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Hoyas Give Baxa Puts Service Ideals to Work

It's April 28, one of the first spring-like Saturday mornings in New York City this year. Riverside Park, a four-mile-long strip of green that hugs the Hudson River on Manhattan's Upper West Side, is bursting with runners, bikers, and strollers. Read More

Maker Hub Celebrates International Successes in Innovation

Refugees have immediate needs of water, food, medicine, and shelter. But they also need something else to start their lives anew: a credit score. To help migrants and refugees build credit, a cross-disciplinary team of students organized by the Georgetown University Library's Maker Hub—in partnership with many university programs and with the generous support of Molly (G'11) and Steve (F'79) Cashin (Parents'10, '13)—dreamed up a system called Credit/Ability. Read More

The team developing Crane Cam (pictured right) has used the Maker Hub to bring their construction safety product to fruition.

Georgetown Holds Conversations on Legacies of Slavery

In April, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gayle Jessup White—a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and community engagement officer at Monticello—conversed on stage with Melisánde Short-Colomb (C'21), a descendant of Abraham Mahoney and Mary Ellen Queen, who were among the 272 enslaved men, women, and children sold by the Maryland Jesuits in 1838. Short-Colomb, 64, is in her second year at Georgetown and works in the Georgetown Slavery Archive in the Booth Family Center for Special Collections. Read More

Gayle Jessup White, left, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, listens as Melisánde Short-Colomb (C’21) speaks during a panel discussion at the National Museum of African American History and Culture as part of Georgetown’s April Emancipation Day observances. Short-Colomb is a descendant of Abraham Mahoney and Mary Ellen Queen, who were among the 272 enslaved men, women, and children sold by the Maryland Jesuits in 1838.

NHS Professor Catches the Scent of Fresh Discoveries

Every day, Blythe Shepard, assistant professor of human science at the School of Nursing & Health Studies, runs along the C&O Canal in Georgetown to think. She never wears headphones, preferring to listen to wildlife sharing her refuge inside the city and let possibilities for new research wash over her. Read More

Blythe Shepard (center) and her research team, including Ryan Kurtz and Lily Steinberg (C’20), focus on the role of microscopic olfactory receptors in metabolic diseases.

First University-Wide Women’s Forum Inspires and Empowers

Nearly 500 attendees gathered at the InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C., on May 3 and 4 for the first university-wide Women's Forum, sponsored by the Georgetown University Alumni Association and the Georgetown Law Center. The annual event has been held for Law Center alumnae and students since 1992. Read More

Panelists for “Georgetown Update: The Past, Present, and Future” included law professor Jane Aiken, Rosemary Kilkenny (L’87, Parent’06), former law dean Judith Areen, and Ambassador Melanne Verveer (SLL’66, G’69, Parent’94)

A Degree of Difference

Carlos Sera is overcome with emotion as he receives his degree from the McDonough School of Business via a remote live connection. Sera earned his degree 63 years after he began his studies, which were interrupted by the Cuban Revolution Read More

Carlos Manuel Sera with diploma