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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
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Breaking barriers and accelerating international problem-solving
Professor James Habyarimana knows that the solutions to address barriers to better health and education outcomes in developing countries will come in a matter of time. He…
February 6, 2023
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McCourt School experts help prepare previously-incarcerated citizens for careers in law
As a partner to the Mayor’s Office on Returning Citizen Affairs (MORCA)-Georgetown Paralegal Program, the McCourt School’s Career Development team was tasked with preparing…
January 16, 2023
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National Urban Fellow Cecil Brooks Jr. looks to break cycles of poverty
Hailing from the South Bronx in New York, by way of Central America, National Urban Fellow Cecil Brooks Jr. has always obsessed over the intricacies underneath stable. &#…
January 9, 2023
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McCourt alum Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) elected to serve as House Democratic Leader
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) (MPP’94), who earned a Master of Public Policy degree from what was then known as the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, was unanimously elected to…
December 6, 2022