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271 Articles
- 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