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LEAD 2017 Ties Research to Policy and Practice to Improve the Lives of Youth

McCourt’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) hosted hundreds of researchers, advocates, and policy experts from across the country for the 2017 LEAD Conference focusing…

April 11, 2017

Discovery & Impact

China Makes Progress, U.S., Other Countries Fail to Discourage Fossil Fuels

The average tax on gasoline throughout the world is declining, meaning that governments are collectively failing to discourage fossil fuel consumption, according to a new study…

January 9, 2017

University News

Georgetown Effort Advises Next Administration on Driving Government Innovation

Nearly 300 scholars and leaders from across the public, private, nonprofit and philanthropic sectors gathered at Georgetown on to explore how the next presidential administration…

October 7, 2016

Discovery & Impact

Immigrants to America Become Less Healthy Over Time, Professor Says

The longer immigrants stay in America, the less healthy they become, according to a recently published study in Economics and Human Biology by McCourt School of Public Policy…

September 19, 2016

Discovery & Impact

Professor Adriana Kugler to Research Unemployment Insurance Effects

McCourt School professor Adriana Kugler will study the effect of unemployment insurance benefits on match quality and job mobility, thanks to a grant from the Washington Center…

August 8, 2016

Discovery & Impact

East Africa Road Safety Project Gets $3 Million Grant

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded Georgetown researchers a $3 million grant to expand a road safety intervention project in East Africa,…

July 12, 2016

Discovery & Impact

Report Shows Huge D.C. Health Disparities, Makes Recommendations

A new Georgetown report that will be submitted to the District of Columbia Commission on African American Affairs reveals sobering statistics about health disparities in the.…

June 28, 2016

Discovery & Impact

Georgetown Researchers to Evaluate, Transform Education in Tanzania

Georgetown's McCourt School is the lead institution on a study to evaluate an ambitious reform in education in Tanzania, where basic reading and math skills have plummeted in…

June 23, 2016

Discovery & Impact

CPNL to Address Racial Wealth Divide in New Initiative

Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership (CPNL) is partnering with the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and JP Morgan Chase & Co. in…

February 12, 2016

Discovery & Impact

Research to Narrow College Information Gap for Hispanic Students

Analysis of 137 majors, degrees, unemployment and earnings translated into.…

October 23, 2015