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Georgetown’s New Partnership Works To Advance the Well-Being of Changemakers
Beginning this year, the think tank will address ecological belonging, partnering with the Earth Commons, Georgetown’s Institute for Environment & Sustainability, to explore…
April 21, 2022
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Dolphins’ playful social habits form bonds, but spread virus
While close contact is essential to dolphin social bonds, sharing space and air can also quickly spread disease. Georgetown's Janet Mann and other scientists are trying to…
April 7, 2022
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Officials Captured And Euthanized The Capitol Hill Fox, Then Found Her Kits
“Foxes have been in the D.C. ecosystem for quite some time,” says Pete Marra, the director of Georgetown’s Institute for Environment and Sustainability, and a professor of…
April 6, 2022
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A Bird Researcher and a Business Alumna Innovate Environmental Solutions — and Find Hope
Georgetown’s value of “Care for Our Common Home” is infused in our research, classrooms and service. As part of our Spirit of Georgetown storytelling series, we spotlight a…
April 6, 2022
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Professors Kai Liu and Gen Yin receive grants for sustainable magnet research
Profs. Kai Liu and Gen Yin have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation on magnetic recording media studies using a high entropy route to achieve novel magnetic…
April 5, 2022
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A novel model to accurately predict continental-scale timing of forest green-up
The yearly cycles in vegetation greenness are among the most important drivers of ecosystem processes. Predictive models for the timing of vegetation greenup and senescence are…
April 2, 2022
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COMMUNITY CORNER: What is an “Earth Commons”? We Asked the Director.
On this episode of “Community Corner,” multimedia staffer Amna Shamim (COL ’25) sat down with Dr. Peter Marra, the director of the new Georgetown University Earth Commons,…
March 4, 2022
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James Malloy Won 2022 AAAS Student E-Poster Award
Graduate student James Malloy was selected as the Graduate First Place Winner of the 2022 AAAS Student E-Poster Competition in the Physical Sciences, for his presentation of …
March 2, 2022
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Georgetown Launches Institute for Environmental Stewardship
Georgetown University announced Feb. 15 the launch of the Earth Commons Institute, which focuses on strengthening the university’s engagement with the. …
February 25, 2022
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Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers
These results provide a new line of genetic evidence in support of hypotheses that have emerged from archaeological analyses but remain contested, suggesting increasing…
February 23, 2022