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“I had never heard of a business model like this”: The ambitious affordable housing solution for working-class Americans

With deep roots in San Francisco, Tim Szarnicki is leading an innovative, affordable housing business model aimed at a group often sold short: middle-income earners. As executive…

November 13, 2024

Discovery & Impact
Policy Perspectives

Newmark Scholar Ryan Johnson transitions from the Army to data-driven public service

Each year, the Craig Newmark Veterans Scholarship Fund offers tuition assistance to as many as nine graduate students. The recipients, who are exclusively active-duty service…

November 11, 2024

General News
Policy Perspectives
Student Experience

McCourt School and Decision Desk HQ partner to offer a hands-on learning lab for aspiring political analysts

The McCourt School of Public Policy has joined forces with Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), a leading election data provider. The partnership offers nearly 150 Georgetown University…

October 21, 2024

Discovery & Impact
Policy Perspectives
Student Experience

McCourt School’s Latin American initiatives soar, elevating global engagement

The McCourt School of Public Policy is deepening its engagement with Latin America, leveraging a century of collaboration between Georgetown University and the region to drive…

October 10, 2024

Discovery & Impact
Policy Perspectives

GU Politics Fellows offer strategies to safeguard voting and civil rights in U.S. elections

At the crossroads of technology and politics, former GU Politics Fellows and current Advisory Board members Cristóbal Alex, Katie Harbath and Katie Walsh Shields are the ideal…

October 7, 2024

General News
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Maya Lin reflects on her original multi-part installations for 125 E St.

At just 21 years old, Maya Lin was thrust into the spotlight in 1981 when, as a senior at Yale University, she submitted the winning design in a national competition for the…

September 19, 2024

Alumni
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Georgetown alumnus develops innovative database to expose LGBTQ+ abuses

When Juan Pablo Delgado (MPP’19) started litigating cases in Mexican courts on LGBTQ+ rights abuses, local and national authorities often denied the existence of prejudice…

April 8, 2024

Faculty Impact
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Research by McCourt School criminal justice policy expert targets police training efficacy

Andrea Headley’s previous work has focused on improving police-community relations in communities of color, assessing the effect of race during use-of-force encounters,…

March 11, 2024

General News
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Shaping tech for the common good: How Georgetown experts are limiting harms and maximizing benefits

Every day, humans and machines across the globe create 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data, according to IBM — enough to fill 20 billion file cabinets. Thanks to powerful new…

December 11, 2023

General News
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Student Experience

A recipe for diplomatic success

Ideruugan Galbaatar  (MPP’23) hadn’t thought much about the role food plays in international diplomacy. But after 10 dinners with some of the world’s leading diplomats,…

November 27, 2023