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The U.S.’s skills gap is widening. Here’s how policy can help.

A recent report by the McCourt School’s Center on Education and the Workforce indicates that the U.S. economy is facing a growing skills shortage in critical occupations. Learn…

October 6, 2025

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Georgetown awards $100k to McCourt School associate professor addressing global learning crisis

Georgetown University’s Magis Prize recognizes associate professors who are making an extraordinary impact in their field with $100K in research. …

October 2, 2025

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Bringing AI to the Ballot Box: What Election Officials Need to Know

How can artificial intelligence transform election administration while preserving public trust? Recently the McCourt School partnered with The Elections Group and Discourse Labs…

September 11, 2025

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Better Government Lab to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Social Programs Designed to Improve Economic Mobility

In August, Arnold Ventures awarded Georgetown University’s McCourt School Associate Professor Sebastian Jilke and the Better Government Lab (BGL) an $800,000 grant to fund…

August 25, 2025

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Massive Data Institute drives community efforts to preserve at-risk data

The McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) is leading an interdisciplinary, community-driven effort to safeguard at-risk data critical to informing…

July 17, 2025

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Tech & Public Policy

TrueMedia finds new home at Georgetown’s McCourt School

As the information environment grows more complex and technological advances make it easier to manipulate content, knowing what’s true online has never been more difficult.…

April 16, 2025

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Tech & Public Policy

Tech & Public Policy program awards $1.5M in grants to 24 Georgetown researchers

The McCourt School’s Tech & Public Policy program (TPP) administers the annual Grants Program to support research that explores the role of emerging technologies in…

April 9, 2025

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McCourt School’s new research lab aims to reshape criminal justice policy

Founded by Dr. Andrea M. Headley , an assistant professor at the McCourt School and affiliate fellow at the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law, the…

April 8, 2025

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Massive Data Institute welcomes first cohort of non-resident affiliates to drive ethical data innovation

The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy proudly welcomes Dr. Eleni Antoniadou Dimokidis and Andrew Gamino-Cheong (C’15) to…

January 10, 2025

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McCourt School’s Massive Data Institute and Georgetown’s Ethics Lab partner to embed ethics into technical research

It seems only appropriate that the pilot partnership between the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) and Georgetown’s Ethics Lab began with an…

January 3, 2025