Katie Couric to Feature Georgetown Work with Local Organization
Posted On Friday, November 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: Dream Award recipient, John Thompson Legacy, Mary Brown, Verizon Center, Wright State Universit
Talk show host Katie Couric will feature on national television next Thursday Georgetown’s support for a local organization that helps African-American boys and young men in need.
The Katie Couric Show episode will highlight the university’s work with its 2013 John Thompson Legacy of a Dream Award recipient, Mary Brown, and ...
Leadership Program for Student-Athletes Breaks New Ground
Posted On Thursday, November 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: Georgetown University, Leadership Academy, Mike Lorenzen, School of Continuing Studies
A program for athletes at Georgetown is one of the first of its kind to teach leadership concepts and skills through an academic framework, according to Mike Lorenzen, an assistant athletics director at the university.
Lorenzen, also an adjunct professor in the School of Continuing Studies, created the Georgetown University Leadership ...
National Debt Threat to Young Americans Focus of Tuesday Night Event
Posted On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: future of young Americans, Generational Equity Tour, Georgetown alumnus, national debt, Nick Troiano, Stanley Druckenmiller
The Can Kicks Back – a non-partisan movement co-founded by a Georgetown alumnus to eliminate the national debt – will host a panel discussion and talk tonight on how the problem is affecting the future of young Americans.
The movement's Generational Equity Tour focuses on educating young Americans about the threat ...
New McCourt School of Public Policy Gets Historic Launch
Posted On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: CEO of McCourt Global, Frank H. McCourt Jr., Georgetown graduates, McCourt School of Public Policy
The university celebrated the formal launch today of the McCourt School of Public Policy (MSPP), a long-held vision that President John J. DeGioia says acknowledges the urgency of solving some of the most complex public policy challenges of our time.
“As we wrestle with the challenges of access to education and ...
Student at McCourt School Helps With Rwandan Coffee Research
Posted On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: Colin Huerter, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Global Knowledge Initiative, Global Knowledge’s collaboration, McCourt School of Public Policy
McCourt School of Public Policy (MSPP) student Colin Huerter (G’14), this year’s recipient of the coveted Whittington Scholarship, wants to improve the way the United States works with developing countries.
“My goal is to help us become more efficient and more effective in how we utilize our resources in helping developing ...
Georgetown Convenes Planning Experts to Explore D.C.’s Future
Posted On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: nine-part series, School of Continuing Studies, Transit Authority, Washington Downtown Business Improvement, Washington Metropolitan
Georgetown is inviting the public to attend a fall lecture series that convenes a group of urban and regional planning experts to talk about the future of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
The nine-part series, which began this month and runs through Dec. 12, features planning experts and leading thinkers from ...
Prestigious Poetry Prize Goes to Professor, Activist Carolyn Forché
Posted On Monday, September 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: American Poets Fellowship, Carolyn Forché, Guggenheim fellowship, Harper Perennial, J.D. McClatchy, Robert Frost
Georgetown poet and human rights activist Carolyn Forché has won this year’s prestigious Academy of American Poets Fellowship, joining the ranks of such acclaimed authors as Robert Frost and e.e. cummings.
“It was moving to me to be chosen by the chancellors of the Academy,” says Forché, who is also a ...
Warren Buffett, Brian Moynihan Speak at Georgetown
Posted On Saturday, September 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: CEO Brian Moynihan, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Gaston Hall, Global Social Enterprise Initiative
Noted businessman, investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett join Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan at Georgetown for a conversation in Gaston Hall.
Buffett, the chair and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and Moynihan participated in the event co-sponsored by the Global Social Enterprise Initiative (GSEI) at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and ...
Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World
Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ARKANSAS, DELAWARE, FEATURED, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, HAWAII, INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH DAKOTA, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, VERMONT, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON DC, WEST VIRGINIA Tags: cardiology, health care facility, joint replacement, low cost, Medical tourism, medical tourists, medical treatments, orthopedic surgery
Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...
