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At 6 feet, 10 inches tall, Coach John Thompson Jr.—affectionately known as “Big John”—stood above many as an athlete, pioneering NCAA coach, architect of the Big East, three-time Olympian, and a champion and advocate for racial justice and his Washington...

Above: Aline de Souza, M.D., (left) and Xie Wu (right) do RNA prep for ACE2 studies led by Hong Ji, M.D.
When the pandemic began widening in March 2020, Georgetown shuttered research labs except for work needed to sustain critical ongoing projects and new COVID-19 research. Working with public health experts, Georgetown restarted its research slowly and...

The Crown Heights community is made up of mostly low-income families of color.
The vast majority of my students identify as Afro-Caribbean and are from countries such as Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Lucia, all over the Caribbean. A lot of them are first- or second-generation immigrant families. Most of the students at our school receive...

Rev. Ebony Grisom joined Georgetown as a Protestant chaplain in fall 2019. This past summer, she became interim director of Protestant Christian Ministry.
What brought you to Georgetown?
I had worked in higher education, and I was really excited about the opportunity to have the best of both worlds— both fully church and fully academic. Georgetown was particularly appealing because people here see the value of fully integrating faith...