- Fri, 02/15/2019 - 10:06
Nearly 70 students visited 19 would-be employers on Wednesday during the Graduate Career and Internship Fair at the Arlington Campus.
- Wed, 02/13/2019 - 11:42
While other students spent the middle of January combating the worst of winter weather and dealing with post-holiday blahs, a cadre of 12 Schar School students basked in the dry sunshine of Vietnam for eight days and learned about the country’s fate in a rapidly changing Southeast Asia.
- Wed, 02/06/2019 - 12:59
At the Schar School of Policy and Government we are often asked, “What is political science?” For the definitive answer, we turned to—who else?—political science professors who study, interpret, and teach the art of governing. Here is what they had to say.
- Thu, 01/31/2019 - 16:26
As many in the audience of nearly 600 regional business leaders already knew, 2018 was a pretty good year for the Washington, D.C., regional economy.
- Wed, 01/30/2019 - 16:50
Resisting dishonest populism is not just a policy imperative for serious Democrats but also a political imperative for 2020.
- Thu, 01/10/2019 - 11:34
A delegation of Schar School of Policy and Government professors began a collaboration with Costa Rican government officials in November to research that country’s growing transnational network of organ trafficking.
- Wed, 12/19/2018 - 14:07
When Michigan native Keith Waters decided to go for his PhD in public policy, he turned down schools that offered him scholarships and chose to attend the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University,
- Wed, 12/19/2018 - 14:01
The immediate and lasting effects of the 2018 midterm elections on U.S. immigration policy was the subject of a late November panel discussion hosted by the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) at George Mason University and moderated by Schar School Assistant Professor Justin Gest, author of several well-received books on modern immigration...
- Fri, 12/14/2018 - 09:16
Virginia’s two senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner (both Ds), discussed fiscal issues, trade policies, security clearances, energy, Amazon’s arrival, and other topics important to the Commonwealth in an hour-long discussion hosted by the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University on Thursday morning. The conversation, call...
- