Global Engagement

As part of a CSIS panel Amb. Melanne Verveer, executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security,  examined U.S. and NATO interests in Afghanistan, security conditions on the ground, and the Taliban’s commitment to peace.

New research by post-doctoral fellow Calandra Stanley shows that yellow-billed cuckoos travel thousands of kilometers in short spans of time during seasonal migrations. Her findings reveal previously unknown facts about avian behavior.

Nearly $24 million from the Agnes N. Williams (L’54) estate will endow faculty professorships. A $10 million gift from Timothy (L’77) and Linda O’Neill (N’77) will establish the Center for Transformational Health Law at the O’Neill Institute.

Top sport scholars discussed the social, political, and economic impact of hosting the world’s most prestigious football tournament in a February 8 webinar co-sponsored by the US-Qatar Business Council and Georgetown University in Qatar.

A February 5 essay quotes Georgetown's John Carr and Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., on ways the Catholic Church’s long tradition of public discourse on Catholic social teaching can help unite a divided America.

From Twitter banning a sitting president, to Robinhood halting GameStop trades amidst the guerilla campaign to hike shares, recent events underscore the influence of what Georgetown Law Professor Anupam Chander refers to as the “new gatekeepers.”

The McDonough School of Business is proud to announce the launch of the Steers ESG Solutions Group, established through a $3.2 million gift from Robert (B’75, P’06, P’08, P’10) and Lauren Steers (P’06, P’08, P’10).

With a message about the important role women play in Qatar’s growing economy, Sheikha Alanoud bint Hamad Al-Thani, managing director of business development at the Qatar Financial Centre Authority, was the featured speaker at a GU-Q webinar.

Cristina Sanz, professor of linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown, was awarded the AAUSC Innovation in Language Program Direction Award for Inclusion and Social Justice in fall 2020.

In a Washington Post op-ed, Victor Cha, a Georgetown professor and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, addresses the threat of North Korea to Biden's new administration.

The Translational Health Internship is a study abroad program created by Georgetown and INFANT, a leading respiratory disease research organization headquartered in Buenos Aires.

Georgetown students participating in study abroad programs in Strasbourg and Lyon enroll in unique courses focused on social justice from a French perspective.

Hosted by the University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway, this platform gathers academic public in-person and online events organized in Rome by participating Catholic institutions with the coordination of the Georgetown University Representative…

Ambassadors of the 17 European Union member states in Qatar were recently briefed on the state of Qatar’s economy and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic at a talk by Dr. Alexis Antoniades of Georgetown University in Qatar.

Sanford Ungar, director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University, discusses his experience as a Voice of America (VOA) journalist and VOA's important role in global journalism with the Washington Post.