Graduate Language Scholarships
Byline: Graduate Language Scholarships
Effective Fall 2010 the Graduate School will provide tuition scholarships to graduate students in Main Campus programs who need to develop language skills for their research or to meet proficiency requirements.
Please see the following page to access the Language Scholarship Policy and related procedures: http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/language_scholarships.cfm
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Graduate School Commencement Ceremony
Byline: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 2010 Commencement Ceremony will take place on Friday, May 21, 2010. Details for Students, Faculty/Staff, and Family/Visitors can be found at: http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/commencement.cfm
Note: A live webcast of the Commencement exercises will be available at: http://commencement2010.georgetown.edu/commencement-ceremony-webcasts/
Please note that if a ceremony is moved to its pre-designated rain site, the webcast may be unavailable.
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Graduate Bulletin 2009-10 Available
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
2009-10 Graduate Bulletin
Click on the link above to view, print or download a copy of the newly revised 2009-10 Graduate Bulletin.
Please note: This PDF document has been posted to the Graduate School website incorporating revised and approved academic rules and regulations for 2009-10. Previously published (2008-09 and prior) Graduate Bulletin rules and regulation are superceded by this document. Posted 9/09/2009; Revised 4/26/2009
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Graduate Student Guide Now Available
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Dear Georgetown Graduate Student,
To our new Georgetown graduate students: Welcome to the Hilltop! For those of you returning: Welcome back!
We are enthused that you are pursuing your graduate education at Georgetown, and want to make the university a supportive and welcoming home for you. As you pursue your academic goals and delve more deeply into your field of study, you will be immersed in the life of an academic department. We also want you to become a part of the larger Georgetown University community, and to make the most of your time here. To that end, we have created a Graduate Student Guide, which can be accessed at:
http://grad.georgetown.edu/image_pool/File/GradStudentGuide-F2009-10.pdf
This Graduate Student Guide is designed to provide you with some basic information about services and programs available to you, and to help you in navigating life at Georgetown. Please feel free to contact any of the offices listed for advice and answers to your questions. You have our very best wishes as you continue pursuing your educational goals. We welcome any feedback on the Guide. Please send those to graddean@georgetown.edu.
Hoya Saxa,
Todd A. Olson, Ph.D., Vice President for Student Affairs
Timothy A. Barbari, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School
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Graduate School Welcome Convocation, Info Fair
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Graduate School Convocation, Orientation Program, and Information Fair
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Georgetown Giving - Support Graduate Education
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Graduate education at Georgetown reflects the Jesuit principle that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding should be combined with a responsibility to contribute to the common good. Graduate students at Georgetown receive world-class training to meet their specific long-term intellectual and career goals.
Georgetown Giving website: http://advancement.georgetown.edu/giving/gsas/index.html
Graduate education at Georgetown reflects the Jesuit principle that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding should be combined with a responsibility to contribute to the common good. Graduate students in at Georgetown receive world-class training to meet their specific long-term intellectual and career goals.
Please make your gift today and your support will help enhance all aspects of the graduate program, including fellowships, student organizations, journals, and information resources. You may futher specify the designation of your gift on the donation form.
Support graduate education at Georgetown at the McDonough School of Business, School of Foreign Service, the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, the Medical Center's Biomedical Graduate Research Organization, and the Main Campus.
If you are interested in contributing towards a named scholarship, endowment, capital project, etc., there are a variety of giving opportunities available. Please call or email the contact information provided and speak with a development officer. These officers will work with you to match your unique interests with university needs.
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD)
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the launch of our electronic thesis & dissertations (ETD) program. Effective with the 2008-2009 academic year, all theses and dissertations must be submitted to the Graduate School electronically. Read more about our ETD program at: ETD—Why? (pdf) and ETD—How? (pdf)
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Recent Awards Made to Doctoral Candidates 2008-09
Byline: The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The following doctoral students were awarded funding from federal and private sources to carryout dissertation research during the 2008-09 academic year and beyond:
Ariele Viacava Follis is the recipient of a 2009 Student Research Achievement Award from the Biophysical Society for her work on "Intrinsically Disordered Proteins."
Younus Mirza is the recipient of a School of Foreign Service, Qatar, Teaching Assistant Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. Younus is a doctoral candidate in Arab and Islamic Studies.
Elizabeth Zack is the recipient of a 2009 APF Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship for support of her dissertation research. Elizabeth is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology.
Lauren Fleming is the recipient of a 2008-09 Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Lauren, a doctoral candidate in Philosophy, will be writing on "The Normativity of Personal Commitments."
Shervin Malekzadeh was awarded dissertation fellowships from the Smith Richardson Foundation and the Spencer Foundation for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 academic years, respectively. A doctoral candidate in comparative politics (Government department), Shervin will be writing a dissertation on religion and education in Iranian madrasas.
Curtis Gordon Murphy was awarded a Department of Education Fulbright-Hays DDRA (Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad) award for AY 2008-09; he also was awarded an IREX fellowship to cover another aspect of his field research. A doctoral candidate in the History department, he will be conducting field research in Poland and the Ukraine over the course of the coming academic year.
Sara R. Nimis, a doctoral candidate in history, was awarded a U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Education & Cultural Affairs (ECA) Fellowship for Doctoral Research through the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), as well as a Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) II fellowship, which will provide three tutorials and a provision for travel to Egypt for the period, January-May 2009.
Clara Scholl , a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN; Med Ctr), was awarded a 2008-09 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The award provides up to three years of tuition and research support.
Hoda Yousef , a doctoral candidate in history, was awarded an American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) dissertation fellowship for eight months of research in Egypt for the 2008-09 academic year.
