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SSP Recommended Reading, Viewing, and Listening, Summer 2021
Most years, we ask the SSP community what books they would recommend to students who want to keep their minds busy over the summer. For 2021, we’re changing things up! We asked our students, alumni, and faculty what fiction books, movies, television shows, and podcasts they would recommend. The only thing not allowed? Nonfiction books. Their responses…
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MSFS Awards Full-Tuition Scholarships through Futures, African Student, and McHenry Scholarships
MSFS is thrilled to introduce the Fall 2021 recipients of the inaugural MSFS Futures Scholarship, the African Student Scholarship, and the McHenry Fellowship. These exceptional individuals were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, including the largest number of applicants we have received at MSFS in the past decade. The three were chosen because…
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Alumni Spotlight: Payne Fellow Jackie Rojas (GHD’19) Reflects on her International Development Journey
From a young age, Jackie Rojas (GHD’19) developed a unique perspective on life in developing countries through hearing her parents’ stories of tumultuous times in Venezuela and El Salvador. These stories, and seeing the challenges faced by her extended family in Venezuela, have always been very present in her mind, and eventually led her to…
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Alumnus Jon Ossoff (SFS’09) Wins Historic Georgia Senate Race, Says SFS Training Has Been “Indispensable”
On the morning of January 6, the eyes of the country were on SFS alumnus Jon Ossoff (SFS’09) as he thanked voters for electing him in a U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia that will change the balance of power in the United States. Ossoff and fellow Democratic candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican incumbents…
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Ethics Retreat 2019: Thinking Through Real-Life Ethics Issues in Development
GHD’s first-year students participated in the Ethics Retreat on September 20-21, 2019, a signature component of the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University. Sitting cross-legged and propped up by colorful cushions in a circle at Georgetown University’s Calcagnini Contemplative Center next door to the Shenandoah Mountains in Virginia, students and faculty gathered to think…
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Legendary SFS Professor Charles Pirtle Offers a Retrospective on His Beloved Map of the Modern World Course
On July 1, 2020, the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Georgetown Alumni Association hosted legendary former SFS professor Charles Pirtle to share a retrospective on his Map of the Modern World course. The talk was part of the SFS Online & On Topic virtual event series. Pirtle is largely credited with being the…
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SSP Recommended Reading, Summer 2020
For the past several years, we’ve asked SSP faculty what books they would recommend to students who want to keep their brains active over the summer. (Check out last year’s recommendations here!) This year, we changed things up a bit and asked our students and alumni the same question. Here are the books they’d suggest…
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Maputi Botlhole, GHD’20, Wins the Global Citizen Award
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa Congratulations to Maputi Botlhole, who was awarded the Global Citizen Award. This award recognizes a graduate student at Georgetown who is in good academic standing, demonstrates significant and well-documented progress in developing intercultural competency and global-mindedness based on examples…
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First Prize Winner at the Global Social Innovation Lab Pitches App to Address Unsafe Travel Conditions in Bangladesh
Teams in the Global Social Innovation Lab spent two days learning and developing products for their defined problems. The first place prize went to Safe Travels, the second place prize went to Momo for All, and the third place prize went to Adiona. The Global Social Innovation Lab (GSIL) took place January 25-26th, 2020, where students came…
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Global Social Innovation Lab Emphasizes Human-Centered Design to Address Social Problems
The Global Social Innovation Lab (GSIL) was a unique opportunity for students to use Human-Centered Design to examine and come up with a solution for a current global issue. This January 30th, students from across Georgetown University participated in the Global Social Innovation Lab (GSIL). During the GSIL, seven teams created and pitched solutions to global…