Georgetown professor Charles King uses technology to teach a comparative government class to students in Washington, D.C. and Doha, Qatar.
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University headlines
The Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI) recently announced the creation of the new Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and Systems Integration, to support scholarship and discourse on issues relating to juvenile justice reform.
Georgetown University welcomes Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus, who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for revolutionizing how money is lent to impoverished borrowers.
More than 150 Georgetown University undergraduate and law students, faculty and staff members will participate in eleven alternative spring break service programs.
Interview
Associate University Editor Anne Glenzer sat down with disaster relief expert Steve Hansch to learn more about what happens in the aftermath of devastating storms and other emergencies -- here and abroad.
Faculty in the news
Deborah Phillips, professor of psychology, on recent studies investigating the safety of different child care environments as well as the effects of child care on social and educational development:
"We really need to begin to look more carefully at what is going on among the children in child care ... It may be that we're not doing a good job of training teachers on peer relationships, on how you foster cooperation and empathy ... But I think the story here is when we are going to stop wringing our hands and start assuring better child care choices for parents."
