Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service (CSJ) has received a one-year, $125,000 Learn and Serve America grant to help expand the university’s popular community-based learning programs.
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Junior guard Chris Wright (Bowie, Md./St. John's College H.S. [D.C.]) scored a career-high 34 points and No. 13 Georgetown used an 11-0 run to close out the first half and a 13-6 run to start the second half en route to an 86-70 win over Harvard in front of 7,613 fans at Verizon Center. The Hoyas improved to 9-1 overall with the win, while Harvard falls to 7-3.
Alonzo Mourning and seven others will take their place among the most accomplished sports figures from the Commonwealth of Virginia when the 39th annual Virginia Sports Hall of Fame induction is held on April 24, 2010 at the Renaissance Portsmouth Hotel & Waterfront Conference Center.
The Georgetown University men's basketball team returns to Verizon Center for the first time in more than two weeks, hosting non-league opponent Harvard at Verizon Center. Tipoff is slated for noon at the Phonebooth and the game will be shown live on the Georgetown Athletics website, www.guhoyas.com. The broadcast will be a free showing of the game between the Hoyas and the Crimson. The game can be heard locally on ESPN 980 AM.