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Leading U.S. decision-desk operation selects Georgetown’s McCourt School as its 2024 election hub

Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), a leading provider of real-time election results and race calls, will base one of the nation’s only decision-desk operations at Georgetown University…

February 12, 2024

Alumni News
General News

Georgetown alumni philanthropy supports GU Politics Fellows Program

Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) at the McCourt School of Public Policy named its newly renovated meeting and convening space…

January 24, 2024

General News
Policy Perspectives
Student Experience

Building bridges: GU Politics’ mission to break polarization

Dean Maria Cancian is on a mission to make the McCourt School the most inclusive public policy school in the country by increasing racial, geographic, socioeconomic and…

November 6, 2023

General News
University News

$250K gift expands research and policymaker engagement opportunities for students

With a generous gift of $250,000 from Gerri and Rich Wong, the McCourt School is creating opportunities for graduate students to engage with practitioners, gain vital research…

March 3, 2023

Research
Student Experience
Tech & Public Policy

Misinformation lost in the 2022 midterms: What was different? 

The lead up to the 2022 Midterm Elections was fraught with discussions about misinformation, conspiracy theories and the role social media companies play in limiting the spread…

December 5, 2022

Alumni News
Discovery & Impact
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McCourt alumna wins big in Georgia House race

Born in Jordan, Ruwa Romman moved to Georgia with her family shortly before terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. Romman was just 8 years old, and as a…

November 28, 2022

Alumni News
General News

Political pollster to professor: How a McCourt alum is paying it forward

Alex Lundry (MPP‘04), the inaugural recipient of the Whittington Scholarship , was drawn to what was then the Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI) for its …

October 31, 2022

Discovery & Impact
Student Experience

GU Politics student group represents Georgetown at Biden School conference on civility

A group of Georgetown students representing the McCourt School’s Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) was invited to attend the inaugural National Student…

May 2, 2022

Discovery & Impact
General News

Six winners and losers from Biden’s first State of the Union

President Joe Biden used his first State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for his…

March 2, 2022

Discovery & Impact
General News

Inside the State of the Union Address

The annual State of the Union (SOTU) Address is considered to be the commander-in-chief’s largest captivated television audience of the year, typically tens of millions of…

February 28, 2022