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New MAGIS Society Members Named, Alongside Faculty Honors and Awards
The MAGIS Society of Master Teachers welcomed its newest inductees, one from clinical science and one from preclinical science, at the annual ceremony on May 14, one of the first of graduation weekend ceremonies occurring campus-wide.
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Military Medical Students Move to New Theatre of Operations
Seven newly minted physicians received promotions during a ceremony May 16, an annual tradition at Georgetown University School of Medicine for students who received a medical school education through the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP).
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Eighth Graders Have Science on the Brain at GUMC
With the help of Bill Rebeck, PhD, and several neuroscience PhD students, visiting middle school students learned about the human brain in the most authentic way possible — by inspecting one up close.
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Medical School Graduates “Coming of Age in a Transformed System”
The 93 women and 93 men comprising the graduating class of Georgetown University School of Medicine assembled at Washington’s National Theater on Sunday morning, May 17, to receive their medical degrees.
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BGE Graduates Receive Diplomas, Marking Thousands of Hours of Work
Collectively, it took the 250 students in the Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) master’s program about 25,000 hours of work to complete their graduate degrees. They received their diplomas on May 16.
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Georgetown Lombardi is Top Fundraising Team at Avon Walk for Second Year
This past weekend Georgetown Lombardi once again distinguished itself as the lead fundraising team in the Washington region at Avon 39 The Walk to End Breast Cancer, raising $237,000.
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Georgetown University Announces Commencement Speakers
A global mental health expert, the CEO of a Catholic health care delivery system and a devoted “malaria fighter” have been tapped to deliver commencement addresses for The School of Medicine, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Nursing & Health Studies.
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GUMC Hosts “Gray Matters” Symposium on Ethics in Neuroscience
Stephen Hauser, co-author of a report by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, joined a half-day symposium on neuroethics hosted by the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics.
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Georgetown’s Elissa L. Newport Awarded 2015 Franklin Institute Award
Recognizing her contributions to understanding the nature of human language, The Franklin Institute awarded Elissa L. Newport, PhD, with one of its 2015 Franklin Institute Awards. The Benjamin Franklin Medal was presented to Newport at the institute’s awards ceremony April 23 in Philadelphia.
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Georgetown is One of Six Institutions in New DC Center for AIDS Research
An interdisciplinary, city-wide consortium of institutions, including Georgetown University Medical Center, has received a significant National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to establish the District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR).
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