Category: News
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Postdoctoral Fellow Maëva Millan and Professor Sarah Stewart Johnson Conduct First-of-Its-Kind Research Searching for Organic Molecules on Red Planet
In a paper published in Nature Astronomy, Georgetown Postdoctoral Fellow Maëva Millan and her advisor, Sarah Stewart Johnson, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program, share their findings from the very first “wet chemistry derivatization” experiment performed on Mars, where NASA’s Curiosity Rover landed in August 2012.
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Space Travel Can Adversely Impact Energy Production in a Cell
Studies of both mice and humans who have traveled into space reveal that critical parts of a cell’s energy production machinery, the mitochondria, can be made dysfunctional due to changes in gravity, radiation exposure and other factors, according to investigators at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Recent Alumna Focuses on Environmental Impacts, Polar Research
Mia Vanderwilt (SFS’19) has studied snow hydrology in Alaska, fisheries in Iceland and soil microbiomes in Antarctic permafrost. The 2020 Rhodes Scholarship finalist’s childhood in the Pacific Northwest and love of the outdoors spurred her interests in alpine and polar fieldwork and studies of climate policy while at Georgetown, where she was a research assistant in Georgetown biology and School of Foreign Service professor Sarah Johnson’s lab.
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Observatory Named for Georgetown Physicist Who Encourages Next Generation of Women in Science
Sarah Jiang (C’21) says she’s thrilled that the National Science Foundation chose to name a telescope designed to conduct “a vast astronomical survey” after Vera Rubin (G’54), the renowned Georgetown alumna and physicist.
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Professor David Koplow on Planetary Defense: The Asteroid Problem
The question seems like science fiction or a classic video game: What should be done — legally, of course — if we discover some day that there is a large asteroid on a collision course with Earth?
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New $7M NASA Grant to Georgetown Professor Could Help Discover Life on Mars
NASA invests nearly $7 million in an effort, led by biology professor Sarah Johnson, aimed at developing a new kind of extraterrestrial life detection system that could be used on Mars.
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Animal Study Suggests Deep Space Travel May Significantly Damage GI Function in Astronauts
Simulations with animal models meant to mirror galactic cosmic radiation exposure to astronauts are raising red flags for investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) about the health of astronauts during long voyages, such as to Mars.
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International Research Team Advocates New Strategy to Explore Life on Mars
A paper published today in Nature Geoscience by an international research team that includes Georgetown’s Sarah Stewart Johnson recommends an unconventional strategy to look for the possibility of life on Mars.
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Antarctica Expedition Could Help Solve Mars’ Question of Life
Georgetown professor Sarah Stewart Johnson is leading a National Science Foundation-funded expedition to Antarctica later this month that may one day help solve the question of whether there was ever life on Mars.
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GUMC Researchers Receive $9 Million NASA Grant for Space Radiation Research
NASA has selected a team of Georgetown University Medical Center researchers to receive one of three NASA Specialized Centers of Research (NSCOR) grants to study space radiation research.
