Buzz McClain

After a long and successful career in public policy—despite little formal training in the field—T. Spike Terwilliger endows a PhD fellowship to better prepare future policy makers.

“Science nerd” U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) discusses technology and policy with Schar School students. He also asks them to come to Capitol Hill to help strengthen the “science and tech capacity of the House.”

Schar School biodefense graduate students were eager to look inside an operating BSL-3 lab, home of deadly pathogens. Can you say “geek out”?

George Mason University’s community is invited to a first-ever conversation about U.S. intelligence between two sitting CIA directors.

Seven-term U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly visited the Schar School’s Democracy Lab. Here’s what the students learned.

The Schar School’s Center for Regional Analysis and the Stephen S. Fuller Institute for Research on the Washington Region’s Economic Future will combine forces for one goal: To help business leaders and policy makers guide the Washington, D.C., region to a prosperous future.

An Estonian region rattles its saber and the rest of the world is shaken. Schar School students spent a day proposing solutions to this crisis. Happily, it was only a realistic simulation.

Once they earn their master’s degrees from the Schar School, these Marine officers will work in offices on Capitol Hill for a year. Two U.S. Representatives told them what to expect.

Schar School international security master’s student Sara Michels is the winner of an inaugural Vespa motor scooter contest. The essay competition is a collaboration among Mason, a regional Vespa nonprofit, and a local Vespa dealership.

How many international graduate student-athletes can there be? Master of Public Administration student Grace Furlong may be the only one at the Schar School.