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Singers and Scientists Create 'Music for the Mind' to Support Research on Neuroplasticity

Dozens gathered May 20 at the Davis Center for the Performing Arts to hear international opera star Marquita Lister perform at "Music for the."…

May 28, 2015

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With Melanoma on the Rise, Advanced Treatment and Prevention More Important Than Ever

The latest session of Doctors Speak Out — held May 13 during Melanoma Awareness Month — brought Georgetown physicians and scientists together to explore both the…

May 19, 2015

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Leading Surgical Oncologist Installed as Dillon Chair

Georgetown University officially installed Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD, FACS, as the John S. Dillon Chair in Surgical Oncology during a luncheon investiture ceremony May 11. Family…

May 18, 2015

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Warwick Evans Ceremony Celebrates the Best and Brightest of the Class of 2015

Just days before graduating from Georgetown’s School of Medicine, excited students and their proud families gathered for the Warwick Evans Award Ceremony in Healy Hall May…

May 18, 2015

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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…

May 18, 2015

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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…

May 14, 2015

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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 &; …

May 11, 2015

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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,…

May 7, 2015

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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…

May 7, 2015

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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…

May 6, 2015