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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

University News

A Q&A with Professor Barbara Schone

Barbara Schone is Teaching Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the McCourt School of Public Policy. She also serves as the Faculty Director of the Master of…

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

Alumni
Discovery & Impact

McCourt Alum Demonstrates What Data Science Can Do for Public Policy

Since graduating from the McCourt School of Public Policy, Alex Engler, MPP ’13, has made it his mission to improve policy and governance through the use of data.…

October 20, 2019

University News

Latest Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service Battleground Poll to be Released Tuesday

Pollsters Ed Goeas and Celinda Lake to Discuss Results in Media Briefing at Debate…

October 15, 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