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Georgetown election: Lauren King talks School Committee bid Wicked Local Lauren King is an elementary school principal who’s spent two decades helping to shape and nurture learning. And now she wants to bring that experience to the Georgetown School Committee. King is one of three candidates vying for two seats on the committee in the upcoming May 10 local election. After growing up in Londonderry, N.H., King earned her undergraduate degree at UMass Amherst, with a double major in dance and elementary education. She then earned her master’s degree in elementary education at Simmons Colleg...

Qatar Living speaks to Mubarak Nasser Al-Thani to learn more about his journey being a self-taught artist. Mubarak attained his bachelor’s degree in International Politics in 2010 from Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He then got a master’s degree in Urban Planning from NYU Wagner in 2017. Mubarak is a self-taught artist and he has never studied art. “I think it is a long relationship that there was no single moment where I said let me do art. I think I was catching it since I was young and that developed in sketching and painting first, then it developed into canvases,”...

Democrats claim victory in Georgia Senate races In a blow to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, Democratic challengers in two pivotal Senate runoff races in Georgia, Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, defeated Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. The result, if it survives various challenges, would leave the US Senate divided between 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats, with the vice president holding the tiebreaking vote. After the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on January 20—assuming that occurs as scheduled—the Democrats would take the maj...

School of Nursing and Health Studies to be split into two separate colleges Georgetown University President John DeGioia announced on Dec. 7 the School of Nursing and Health Studies (NHS) will be split into two different schools, the Georgetown School of Nursing (GSN) and the Georgetown School of Health (GSH). In a university-wide announcement, DeGioia indicated that this division will be formally implemented by July 2022. The NHS is currently home to all of Georgetown’s health science programs: Global Health, Healthcare Management & Policy, Human Science, and Nursing. DeGioia’s letter...

Biden Names Two Obama White House Veterans to New Roles Susan Rice, who was President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, will lead the Domestic Policy Council. Denis McDonough, Mr. Obama’s chief of staff, was nominated secretary of veterans affairs. Susan Rice, a lifelong national security professional, is being placed in a top domestic policy job.Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Dec. 10, 2020 WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. named two senior officials from the Obama White House to key jobs on Thursday, putting Susan Rice, a former national security adv...