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- University News
Leading Social Policy Researcher to Join McCourt
Gordon Berlin, the former President of MDRC, and a leading innovator in the field of public problem solving, will join the McCourt School on January 1, 2020, as a research…
December 3, 2019
- Discovery & Impact
Bridging Harlem’s Digital Divide
LabGov Georgetown researches innovative ways to help people who live in cities enjoy and utilize shared living spaces and resources. Learn how the Harlem E-Project is working…
December 2, 2019
- Discovery & Impact
Helping Doctors Care for DC’s Most Vulnerable
For more than 15 years, the McCourt School’s National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health has been helping Washington, DC’s pediatric medical providers better…
November 24, 2019
- University News
FutureEd, Georgetown PPI Host Event on D.C. School Choice
FutureEd, an education think tank at the McCourt School, and the Georgetown University D.C. Public Policy Initiative hosted a policy forum Nov. 18 about the common lottery system…
November 22, 2019
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- University News
Sheila Foster Installed as the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy
Foster, who has a joint appointment in the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Georgetown Law Center, is an expert in the areas of property, land use, environmental justice…
October 11, 2019