Former FBI Director Mueller to be Executive-in-Residence
Posted On Saturday, September 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: Director Mueller, executive-in-residence, FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce, Princeton University, Robert Mueller
Robert Mueller, who stepped down as FBI director on Sept. 4 after 12 years of service, has been appointed the university’s first distinguished executive-in-residence.
“There are four areas that I’m interested in – national security, cyber security, organizations in transition and leadership,” says Director Mueller, who took office seven days before ...
Georgetown Tied for No. 2 Spot in Teach For America Recruits
Posted On Saturday, September 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: Georgetown alumnus Justin Pinn, Georgetown President John J. DeGioia, Miami Dade, Teach For America’s inception, University of Pennslyvania
Georgetown is tied for second place with the University of Pennslyvania among colleges and universities of its size contributing graduating seniors to Teach For America, the organization that works with communities to expand educational opportunities for children in poverty.
Corps members commit to teaching for two years in high-need urban and ...
George Washington University Installs ReadyCam On-site Studio
Posted On Friday, August 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: George Washington University, HD video, Homeland Security, Lloyd Bunting, ReadyCam On-site Studio
NEWTON, MA – Professors at The George Washington University (GW) are now available for live television interviews from their ReadyCam® studio. The on-site studio, which was installed on GW’s campus in Washington, D.C.,last week, allows their faculty to connect with media conveniently and easily, without leaving the University. In fact, ...
School of Continuing Studies Expands ‘Georgetown Downtown’ Presence
Posted On Friday, August 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: Georgetown Downtown, Georgetown University, Law Center, Provost Robert Groves, School of Continuing Studies
Students in the School of Continuing Studies (SCS) will return to their programs for the fall semester in the vibrant and growing Chinatown/Gallery Place neighborhood, further positioning Georgetown as an anchor in downtown Washington, D.C.
The new SCS location at 640 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., builds on the foundation set by Georgetown ...
Current Evidence Enough to Use Probiotics to Protect Premature Babies
Posted On Friday, August 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: Dr. Dan Merenstein, Georgetown University, JAMA Pediatrics, necrotizing enterocolitis
Georgetown’s Dr. Dan Merenstein recently was senior author on an article in the prestigious JAMA Pediatrics suggesting there is ample evidence for the use of probiotics in protecting preterm infants from a devastating and often deadly disease.
Nearly a half-million babies each year are born prematurely in the United States, putting ...
Climate Center’s New Energy Tool Focuses on State-Level Activity
Posted On Thursday, August 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: Georgetown Climate Center, Obama administration, State Energy Analysis Tool, Vicki Arroyo
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The Georgetown Climate Center has launched a new clean energy tool to help states calculate and analyze the potential benefits of new energy policies.
The center’s State Energy Analysis Tool calculates a combination of data and analytic tools to provide a comprehensive state-level overview of the energy sector.
Vicki Arroyo, ...
Law Alumni Serve the District’s Attorney General Office
Posted On Thursday, August 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: civil litigation, Georgetown law education, Joshua Karpoff, Public Safety, Ruff Fellowship, Silver Spring
Nine alumni from Georgetown’s Law Center are working for the D.C. Office of the Attorney General after receiving the highly competitive 2013-2014 Ruff Fellowship.
Each of the fellows has been using their Georgetown law education since January to serve the city by focusing on civil litigation, labor and employment, public safety ...
University Co-Hosts National Catholic Student Affairs Conference
Posted On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: ASACCU, Catholic Colleges and Universities, Catholic Student Affairs Conference, John J. DeGioia
Georgetown will co-host the 14th annual Association for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities (ASACCU) Conference with The Catholic University of America July 23-25.
This is the first time Georgetown is serving as a host for the conference, which brings together student affairs officials from more than 200 Catholic colleges ...
Professor Appointed Chair of D.C. African American Affairs Commission
Posted On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON DC Tags: African-American Community, Anthony Benezet, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism, Maurice Jackson
Georgetown history professor Maurice Jackson became the first chairman of the District of Columbia Commission on African American Affairs during the swearing-in of the commission’s inaugural membership by the city’s mayor July 12.
Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray appointed Jackson, a scholar of 18th- and 19-century history, and 16 other members ...