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- Alumni
- Discovery & Impact
McCourt Alumni Bring Innovative Approach to Development Economics
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…
December 9, 2019
- Alumni
- University News
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
- University News
FutureEd, Georgetown PPI Host Event on D.C. School Choice
FutureEd, an education think tank at the McCourt School, and the Georgetown University D.C. Public Policy Initiative hosted a policy forum Nov. 18 about the common lottery system…
November 22, 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
- Student Experience
One-Stop Shop: Students Can Register to Vote While Choosing Classes
For the first time in Georgetown history, students will have the opportunity to register to vote – almost exactly a year before the 2020 presidential election – at the same…
November 5, 2019
- Alumni
- Student Experience
Police Officer to Policy Student
Sergeant Howard Singer (MPM'17), the communications advisor to the First Deputy Police Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, is leading a new initiative to…
November 4, 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