Beth Peshkin, professor of oncology and senior genetic counselor at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, will be teaching a new course titled “Genomics, Precision Medicine and Public...
The McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center on Education and the Workforce found that over the last quarter century, around 70 percent of U.S. college students worked a paid job at some point in their...
George Akerlof, an economics professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy, released “Phishing for Phools,” co-written with Robert Shiller of Yale University, Sept. 22. The co-recipient of the...
The McCourt School of Public Policy will launch the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service this fall, led by former Democratic National Committee Director of Communications Mo Elleithee (SFS...
While questions of racial and socioeconomic diversity draw increased attention to universities around the country, ideological diversity has also undergone scrutiny. Although students have asserted...
Leaders and experts in the nonprofit and education sectors in Washington, D.C. discussed the persistent state of poverty in the District, as well as strategies to break the poverty cycle, in an event...
A group of five McCourt School of Public Policy graduate students won the McCourt Public Policy Challenge with their proposal AppSent, a mobile-based application designed to address low high-school graduation...
The Georgetown University Center for Research on Children in the United States received three new grants in support of its long-term investigation of the effects of universal pre-kindergarten, continuing...
A $10 million gift from Patricia and Jon Baker Sr. (CAS ’64) established the Baker Center for Leadership and Governance within the McCourt School of Public Policy on Tuesday. A nonpartisan effort, the...
The McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute awarded its first seed grants to four Georgetown University faculty research projects at the intersection of big data and public policy Sept....
Nobel Prize winner and economics scholar George Akerlof will join the faculty of the McCourt School of Public Policy in November, the university announced Sept. 23.
Akerlof, who currently serves...
Beginning with a record-breaking $100 million gift from Frank McCourt Jr. (CAS ’75) in September, this fiscal year was the most successful fundraising year in Georgetown’s 225-year history.
On...
