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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

Discovery & Impact
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Student Experience

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

Discovery & Impact
Student Experience

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

Discovery & Impact
Research
Tech & Public Policy

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

Discovery & Impact
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Research

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

Discovery & Impact
General News
Research

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

Discovery & Impact
Student Experience

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

Discovery & Impact
Faculty Impact

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

Discovery & Impact
General News

McCourt School experts help prepare formerly 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