School of Nursing and Health Studies professor Laura Anderko will soon be working toward a cure forD.C.'s health care problems as part of a new position on the District's Regional Health Equity Council. Anderko was...

Visiting assistant professor of sociology and prominent political analyst Mehrdad Mashayekhi died Wednesday, according to a department email sent to sociology majors, minors and faculty. The university...

Former Minnesota governor and rumored presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty did not mention Sam Potolicchio by name during his remarks last Thursday at the National Press Club. But when Pawlenty stressed...

Georgetown grad Denis McDonough (MSFS '96) was appointed deputy national security adviser to President Obama two weeks ago. He is replacing Thomas Donilon, who was promoted to the position of national...

Law professor Lisa Heinzerling will be returning to Georgetown after two years of serving as the associate administrator for the Office of Policy at the Environmental Protection Agency. In her time at...

While the strength of the human-dolphin connection is evident for many familiar with the sea mammal - not to mention fans of the 1996 movie "Flipper" - a Georgetown professor's studies show that the bond...

Georgetown professor John Esposito was recently elected vice president of the American Academy of Religion, Georgetown announced on Oct. 20. Esposito, a professor of religion and international affairs...

F. William McElroy, professor emeritus in the economics department, died Oct. 13 at age 71 following a battle with lung cancer that fatally weakened his immune system. "He was a wonderful man with a...

When former Georgetown professor Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature on Oct. 7, his one-time colleague Serafina Hager saw the announcement as a long-awaited triumph for the Peruvian...