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Welcoming 2020 and 2021 New Faculty to the McCourt School Community

Get to know the new faculty members, from both 2020 and 2021, and learn more about their research and expertise below.  2021 New Faculty Members   Gaël Giraud Gaël Giraud…

August 26, 2021

Alumni
Discovery & Impact

Tackling the Tech Industry

When Kamila Saldanha (MPP ’19) was selected for the Twitter Public Policy Fellowship, she was thrilled but apprehensive. “While Twitter’s mission to serve the public…

November 20, 2020

Discovery & Impact

Five Years Is a Long Time In Politics

Mo Elleithee, the founding executive director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics), knows that to many people, politics can seem…

November 20, 2020

Discovery & Impact

Safer Homes: McCourt Students Use Data to Improve Housing Inspections in DC

When the Washington Post and Washington City Paper published well-documented stories about poor conditions in public housing — including broken doors, rat infestations and…

November 20, 2020

Discovery & Impact

Mining Social Media to Analyze Change

Being on social media can feel like falling down a rabbit hole into a complex and confusing world. Lisa Singh, research professor in McCourt’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) and…

November 20, 2020

Discovery & Impact

McCourt Faculty Document the Policy Failures of COVID-19 and the Opportunities Revealed

“We are still seeing over 1.4 million new unemployment claimants in all unemployment insurance programs every week, and over 26 million people continue to make claims seven…

November 20, 2020

Student Experience

A Wider View

If you took a snapshot of the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Master of Policy Management (MPM) program 10 years ago, you’d see a classroom full of mostly male, mostly…

November 20, 2020

Discovery & Impact
Research

Charting a New Course on a Widely Debated Education Issue

Standardized testing has been a cornerstone of public-school reform for a generation. Federal and state policymakers ramped up universal testing in core subjects to get a clearer…

November 20, 2020

Alumni
Discovery & Impact

A Passion For Public Policy

Lily Yue’s curiosity about the world and love of exploring new cultures fuels her passion for public policy. During a school trip to Israel in March 2019, she toured the…

November 20, 2020

Discovery & Impact
General News

McCourt’s Inaugural Virtual Summer Workshop Advances Students’ Professional Development

In March 2020, as the McCourt School shifted to a virtual learning environment, faculty and staff began reimagining ways to ensure the same level of high-quality educational and…

July 13, 2020