Archive: Research News
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Whiting Awards for writing go to two Georgetown faculty
April 22, 2021 The Whiting Foundation gives just 10 awards each year to emerging writers, and this year two of them have gone to GU faculty, both former Rhodes Scholars – Tope Folarin, adjunct
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GU faculty lead special BMJ issue on migration and health
April 16, 2021 Four Georgetown faculty members were part of an international team of social scientists that collaborated to publish a special issue of the British Medical Journal's BMJ Glo
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The international politics of Covid vaccines
April 16, 2021 SFS professor Abe Newman teamed up with Henry Farrell of SAIS to explore the potential implications of the Covid vaccine rollout for international politics and trade. Will gove
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Emergence of research on Gulf Studies documented by GU-Q faculty
April 16, 2021 Gerd Nonneman, Professor and former Dean of GU-Q, and Dr. James Onley of the Qatar National Library, survey the evolution of the field of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies over
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How Societies Cope with Climate Change
March 29, 2021 New research conducted by a truly interdisciplinary and international team led by Associate Professor Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown's History Department and published in Nature
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Light as a feather – technology to tackle Covid-19
March 25, 2021 Professor Kai Liu of the Georgetown Physics Department, has created a material that could be the basis of the next generation of ultra-effective face masks and air filters. Hav
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Researchers in a spin over Georgetown professor’s discovery
Professor Kai Liu, McDevitt Chair in the Department of Physics, has led an international team in discovering a new mechanism to improve the energy efficiency of nanomagnets, widely used for infor
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GU professor reaches for the sky
A new book by Sarah Stewart Johnson, an associate professor and planetary scientist in Biology and STIA at Georgetown, was featured in the New York Times this week. "The Sirens of Mars: Searching
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Georgetown Main Campus researchers tackle COVID-19
July 23, 2020 Georgetown Professors Anna Johnson and Deborah Phillips of the Department of Psychology are conducting research on Understanding COVID-19 Disruptions to Low-Income Children's Early
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Professor Jennifer Swift receives a new 3-year NSF grant for research on Tuning Hydrate Properties
May 1, 2020 Jennifer Swift, a Professor at the Department of Chemistry received a $500,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research starting in July 2020. This award wi
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