Research & Action
The Capitol Campus is an incubator for new ideas that contribute to the common good. Researchers and students from the campus’s schools work together to address important issues facing our world — next door to the nation’s policymakers and leading thinkers.
The promises and dangers of artificial intelligence
How Can AI Increase Early Diagnoses?
Can LLMs Help Recipients of Food Benefits?
Can Emotion Predict Migration?
Working at the Intersection
Through Tech & Society, Georgetown centers and programs across campuses — including several focused on public policy and law — collaborate on new approaches to researching issues at the intersection of technology, ethics and governance.
Addressing the Earth’s Challenges
Georgetown’s Earth Commons Institute accelerates action on the most pressing issues of our planet by catalyzing environmental scholarship across disciplines, creating cutting-edge, interdisciplinary learning experiences, and developing opportunities for faculty, students and external partners to pursue solutions in service of the world.
Speaking of Research…
“I’m really curious about where microplastics in the ocean are coming from and how they are connected. It makes a lot of sense to look at the rivers as major pathways.”
“Clear communication about how election processes work and how to access voting is important. Drowning the message can make it more difficult for voters to get the information they need.”
“Urban planning synthesizes knowledge from an array of disciplines and adjacent professions — not only architecture, engineering, economics and governance; it also incorporates knowledge from sociology, public health, ecology, finance, digitization and systems modeling.”
Student Research
Students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels participate in faculty-led research projects across the Capitol Campus and the university. Opportunities also exist for team and individual projects through various research initiatives and fellowships.
Raiding the Genome
Student researchers contributed to the first in-depth analysis of a little-known U.S. government program that takes and stores DNA from immigrants for use in policing. The study was conducted by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology.
The Impacts of Community-based Conservation in Santa Marta, Colombia
Sophia Rose Monsalvo (C’26) is part of the inaugural class earning the B.S. in Environment & Sustainability. Her recent research in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, where she evaluated the impact of environmental and community-based programs, recently won second place at the Big East Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium held in Madison Square Garden.
Our Research Centers
Researchers on the Capitol Campus work at dozens of campus centers and institutes that use an interdisciplinary lens to investigate and suggest solutions for issues local, national and global.
In his new book, Anderson François traces the lives of formerly enslaved people who gained citizenship after the Civil War and how they shaped our understanding of the Reconstruction Era.
A new NSF-funded project led by Martha Weiss aims to find out what happens to forest food webs when billions of cicadas emerge. It zooms in on often-overlooked creatures: ants.