Spotlight: Georgetown Faculty, Students, Staff, and Alumni Tackle the COVID-19 Crisis
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COVID-19 Law Lab Launches
The COVID-19 Law Lab initiative is a joint project of the World Health Organization, United Nations Development Programme, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and Georgetown University. The lab gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic.
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Xuefeng Liu, M.D., professor of pathology and oncology, and his team have been working to figure out how the coronavirus enters healthy cells and whether it’s possible to block that mechanism with antiviral drugs.
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Isaiah Fleming-Klink (SFS’19), an Urban Fellow in the New York City Office of the Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development, has been working hard since the COVID-19 crisis hit. He has spent the past few months reviewing policies surrounding unlawful evictions of renters by their landlords.
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Catherine Zolbrod Freeman (NHS’17) and Moira Redmond (NHS’17) have been working together to care for adult patients with COVID-19 at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
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For the past two years of his Master of Arts in Latin American Studies degree at SFS, Marvin Wiley (G’20) has worked hard to center the social and cultural experiences of marginalized Latin American communities in his classwork and research.
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U7+ Student Forum Participants Consider Life After COVID-19
How should universities best prepare students for life after graduation, in light of COVID-19 global pandemic? The U7+ Worldwide Student Forum brought together 85 students from 22 universities across the U7+ Network, an international alliance of universities committed to tackling global issues. Five Georgetown students participated in the forum.
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When Andrew Straky (C’20) first registered to vote in his home state of Michigan, he learned that there was a law requiring that state citizens vote in person at least once before they can vote absentee, "an unnecessary barrier,” he recalls.
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Upcoming Events
Election 2020: Left, Right, or Politically Homeless?
Georgetown Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life
September 8 I 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. EDT I Online
Dueling Pandemics: Faith, HIV, and COVID-19
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
September 10 I 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EDT I Online
The Ethics and Politics of Guantánamo Bay
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
September 16 I 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. EDT I Online
Recent Events
G20 Interfaith Forum: North America Regional Consultation
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Media: Event Video (Opening), Event Video (Closing)
Best Practices and Experiences in Latin America During the COVID 19 Crisis
Latin America Leadership Program
Media: Event Video
Faith and the Faithful in the 2020 Elections: Religion, Racism, and the COVID-19 Crisis
Georgetown Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life
Media: Event Video
Laudato Sí After Five Years
Georgetown Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life
Media: Event Video
How Presidents Deal With Crisis
Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service
Media: Event Video
In Institutions We Trust? The Economics of Institutional Change
Global Economic Challenges Network
Media: Event Video
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