Archive: In the News item

• COVID-19 Crisis Brings Out the Best and Worst in State and Local Leadership

  During the pandemic crisis, state and local leaders have had to compete for medical equipment and make hard economic decisions. Meryl Chertoff, executive director of the Georgetown Project on State a

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• Georgetown Physicist Helps Create New N95 Mask Decontamination Guidelines

  On April 1, 2020 a team of 60 scientists, engineers, students and clinicians including a Georgetown physicist unveiled a website that synthesizes the scientific literature about mask decontamination,

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• Georgetown Emerging Technology Experts Help Create Online Coronavirus Repository

  The White House is tapping the expertise of researchers from Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) to determine how data and open research can be used to address the COVID-1

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• SFS On Topic: Coronavirus

  Since its emergence in Wuhan, China in December 2019, the COVID-19 novel coronavirus disease has spread to 143 countries around the world. With over 150,000 cases and more than 5,500 deaths worldwide

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• Professor Edwin Park Publishes Article Arguing for Increase in Federal Medicaid Matching Rate

  Initially published by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, Professor Edwin Park has called for an increase in the Federal Medicaid Matching Rate to be included as part of any economic

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• CMS Releases FAQ on COVID-19 for Medicaid and CHIP

  The coronavirus pandemic is a stark reminder of the critical role that Medicaid and CHIP play in assuring the health of Americans, particularly during health emergencies, natural disasters, and econo

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• Mellon Foundation Grant Awards $1 Million to Prison Scholars Program

  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's seeks to strengthen, promote, and defend the centrality of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse, fair, and democratic so

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• “Ethics of the Future,” a panel featuring Ethics Lab Leaders at the 2019 Tech Summit

  Artificial Intelligence is Accurate, But Still Biased. The panel, which took place on December 4, 2019 at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's (CHCI) Tech Summit 2.0, featured Roslyn Dock

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• Uwe S. Brandes Appointed Chair of D.C. Commission on Climate Change

  Uwe Brandes, Georgetown professor of the practice, Faculty Director of the Urban and Regional Planning Program and the Global Cities Initiative, and affiliated faculty in the Walsh School of Foreign

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• Sandra Jackson honored as the 2020 John Thompson Jr. Legacy Award recipient

  Sandra Jackson, the Executive Director of the House of Ruth, was awarded the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award during the 2020 Let Freedom Ring Celebration at the Kennedy Center on Martin Lut

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