Archive: Media and Scholarship
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“A Pilot Study to Understand the Role of Medical Humanities in Medical Education”
Clark Pitcher, Arya Prasad, Daniel Marchalik, Hunter Groninger, Lakshmi Krishnan and Michael Pottash study the perception of the students enrolled in the Georgetown University Medical Humanities Initiative of the benefits of a medical humanities curriculum.
Category: Scholarship
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How to Have a Conversation, Episode 1: “We Were Confronting Each Other and We Were Being Brave”, María José Pareja Rozo Explores How In Your Shoes Facilitates Conversations
María José Pareja Rozo, Graduate Student of the Medical Humanities Initiative in the 2021-2022 academic year, launched How to Have a Conversation, a podcast about how the arts and humanities engage us in conversation. The pilot episode focuses on the In Your Shoes project, co-created by Derek Goldman.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“Syndemics and Clinical Science”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors discuss the emergence of syndemics, how epidemics interact, and what scientists, clinicians and policymakers can do with this information.
Category: Scholarship
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The Launch of the New School of Health, under Dr. Christopher King’s Leadership, Is an Opportunity to Reimagine Health Sciences at Georgetown
On July 1, 2022, Georgetown’s new School of Health was launched under the leadership of Dr. Christopher King as inaugural dean, which provides an opportune moment for those whose work or scholarship touches health to inform the architecture of a brand-new enterprise.
Category: Media
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“The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region”
Timothy Newfield and his research team use palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, historical records and climate model simulations to assess the potential broader impact of the 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium volcanic events.
Category: Scholarship
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Carpe Diem, Saba Nia’s Debut Novel, Will Be Out in July
Carpe Diem, the debut novel of Saba Nia (COL’23), Psychology Major and Creative Writing and Biology Minor, and one of our 2020-2021 Research Fellowships recipients, will be published by New Degree Press next July.
Category: Media
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Racism as Distraction: Aminatta Forna Writes about Toni Morrison
In this text she wrote for the Luminato Festival Toronto on Toni Morrison, Aminatta Forna reflects about Toni Morrison’s powerful words, that frame racism’s function as distraction.
Category: Media
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“How to Address Sexuality and Intimacy with People Living with a Serious Illness”, Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne Kelemen Write for the Center to Advance Palliative Care
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne Kelemen address an area that is often overlooked in a routine palliative care assessment: the impact of serious illness on intimacy and sexuality
Category: Media
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Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Online Classes Build Communities Across the Globe
Early on in the pandemic, Julia Langley, director of the Georgetown Lombardi Arts & Humanities Program, decided to experiment with moving some of the AHP classes online via Zoom and providing free tickets through Eventbrite. They became popular fast, attracting participants from a wide geographic spread, including 22 states, 23 countries and six continents.
Category: Media
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Emily Mendenhall Presents Her Book Unmasked in the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast
Emily Mendenhall tells host Austin Clyde the story of her most recent book, Unmasked: COVID, Community and the Case of Okoboji from the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast.
Categories: Media, Past events