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Discovery & Impact

Alum Devotes Her Policy Acumen to Hawaiian Entrepreneurs

Brittany Heyd (JD/MPP ‘13) was on the fast track for a high-powered law firm job when the lure of the startup world pulled her in another direction. For the past two years,…

September 23, 2019

Discovery & Impact
Student Experience

McCourt Student Launched Free Tax Prep Service Led by D.C. High School Students

Seeing an opportunity to help D.C. taxpayers, Peter Nouhan (MPP ’19) founded a program to train Washington, D.C., high school students to facilitate free tax preparation for-…

September 9, 2019

Student Experience

McCourt Supports Students Working in Development, Social Impact, and Climate Change

The McCourt School is thrilled to support our students through the Fund for Student Excellence, which provides financial assistance to students who are advancing their careers…

May 22, 2019

Discovery & Impact
Student Experience

Seven McCourters Tackle Migration in Policy Simulation

The McCourt School was proud to serve as a host site for the 2019 NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition. This year’s competition—a partnership between the University…

March 26, 2019

Discovery & Impact
Student Experience

Students address community health, food insecurityand other issues affecting low-income Washingtonians

The 5th annual Georgetown Public Policy Challenge tasked graduate students with developing innovative policy solutions to address local or regional issues in the Washington, D.C.…

March 20, 2019

Student Experience

McCourt Students Tackle Automation and Job Loss at New America

Automation, and the threat it poses to workers, has become an incredibly salient issue for policy experts in the U.S. and around the world. Among the think tanks tackling this…

January 22, 2019

Discovery & Impact
Student Experience

McCourt Student Receives Gates Foundation Grant For Venezuelan Refugee Work

There is an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. As the Venezuelan government clings to power and denies that its people are sick, starving, and saddled with an increasingly…

January 22, 2019

Student Experience

McCourt Student Leads First Sample-Based Election Observation in U.S. History

Ben Mindes (MPP ‘19) founded the Observe D.C. initiative to provide the first representative data about the quality of election administration in Washington, D.C. Observers…

November 30, 2018

Student Experience

Whittington Scholar Passionate About Environmental Justice

The Whittington Scholarship is a prestigious award given to a second-year McCourt student who excels academically and displays a strong commitment to serving their community.…

October 22, 2018

Student Experience

Zezhou Cai Named Exceptional Masters Student at Graduate Student Awards

On April 6, 2018 the Office of Graduate Enrichment, Graduate Student Government, McCourt School of Public Policy, and the McDonough School of Business hosted the third annual…

April 19, 2018