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6 unusual facts about Georgetown university


Darnall's Chance

Two Carroll sons were prominent members of colonial and early United States society: Daniel Carroll became a politician in the Continental Congress and Maryland Senate, and member of the Constitutional Convention; and John Carroll became the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States, and founder of Georgetown University.

Geoffrey Bruun

After retiring as a professor of history from N.Y.U., he was a visiting professor at Cornell, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, the University of Illinois, and Georgetown University.

Inova Fairfax Hospital

Inova Fairfax Hospital is also a satellite clinical campus for students from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Medicine and hosts residents from universities such as the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and George Washington University.

National Community Church

The theaters are located on K Street walking distance from the well-frequented shops and restaurants along Wisconsin Avenue and M Street and the campuses of Georgetown University and George Washington University.

Norman Paterson School of International Affairs

In 2007, a poll of Canadian academics intended to determine the best professional masters programs in international affairs ranked NPSIA at #2, tied with Georgetown University.

In 2007, a poll of Canadian academics, intended to determine the best professional masters programs in international affairs, ranked NPSIA at No. 2, tied with Georgetown University, and ahead of programs at universities like Harvard and Columbia.


Brentwood Academy

Andrew Bumbalough, Georgetown University Cross Country and Track All-American, Nike/KIMbia Athletics

Caja Navarra

Scholars at some of the world's top universities including Georgetown University, New York University Stern School of Business, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, IESE and the Instituto Pamamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa have studied the bank.

Carl Ben Eielson

After the war, he enrolled at Georgetown Law School (now Georgetown University) in Washington, D.C. Working part-time as a police officer at the Capitol, he met the Alaska Territory's delegate to the Congress, Daniel Sutherland, who persuaded Ben to go to Alaska to teach secondary school.

Chaminade Silverswords

Virginia, which featured Ralph Sampson and Rick Carlisle, was the top-ranked team in NCAA Division I basketball entering the game after posting victories against Georgetown (with Patrick Ewing) and Phi Slama Jama of Houston.

Charles Gary Allison

From 1963 to 1969 he chaired a non-partisan White House youth program under both the Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon administrations, during which time he worked on a master's degree in international relations at Georgetown University.

Cornell Club of New York

Membership in the Cornell Club is restricted to alumni, faculty, and students of the Ivy League institution Cornell University, as well as alumni of a short list of affiliated schools, such as Brown, Colgate, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, Tulane, and Wake Forest.

David Catania

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Catania is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Georgetown University Law Center.

Ex Corde Ecclesiae

Attendees at this American seminar included the University Presidents of Notre Dame, Georgetown, Seton Hall, Boston College, Fordham, St. Louis University, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, the Archbishop of Atlanta and more than a dozen other educators of North American Catholic higher education.

FORA.tv

FORA.tv's content partners include: The Asia Society, Aspen Institute, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Council on Foreign Relations, Duke University, Georgetown University, Heritage Foundation, The Hoover Institution, Transatlantic Institute and the World Affairs Council.

Free South Africa Movement

The movement began when Randall Robinson, Executive Director of TransAfrica, Mary Frances Berry, Commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, D.C. Congressman Walter Fauntroy and Georgetown University law professor Eleanor Holmes Norton met with South African Ambassador at his embassy to highlight human rights abuses in South Africa.

George S. Stuart

Stuart attended Georgetown University and the American University in Washington, D.C. where he studied history, economics, languages and international law while preparing to become a Foreign Service Officer but his academic career was frustrated by dyslexia, a condition not recognized in those days.

Harrison A. Williams

The lead juror confessed that had he been presented with evidence such as that developed by Dr. Roger W. Shuy of Georgetown University's Center for Applied Linguistics, he would not have found Williams to be guilty.

Hussein Ibish

Ibish has accepted a number of invitations for talks, lectures and debates at colleges and universities, including Yale Law School, Harvard Business School, Princeton, MIT, Tufts University, Georgetown University, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), The New School (formerly the New School for Social Research), North Carolina State University, University of California, Irvine and the University of Costa Rica.

IGSTK

Development started in 2003 as a collaboration between the ISIS Center at Georgetown University and Kitware.

James J. Greco

He graduated from Hamden High School in 1976, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Georgetown University in 1980, and a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law, in 1983.

Joaquim Clotet

After his doctorate, he completed studies and research at the Gregorian University of Rome (Italy), the University of London (United Kingdom), Georgetown University (Washington D.C., USA), the University of Ottawa (Canada), Oxford University (United Kingdom) and the University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom).

John J. Garstka

In addition, he has lectured at Harvard University, Georgetown University, the University of California at Irvine, University of Maryland, the Army War College, the Air War College, the Naval War College, and the Naval Postgraduate School.

John S. Monagan

He continued to be active into his nineties as a writer and book reviewer; a month before his death, he spoke at a symposium honoring Anthony Powell's centenary at Georgetown University.

Kairat Kelimbetov

He is a graduate of Georgetown University's, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (Pew Economic Freedom Fellows Program,1999), the Kazakh State Academy of Economics (management, 1996), and Lomonosov Moscow State University (Mathematics, 1993).

