Archive: News

  • Weinstein has the “Midus” touch

    Professor Maxine Weinstein of the Graduate School continues to attract support for her long-term study of aging and health known as Midlife in the US, or MIDUS, with an $8.2m grant from the National

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  • Inventive Georgetown physicist honored

    Professor Kai Liu has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his contributions to the field of nanomagnetism and spintronics. This article was originally

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  • NSF Career Award

    The National Science Foundation will support the research of Nathan Schneider, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, into how we can learn about language and improve natural lang

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  • English professor wins Modern Language Association award

    Associate Professor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan has won the 2021 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for her book The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora. This article

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  • Psychology professor looks inward

    Fathali Moghaddam, Professor of Psychology, has published a disarmingly reflective book on "How Psychologists Failed".  Ali argues that "[f]or too long, psychologists ignored the poor, igno

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  • SFS professor explores a family affair

    Professor Joseph Sassoon, director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in SFS, has, according to the Wall Street Journal, "written a marvelous epitaph to a monumental family, ma

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  • Georgetown innovator reaches final of mask challenge

    A new article in Science Magazine showcases ten finalists in the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, Mask Innovation Challenge, including Kai Liu, Professor of Ph

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  • Shakespeare the thought experimentalist

    Fathali Moghaddam, professor of psychology and recipient of the Provost's 2020 Career Research Achievement Award, bridges the gap between science and literature with a new book that documents the

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  • Computing concrete

    Georgetown computational physics professor Emanuela Del Gado and post-doc Abhay Goyal join colleagues to delve into the ionic structure of amorphous materials in a new article in Science Adva

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  • Georgetown team wins mask innovation award

    A team led by physics Professor Kai Liu is one of ten winners of the Barda-Niosh Mask Innovation Challenge, for their work in developing and adopting light-as-a-feather nano-technology for use in

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