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Transforming conflict into mutual understanding
Rachel Milner Gillers aims to help students learn how to transform conflict into mutual understanding — a key skill in academic, personal and professional life. As the director…
October 16, 2023
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Two McCourt students awarded prestigious Bryce Harlow Fellowships
The Bryce Harlow Foundation awarded a total of 27 fellowships for the 2023-2024 academic year, including McCourt students Mika Alvarez (MPP’24) and Ferdous Dehqan (MPP’26),…
September 5, 2023
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McCourt students’ educational tool is applied by international organization
Cuong Pham Vu (MIDP’23), Nicolás Quintero (MIDP’23), Payal Soneja (MIDP’23) and Hailey Wellenstein (MIDP’23) received high praise for their capstone project at the 2023…
August 7, 2023
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McCourt School student publishes biography on President Garfield
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, C.W. (Charlie) Goodyear grew up living between Australia and the United Kingdom before returning to the United States to attend Yale University.…
July 3, 2023
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2023 Policy Challenge winners brought home $3K and newfound passions for policymaking
The 2023 Georgetown Public Policy Challenge grand prize was awarded to William Macci (L’24) and Sparsha Muralidhara (G’23) for their proposal, E-QualityDC, which empowers DC…
April 24, 2023
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McCourt School students use data analytics to help overturn wrongful convictions
Since 2018, the Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) has provided Georgetown students the opportunity to engage in criminal justice and legal studies through its Making an…
April 17, 2023
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A new data toolkit could bring economic policy into the 21st century
The McCourt School’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) hosted its second annual MDI Distinguished Lecture, a series focused on bringing leading scholars from around the world to…
April 12, 2023
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Massive Data Institute partners with leading data scientists at Howard and Morgan State Universities
The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy is partnering with researchers at Howard University and Morgan State University to…
April 3, 2023
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Ukrainian director general details digital transformation in war-time Ukraine
In conversation with the McCourt School, Gulsanna Mamediieva discusses the relationship between digital transformation and governance, and the future of democratization and anti…
March 27, 2023
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Bringing the numbers game to policy studies
A love of numbers is what originally lured Jake Kochmansky (MPP’23) to McCourt. As an undergraduate at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania — where he played…
February 20, 2023