Archive: News

  • Business Graduates Asked to Actively Engage in Change for Better

    Ursula Burns, the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company, shares her story of perseverance with Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business graduates and asks them to emerge from the sidelines and actively engage in change so that future generations do not face the same obstacles she encountered.

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  • Congresswoman Holmes Norton Speaks to Law Graduates as They Toward Brilliant Future

    D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who will retire from Georgetown Law faculty after 36 years, and Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit receive honorary degrees from as more than 1,000 graduates receive their J.D.s ans LL.M.s from the Law Center.

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  • School of Medicine Celebrates 166th Graduating Class

    More than 180 School of Medicine graduates receive their medical degrees as members of the school’s 166th graduating class at DAR Constitution Hall.

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  • Speakers Announced for Commencement 2018 Ceremonies

    Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-District of Columbia) and former MIT President Susan Hockfield (G’79) are among those scheduled to speak at the university’s 2018 Commencement ceremonies May 17-20. Read more about the 2018 Commencement speakers.

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  • Johnson Asks ‘Heroic Generation’ to Lead in Health Care

    Luci Baines Johnson, businesswoman and second daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, tells graduates of the School of Nursing & Health Studies to dream, serve, and live a “purpose-driven life.”

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  • Georgetown Celebrates its 10th Graduation Ceremony in Qatar

    The Class of 2018 becomes the 10th graduating class from Georgetown Qatar, joining more than 440 alumni from 52 countries since the Doha campus opened its doors in 2005.

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  • Meet the Class of 2018

    Students in the Class of 2018, having won prestigious scholarships, conducted groundbreaking research, studied abroad and participated in public service activities during their time at Georgetown, are ready to make their impact on the world.

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  • Georgetown Qatar Seniors Reflect on Four Years of Learning, In and Out of Classroom

    Four Georgetown Qatar students from the Class of 2018 reflect on their journeys toward achieving their undergraduate degrees before the university’s May 3 commencement ceremony in Doha, Qatar.

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  • Speakers Announced for 2018 Ceremonies

    Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-District of Columbia) and former MIT president Susan Hockfield (G’79) are among those scheduled to speak at the university’s 2018 Commencement ceremonies May 17-20.

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