April 2, 2024Members of the Schar School’s International Relations Policy Task Force embarked on an annual spring break trip to the United States-Mexico border.
April 2, 2024A Schar School scholar argues that the terminology used to describe crimes against humanity need to change. Words matter and precision is important.
April 2, 2024Aspiring diplomats and future Foreign Service professionals are invited to a one-on-one information session on April 15. Register before the April 5 deadline to begin your journey to represent America around the world.
April 1, 2024A roundup of recent media appearances by Schar School faculty, students, and staff for March 25th - 29th, 2024.
April 1, 2024Are we meta yet? A book about AI is cowritten by AI, along with Schar School associate professor Alan R. Shark, who teaches technology policy in government. AI created that intimidating cover, too.
March 27, 2024Three former intelligence leaders focused their experience and expertise on a familiar subject in a panel discussion called “Assessing Russia.”
March 27, 2024Upon his retirement, Schar School Professor Emeritus Bill Schneider, formerly with CNN, endowed a public policy scholarship. The catch: Recipients’ parents are without a college degree—as were his.
March 26, 2024The Schar School’s Jeremy Mayer traveled to China to deliver an update on the U.S. presidential election. But his main reason for the trip was to deliver historic documents collected when his grandmother was consort to the last empress of China.
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March 25, 2024
Expertise by Schar School faculty and students is in demand. Here are some recent news items about how they are contributing to conversations throughout the region.
March 25, 2024Catherine Read is the first woman and first Mason graduate (BA government and politics ’84) to be mayor of Fairfax City, Va., the university’s hometown, and she isn’t shy about touting a university she says helped teach her how to think critically. Want to know why it’s good to “disrupt the system,” why it’s important to get more women into policy-making decisions, and why our educational system doesn’t reward bold ideas? Read tells you.
