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From Old Bones to New Insights: Teaming up with Georgetown’s Timothy Newfield, ECo Postdoc Jordan Wilson connects ancient skeletons to today’s climate-driven disease risks

As part of the Earth Commons Fellowship Highlight Series, we spoke with ECo Postdoctoral Fellow Jordan Wilson and her faculty mentor Timothy Newfield to explore how…

September 18, 2025

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The Intern Dispatches: Big Ideas and Tiny Moments

Zoe Gutherman (CAS’27), a BS in Environment & Sustainability Student at Georgetown University, reflects on her summer abroad with the Earth Commons Greece. My…

September 15, 2025

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Event Recap: ECo Talks Fall 2025 Kicks Off at the Capitol Campus

The Fall 2025 ECo Talks series launched on Friday, September 5, with a full house at Georgetown’s Capitol Campus and an engaged Zoom audience. The kickoff was a huge success…

September 11, 2025

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Professor Megan Lickley Awarded $4M to Strengthen Global Monitoring of Potent Greenhouse Gases

Dr. Megan Lickley, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s Earth Commons Institute for Environment & Sustainability and the Science, Technology and International(…

August 6, 2025

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The Earth Commons’ Dr. Megan Lickley Awarded $4M Grant to Strengthen Global Monitoring of Potent Greenhouse Gases

July 31, 2025 Dr. Megan Lickley, Assistant Professor at the Earth Commons—Georgetown University’s Institute for Environment & Sustainability—and the School of Foreign…

August 5, 2025

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ECo Awards are supporting big questions and bigger answers, on and off campus

If you have trekked up to Georgetown’s observatory recently and pondered that it now resembles a “celestial dreamscape,” or noticed students picking up excess food from Leo…

July 22, 2025

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Snorkeling Through Science and Self: Two Weeks in Greece 

Saroosh Zahid is a rising junior at Georgetown University-Qatar, pictured above third from left. As I walk down the most recent lane in memory town, I can’t help but smile at…

July 14, 2025

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Space Detectives: Students Use Satellite Data to Address Climate Change

Summer break meant diving into marine research, hiking Greek islands, and using space tech to track climate change for rising Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) juniors Adeena…

June 25, 2025

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Event Recap: Earth Day Festival

On April 22, the Earth Commons and Georgetown Program Board cohosted the Earth Day Festival on the Leavey Esplanade. From 1 to 3 PM, the campus community gathered for an…

May 1, 2025

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Event Recap: Writing Climate Symposium

The 2025 Writing Climate Symposium brought together leading voices from literature, science, and activism to explore how storytelling can shape our understanding of the climate…

May 1, 2025