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Georgetown Receives $21M From NIST to Train U.S. STEM Workforce

A group of Georgetown faculty secured up to $21 million in funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide laboratory experience and financial…

May 12, 2023

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Georgetown Wins Green Ribbon School Award for Innovations in Sustainability

The U.S. Department of Education has named Georgetown a 2023 Green Ribbon School Postsecondary Sustainability Awardee, an award that recognizes Georgetown’s innovative efforts…

May 4, 2023

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World-Renowned Author Explores Questions of Colonialism and Climate Crisis in Keynote Lecture

Amitav Ghosh, the world-renowned and award-winning writer, spoke in Gaston Hall as part of the ongoing Voices on the Environment. …

May 3, 2023

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Hoya Harvest Garden Launches at Breaking Ground Festival

Georgetown University’s Earth Commons Institute opened a new garden to provide a resource for students and professors to learn about sustainable. …

April 29, 2023

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SPOTLIGHT: GU Earth Week Celebrates Student Environmentalism

On Friday, the Earth Commons hosted the Breaking Ground Festival to celebrate the launch of a new community garden on the Leavey Center Patio. The festival featured local…

April 26, 2023

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The UN Agreed to a Historic Treaty To Protect Marine Life. Now What?

Marine biologist Rebecca Helm gives her take on what the historic United Nations treaty to protect the high seas means for the fight against climate.…

April 24, 2023

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Hoya Harvest Garden blooms atop Regents

The Hoya Harvest Garden opens on the Regents Hall fourth floor patio this spring, providing food for the local community and a space for students and faculty to learn about…

April 21, 2023

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Georgetown Professor First to Research Chesapeake Bay Dolphins

Janet Mann, a Georgetown professor of biology and psychology, spoke at Georgetown University on March 30 to discuss her 35 years of research on the social networks of bottlenose…

April 13, 2023

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Renowned Author Amitav Ghosh Advocates for Environmental Literature

The lecture was the keynote event in the “Voices on the Environment” series hosted by the Georgetown Earth Commons, and there, Ghosh said that although the story depicted in…

April 13, 2023

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Celebrating Earth Month: A Message from the Office of Sustainability and the Earth Commons

The Office of Sustainability and launching the Earth Commons have a shared mission to cultivate a university culture and practice that becomes the model of positive impact for…

April 3, 2023