Congratulations!
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DAAD Study Abroad Scholarship Recipients Named
Byline: The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Kevin D. Boyd (SFS '08) and Dominique Shure (SFS "08) were selected from a large pool of applicants for a 2008-09 Study Scholarship Abroad with the German-American Academic Exchange (DAAD). The award provides a cost-of-education tuition scholarship and living expenses to undertake graduate studies at a German university.
Congratulations!
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Dr. Cristina Sanz funded by The Spencer Foundation
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Cristina Sanz, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has received a two-year grant from The Spencer Foundation for her proposal entitled “The Latin Project: A Study on the Interaction between Bilingualism, Cognition and Pedagogical Variables in Language Learning.” The Spencer Foundation provides fellowships and training programs to support research projects investigating the purpose, quality, and availability of education. Please join us in celebrating Dr. Sanz’s award.
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National Endowment for the Humanities Awards
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has recently awarded Drs. Michael Kazin (Professor, History Department) and Henry Richardson (Professor, Philosophy Department) the NEH Fellowship and Faculty Research Award for 2008-2009.
NEH also had awarded fellowships for the University Teachers Program to Drs. Lori Merish (Professor, English Department) and Nicoletta Pireddu (Associate Professor, Italian Department) for 2007-2008.
Congratulations!
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Dr. Christian Wolf's Book Published
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Christian Wolf, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, recently had his book, "Dynamic Stereochemistry of Chiral Compounds," published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Here is a brief synopsis, provided by Dr. Wolf:
"The book provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental concepts of asymmetric synthesis along with in-depth discussions of strategies for selective introduction, interconversion and translocation of central, axial, planar, and helical chirality. A systematic coverage of stereochemical principles and stereodynamic properties of chiral compounds guides the reader through the book and establishes a conceptual linkage to asymmetric synthesis, molecular devices that resemble the structure and stereomutations of propellers, bevel gears, switches and motors, and topologically chiral assemblies such as catenanes and rotaxanes. Racemization and diastereomerization reactions of numerous chiral compounds are discussed as well as the principles, scope and compatibility of commonly used analytical techniques. The book has more than 550 figures, schemes and tables and also a glossary of stereochemical terms and definitions."
To learn more about the book, visit http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2007/9780854042463.asp.
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Jennifer Urbanski wins the President's Prize
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Jennifer Urbanski, a current graduate student in the Department of Biology, received the President's Prize for the best student presentation at the 2007 annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in San Diego, California. Her presentation was part of a session focused on physiology, biochemistry, toxicology and molecular biology.
Please join us in congratulating Jennifer Urbanski for receiving a very prestigious award for her hard work.
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Faculty Grant Awards
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Drs. Jennifer Swift and Richard Weiss, two professors in the Department of Chemistry, receive grants for their projects.
Dr. Jennifer Swift recently received a $485,544 grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which will fund her project, "Template-Directed Crystallization of High Energy Materials,” for a three-year period. Dr. Swift is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Director of Undergraduate Studies. To learn more about Dr. Swift and her work, visit http://chemistry.georgetown.edu/people/swift.html.
Dr. Richard Weiss, Professor of Chemistry, was granted $475,700 from the National Science Foundation to fund his project, "Correlations of Properties of Polymers, Gels, and Reversible Ionic Liquids at Different Length and Time Scales from Structural Data and Thermally or Photo Induced Dynamic Processes," for a three-year period. Visit http://chemistry.georgetown.edu/people/weiss.html to learn more about his work.
Congratulations!
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Survey of Graduate Student Living Expenses
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Georgetown University's Office of Student Financial Services is conducting a survey of graduate students on living expenses and costs.
All Georgetown graduate students are asked to take a few minutes to complete the Cost of Living Survey for 2008-2009. In it, they are asked to make a good faith effort to accurately estimate the actual costs associated with graduate student living expenses. The data collected will be used as a resource in evaluating student financial aid budgets and the greater its credibility the better our chance to bring about positive change. The brief survey takes approximately 5 minutes or less to complete. this brief survey. It is located at: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228SEUFUWK5
The survey ends on February 25, 2009 at 5 p.m.
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GradShare Graduate Community
Byline: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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GRADUATE SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT 2009
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Graduate Commencement Information:
Information about the Graduate School's 2009 Commencement Ceremony can be found at: http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/commencement.cfm
Additional resources can be found on the main University Commencement Weekend page, which is located at: http://commencement.georgetown.edu/
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Recent Awards Made to Doctoral Candidates (2009)
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Michelle Leigh Farrell, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, was awarded the dissertation research fellowship from American Philosophical Society: Lewis and Clark Exploration and Field Research Grant for Dissertation Research for the Fall of 2009 to be conducted in Caracas, Venezuela. Her research is focused on Venezuelan President Chavez's National Film Platform and the National "Revolution of Consciousness" identity project through film.
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GU Art Aficionados (GUAA) at G-40 Exhibit
Byline: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The Georgetown University Art Aficionados (GUAA) organization has announced that it will host an evening at warehouse art exhibition "G-40: The Summit" on Friday, March 26, 2010 from 7 p.m. - midnight.
The event, GTOWN @ G40, will feature art, Eighteenth Street Lounge band "See-I" (which includes six members of Thievery Corporation), an art installation, food and drinks.
Georgetown students, DC area students and the general public are invited. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
More details can be found in the GUAA press release found at: http://grad.georgetown.edu/image_pool/File/Gtown@G40-PressRelease.pdf
or on the GU Event Calendar (March 26, 2010) event listing.
The G-40: The Summit website is located at: http://artwhino.com/g40/
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