, but unfortunately there have been several other...

EPSTEIN: Heartbreak and the Neuropsychology of Memory

By Zoe Epstein August 22, 2016

Breakups, particularly painful ones, are difficult to forget. After having a broken heart, many people believe they will never get over it. But then, somehow, they eventually start thinking about their...

The Photograph

The Photograph

By Jinwoo Chong June 29, 2015

Last year, my older brother graduated from law school. I don’t remember if he’d secured a job by then. Knowing him, my guess would have to be that he had. Anyway, early on a Friday morning, my parents...

Baseball Field’s Memory Endures

By Beno Picciano April 20, 2012

With finals inching closer by the day, the end of April brings a mass migration of anxious Hoyas to the Rafik B. Hariribuilding of the McDonough School of Business, where spacious study lounges...

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