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Alumni
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Six McCourt Students and Alumni Named Presidential Management Fellows

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.…

December 6, 2019

University News

Leading Social Policy Researcher to Join McCourt

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…

December 3, 2019

Discovery & Impact

Helping Doctors Care for DC’s Most Vulnerable

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…

November 24, 2019

Discovery & Impact

Serving Youth Caught Between the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems

With its Crossover Youth Practice Model, the McCourt School's Center for Juvenile Justice Reform is working to improve outcomes for young people who find themselves moving back…

November 18, 2019

Alumni
Student Experience

Improving Voting Transparency

Anyone who voted in the District of Columbia last year might have seen one of the volunteers for a new project, Observe D.C. The first-ever sample-based election observation…

November 11, 2019

Discovery & Impact

Georgetown Center for Children and Families Releases 9th Annual Report on Children’s Health Coverage

Today the Georgetown Center for Children and Families released their ninth annual report on children's health coverage and launched a new interactive data.…

October 30, 2019

Discovery & Impact

McCourt Professor’s Early Research Paves Way for Policy Debate on Criminal Justice Reform

December 2018 marked a significant moment in U.S. criminal justice reform when the First Step Act was signed into law. The bill aims to ease the effects of hard-on-crime policies…

October 28, 2019

Discovery & Impact

Shedding New Light on Urban Eviction

As eviction gains national attention, McCourt assistant professor Eva Rosen’s research is shedding light on the little-known landscape of eviction in Washington, D.C., and the…

October 11, 2019

University News

Sheila Foster Installed as the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy

Foster, who has a joint appointment in the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Georgetown Law Center, is an expert in the areas of property, land use, environmental justice…

October 11, 2019

Alumni
Discovery & Impact
University News

A Legal Lifesaver for Venezuelan Refugees

Political and social unrest has forced millions of Venezuelans to flee their country, often by traveling through Colombia to Ecuador. Many are stuck at the border because they…

October 7, 2019