Stories from McCourt
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Georgetown Awards Early-Career Professors With Grants To Explore AI, Digital Ethics
A McCourt professor is among three early-career faculty members awarded $100,000 in research funding and leave to pursue their research in AI and digital ethics.
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Meet the 2026-2027 Newmark Scholars
Meet the current Newmark Scholars leading through service at the McCourt School of Public Policy.
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How McCourt Students Are Helping Reduce Youth Violence in the Nation’s Capital
Student teams in the McCourt School’s Policy Innovation Lab partner with local organizations to shape equitable public policy.
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Inside Foundations: How Students Are Learning to Engage with Bias and Become Ethical Changemakers
For seven years, McCourt’s Foundations program has been equipping incoming students with the skills to lead in public policy.
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10 Grad Students Across Policy, Business, Security and Law Named Bryce Harlow Foundation Fellows
Ten Georgetown graduate and professional students, including three McCourt students, have been named fellows of the Bryce Harlow Foundation for the second year in a row.
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Around the World, McCourt Students Bring Development Policy to Life
Through MIDP’s Summer Experience and gui2de summer internships, McCourt students spent their summers applying analytical methods at leading international development institutions.
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From the Classroom to City Hall: My Summer Interning for the City of Boston
Tejas Kaur (MPP’27) blogs her experiences as the Summer 2026 McCourt School Summer Storyteller.
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Capitol Dreams and Hilltop Views: Why I Transferred To Georgetown
Yasmin Diallo (C’28) is a sophomore from Atlanta, Georgia, majoring in public policy within the College of Arts & Sciences and the McCourt School of Public Policy.
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This Oncologist is ‘Restoring Trust’ in Rural Healthcare Through Public Policy
It was not one defining moment that led Dr. Wade Swenson (EMPL’26) to rural health policy advocacy, but an accumulation of life-changing diagnoses and patient stories.
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From the Mountains of Balochistan to Capitol Hill
Walwala Bashir’s interest in development policy started in the place she calls home. After her time at McCourt, she aims to address the challenges that first sparked that interest.