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Spring 2019

Features

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Justice Served

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Raising Children in the Digital Age

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A Good Laugh

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Anger and Anguish

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Canine Campus Celebrity

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Campus News

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Georgetown Researcher Partners With NASA to Detect Alien Life

Zuby Syed (Mā€™22), Callie Takahashi (Mā€™20), Heng Nhoung (Mā€™22), Kimberly Walker, director of diversity and inclusion, and Susan M. Cheng

ā€˜Generation Iā€™ Fosters Whole Selves and Vulnerabilities

For the growing number of Georgetown School of Medicine students who are the first in their families to pursue medicine, navigating the path into and through medical school can be…

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Washingtonian Magazine Honors Epidemiologist for Alleviating Health Disparities in D.C.

Washingtonian magazine named Lucile Adams-Campbell a Washingtonian of the Year. She’s a national leader in minority health and health disparities research.

App Studied at Medical Center Empowers Womenā€™s Fertility Planning

Endogenous Protein May be Used to Reverse Metabolic Disorders

An Innovative Way to Engage Students? What is Jeopardy! Style?

Professor and Former Student Develop ā€˜23andMeā€™ for Mosquitoes

School of Foreign Service Marks 100 Years of Global Service

Law Center Partners with Ward 7 to Build Climate Resilience

Shavini Fernando (Gā€™18) wears a first-level prototype of OxiWear, her invention to alert users with pulmonary hypertension when their oxygen levels drop critically low. Fernando has the condition herself.
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A Life-Saving Device That Could Save the Inventor

In fall 2018, Shavini Fernando (Gā€™18) swept two Georgetown entrepreneurship pitch competitions, won four awards, and earned a total of $40,500 for her invention of OxiWear, a wearable tech device that alerts users when their oxygen levels drop critically low. The first person to benefit from this life-saving device? Fernando herself.

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Alumni News and Profiles

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A Letter from Richard M. Hluchan (Fā€™71), Alumni Association President

Alumni Bring D.C.ā€™s Unique Jazz History Center Stage

With the recently released book DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC, Georgetown alumni and faculty are shining a spotlight on the city’s important role in the genre’s…

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ā€˜If Not Me, Then Who?ā€™

When Dr. Ayaz Virji (C’96, M’00) and his family moved to rural Minnesota, they were the only Muslims in their community. Things went well until the election of Donald Trump. Somewhat reluctantly,…

Providing Health Care In A Social Change Model

You Donā€™t Need an Engineering Degree to Be a Hoya Tech Success

Q&A with Melissa Tidwell (Cā€™99), VP and General Counsel at Reddit

A Deeper Calling: Four Georgetown Alumni Reflect on Their Spiritual Journeys After Becoming Jesuits

Moving Forward and Pushing Boundaries

Olympian Crosses Borders in Life and Sports

Georgetown University Alumni in Congress

Lives Well Livedā€”Spring 2019

Developing Inspired and Effective Interfaith Leaders

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