Kendall Ciesemier

Kendall Ciesemier is an American youth volunteer from Wheaton, Illinois and a student at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Leopold Engleitner

They gave lectures in Washington, D.C., (at Georgetown University and Library of Congress), New York (at Columbia University), Chicago (at Harold Washington College), Skokie (for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois), Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay area (Stanford University) and Los Angeles (at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust).

Lisa Kubiske

Kubiske graduated from Brandeis University with a BA in anthropology and psychology, and from Georgetown University with a Masters of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS).

Margaret E. Lynn

With her protégé Donn B. Murphy she established summer workshops at Georgetown University to which she brought Army Entertainment Directors from all over the world who met with civilian theater directors, producers and teachers.

Martin Fridson

He has been a guest lecturer at the graduate business schools of Babson College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Fordham University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Rutgers University and the Wharton School of Business, as well as the Amsterdam Institute of Finance.

Maura Connelly

Ambassador Connelly received a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Masters in National Security Studies from the U.S. Naval War College.

Minouche Shafik

In addition to her policy and operational roles, she has held academic appointments at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Economics Department at Georgetown University.

Moez Masoud

Masoud was named “Egypt’s most influential religious figure of the year" in 2008, and was featured in Georgetown University's “The 500 Most Influential Muslims of 2009,” published by the Georgetown Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and later in both the 2010 & 2011 versions, published by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center respectively.

Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

In 2012, al-Yaqoubi was listed in The 500 Most Influential Muslims by Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan.

Murray Waas

Ralph Nurnberger, a former staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and professor at Georgetown University, later concluded in a study for the African Studies Review that the economic sanctions imposed against Amin by the U.S. led to Amin's downfall.Nurnberger wrote that the congressional initiative to impose the sanctions had garnered little attention or support until "Jack Anderson assigned one of his reporters, Murray Waas to follow the issue" and write regularly about it.

Olivia Mellan

She attended Georgetown University's School of Language and Linguistics (also winning a full scholarship there); and earned a Masters in French, minoring in Sociolinguistics, in 1972.

Onward State

Pitted against Onward State were seasoned blogs from UC Berkeley, Vassar, Wesleyan, Columbia, Georgetown, Middlebury, Yale, and an Ivy League conglomerate.

Phil Wellington

Phil Wellington (born September 25, 1972 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a retired U.S. soccer goalkeeper who played collegiately for Georgetown University and professionally in the USISL.

Rick Gilmore

He has written articles on food stabilization, food security, trade liberalization, and venture capitalism, and has lectured at the Agrarian Institute of Russia, Moscow State University, University of Aix-en-Provence, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Harvard University, Georgetown University, and American University.

Robert Litwak

Robert Litwak is vice president for programs and director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Robert Molyneux

Father Robert Molyneux, S.J. (died 1808) was the second and fifth Presidents of Georgetown University.

Roger Cressey

He was until recently the president of the Good Harbor consulting group, and an adjunct Professor of counter-terrorism policy at Georgetown University.

Susan L. Woodward

During her time in Washington DC she taught graduate seminars at Georgetown, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.

Thaika Shuaib

In 2013, Shuaib was listed in The 500 Most Influential Muslims by Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan.

Thomas Ewing Sherman

Tom attended the preparatory department of Georgetown College and graduated with a B.A. degree from that institution in 1874.

Villa Le Balze

In December 1979, the Marquesa Margaret Rockefeller de Larrain, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, gifted the Villa le Balze to Georgetown University.

William Montgomery Watt

Watt held visiting professorships at the University of Toronto, the Collège de France, and Georgetown University, and received the American Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal and won, as its first recipient, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies award for outstanding scholarship.


see also

Deborah Gore Dean

Deborah Gore Dean is a graduate of Georgetown University and the niece of onetime Maryland GOP leader Louise Gore.

Ed McCaffrey

He has two brothers and two sisters: Monica of Georgetown University Women's Basketball, Billy McCaffrey, a former Duke and Vanderbilt college basketball player, Michael and Meghan.

GUSA

Georgetown University Student Association, a student representative organisation at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Healy

Healy Hall, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States

Jack Carroll

Jack the Bulldog (John S. Carroll), official mascot of the Georgetown University Hoyas

Jean-Pierre Lehmann

In 1966 he obtained his bachelor degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and subsequently he did his doctorate at Oxford University (St Antony’s College), where he was from 1967 to 1970.

Jonathan Brown

Jonathan A.C. Brown American Muslim scholar at Georgetown University (born 1977)

Lederman

Marty Lederman, Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center

Marc Howard

Marc Morjé Howard, professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University

McDonough School of Business

The McDonough School of Business is now based in a new building at the Georgetown University campus named after the late Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon and Georgetown parent.

Mezey

Naomi Mezey, legal scholar and currently a Professor of Law at Georgetown University

Mushahid Hussain Syed

He represented Georgetown University at the Student Conference on United States Affairs at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference at Annapolis and the United State Department’s ‘Crossroads’ programme for foreign students.

Patrick Healy

Patrick Francis Healy (1830–1910), African American Jesuit and President of Georgetown University

Review of International Organizations

Its current editors are Axel Dreher (Editor-in-Chief, University of Heidelberg), James Vreeland (Associate Editor, Georgetown University), Roland Vaubel (Associate Editor, University of Mannheim) and Todd Sandler (Associate Editor, University of Texas at Dallas).