Georgetown University

Georgetown University Law Center is the law school of Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C. Established in 1870, the Law Center offers... J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. degrees in law. As the second largest law school in the United States, Georgetown Law often touts the advantages of its wide range of program offerings and proximity to federal agencies and courts, including the Supreme Court. Georgetown Law is one of the most prestigious institutions of legal education in the United States. The Law Center is one of the top ten most selective law schools in the United States, as well as one of the 14 law schools that consistently rank at the very top of U.S. News and World Report's annual rankings. Georgetown was ranked 7th in the 2009–10 Law School 100 rankings, which purports to use qualitative rather than quantitative criteria. Georgetown Law was ranked 5th in the Super Lawyers rankings, which measures the number of graduates from each law school who are voted Super Lawyers. In Brian Leiter's law school rankings, Georgetown ranks within the top ten law schools based on selectivity, student quality, and Supreme Court clerkship placements. In the 2010 edition of U.S.
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Georgetown University School of Medicine, a medical school opened in 1851, is one of Georgetown University's five graduate schools. It is located on... Reservoir Road in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, adjacent to the University's main campus. Its mission is to provide a comprehensive approach to medical education, "guided by the Jesuit tradition of cura personalis, care of the whole person." The School of Medicine works in association with the 609-bed Georgetown University Hospital, Washington Hospital Center, and nine other affiliated federal and community hospitals in the Washington metropolitan area. Georgetown is the oldest Catholic medical school in the United States. The School is part of the Georgetown University Medical Center, which comprises roughly 80% of the research initiatives occurring at Georgetown University as a whole. It is the closest academic medical center in proximity to the National Institutes of Health. Georgetown and the NIH offer a combined GU-NIH PhD program in biomedical research to foster direct collaboration between the neighboring institutions.
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The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the oldest graduate school in the United States, and is one of four graduate schools at Georgetown... University in Washington, D.C., United States. The graduate program first was founded in 1820, when Georgetown College graduates expressed the desire for continued studies. The school offered its first graduate degree in 1821. The school existed independently from 1855 until the end of the American Civil War, when low student numbers forced its suspension. The school was reestablished in 1891, conferring its first doctoral degree in 1897. The school is currently the second largest graduate school at Georgetown, behind the Georgetown University Law Center. The school offers 46 programs in 34 departments.
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The Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies , is a school at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., United States. SCS provides a... Georgetown education to students at every stage of learning, including high school programs for adolescents, summer school programs for college students, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, certificate programs for professionals, and continuing education courses for seniors age 55 and older. Founded as the School of Summer and Continuing Education in 1956, it graduated its first students in 1975. Today SCS enrolls more than 5,000 students annually in all of its programs. The school offers a bachelor's degree in liberal studies, a master of arts degree in liberal studies, and a doctoral degree in liberal studies, the first known doctorate of its kind in the world. The school also offers Master of Professional Studies degrees in human resources management, journalism, public relations & corporate communications, real estate, sports industry management and technology management.
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The McDonough School of Business is one of the four undergraduate and one of the five graduate schools of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.... Named for Georgetown alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough, the McDonough School of Business confers degrees on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Several academic themes distinguish the McDonough School of Business and give the school a special identity among managers and academicians, including international and intercultural dimensions of the marketplace, the importance of written and oral communication, and interpersonal effectiveness in organizations. As a Catholic and Jesuit university, Georgetown stresses ethics and social justice in its curriculum; the McDonough School of Business retains two Jesuits for guidance in these areas. Undergraduates work toward a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration . The curriculum combines business and liberal arts courses to provide a strong foundation in critical thinking and reasoning.
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Georgetown College, infrequently Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences, is the oldest school within Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The... College is the largest undergraduate school at Georgetown, and until the founding of the Medical School in 1850, was the only higher education division. In 1821, the school granted its first graduate degrees, though the graduate portion has since divided as the Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Georgetown Public Policy Institute, which does confer graduate degrees, is an independent Government department and Economics department initiative with its own dean. Former theology professor Chester Gillis is the Dean of the College, a position he was named to after initially serving as interim Dean while a search committee, led by University President John J. DeGioia and Provost James J. O'Donnell was underway. The previous dean, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, left to become the President of Bryn Mawr College. Alone, the college accounts for over 3,200 students, 30 academic majors with 23 departments. This forms the core of the undergraduate population.
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Bradley Charles Cooper is an American film, theater, and television actor. He is known for his roles in the films The Hangover, The A-Team, Wedding... Crashers, and Limitless. In 2011, People magazine named Cooper "Sexiest Man Alive". Cooper was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria , is Italian-American, and his father, Charles J. Cooper, was Irish-American and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch. He has one sister named Holly. Cooper was raised Catholic. While attending Germantown Academy, Cooper worked at the Philadelphia Daily News. After graduating from Germantown Academy in 1993, he attended Villanova University for his freshman year, then transferred to Georgetown University, from which he graduated with an honors BA in English in 1997. Cooper became fluent in French at Georgetown and spent six months as an exchange student in Aix-en-Provence, France. Later, in 2000, he received an MFA in acting from Actors Studio Drama School at The New School in New York City.
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Solomon H. Snyder is an American neuroscientist. Snyder attended Georgetown University 1955-1958 and received his MD from Georgetown University... School of Medicine in 1962. After medical internship at the Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco, he served as a research associate 1963-1965 at the NIH, where he studied under Julius Axelrod. Snyder moved to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to complete his residency in psychiatry . He was appointed to the faculty there in 1966 as Assistant Professor of Pharmacology. In 1968 he was promoted to Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry and in 1970 to Full Professor in both departments. His laboratory is noted for the use of receptor binding studies to characterize the actions of neurotransmitters and psychoactive drugs. In 1973, with then-graduate student Candace Pert, he discovered the opioid receptor and later identified the existence of normally occurring opiate-like peptides in the brain. For this work he was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1978.
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Edward D. Freis was an American physician and researcher, who received the Albert Lasker Award for his studies of the treatment of hypertension.... Born in Chicago, Illinois to Lithuanian immigrant parents, he had his eyes set on becoming an actor. After a few shows, however, he realized that acting was not for him, and he decided to be a doctor. Freis attended the University of Arizona and the Columbia University medical school. After graduation he joined the United States Army Air Corps, working in the medical corps during World War II. When the war ended, he met Doctor Chester Keefer, who had done penicillin trials. Freis decided that he wanted to become a researcher. He went to work for the United States Veterans Affairs Administration in Washington, DC, specializing in the study of hypertenstion. At the time, it was felt by the medical community that high blood pressure was a good thing, because it improved circulation. But Freis's studies, first published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1954 then later expanded in the 1960s, showed that hypertension actually increased the likelihood of stroke and heart attack.
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