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In 2021, the McCourt School emerged as a leader in driving equity and access to our cutting-edge graduate education, preparing students from all backgrounds for the challenges of…

McCourt experts weigh in on the current political environment and the key policy issues that will continue to sway voters next year. It seems almost…

Dr. Kugler’s confirmation would mark her return to U.S. government after serving in the Obama Administration. President Biden has formally announced the nomination of…

Learn how a group of McCourt School of Public Policy students designed new algorithms for the city’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) to improve the city’s housing inspection…

McCourt Students’ Help DC Residents “Breathe Easy” In DC, asthma rates are among some of the highest in the nation. After learning this, two McCourt School students created an effort…

In a 2017 YouGov poll, public opinion in the UK rated weather forecasters as more trusted than economists. In the US, a survey asking a similar question also showed a…

This year, three economists were awarded a Nobel Prize for their rigorously analytical approach to international development – an approach that is also at the heart of the McCourt School…

The McCourt School of Public Policy is excited to announce that six students and alumni were selected as Presidential Management Fellows for the class of 2020.

Gordon Berlin, the former President of MDRC, and a leading innovator in the field of public problem solving, will join the McCourt School on January 1, 2020, as a research…

For more than 15 years, the McCourt School’s National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health has been helping Washington, DC’s pediatric medical providers better serve some of the…