Giving News

The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation, continuing its longstanding partnership with Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has made a gift to establish the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention. This gift—part…

The services may have changed—no more need for film processing—but after 50 years, The Corp remains true to its founding mission. In 1973, several members of the newly established Students …

Georgetown launches new Earth Commons Institute with big goals for the planet and the Hilltop In February, Georgetown announced the launch of an ambitious new interdisciplinary institute for study, research,…

Few Americans would associate Martin Luther King Jr. with baseball. But Georgetown history professor Chandra Manning kicks off her course, Baseball and American Society, by having the class read…

Special events honor the contributions of female athletes In 1952, Georgetown students at the Nursing School established the Women’s Athletic Association, allowing women to participate in intramural sports. The association…

Donors Tom (B’88) and Karen Gletner (Parents’21, ’22) meet in the Gletner Family Salon with GUMC adjunct professor and fine artist Robin Davisson (center), who created the abstract art piece…

Would it surprise you to know that Georgetown hosts a banking and financial services institution that is federally recognized and guaranteed by the National Credit Union Administration? And that this…

The academic field of disability studies took root at Georgetown in 2014 with a cluster of classes in theology, literature, and theater. From that small seed the program has grown…

Three Georgetown faculty members have initiated a five-year project, supported by a $2.6 million grant from the Department of Education, to improve educational equity for multilingual K through 12 students…

In Spring 2022, Georgetown’s Prisons and Justice Initiative launched its inaugural bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated students, a one-of-a-kind program at a four-year university.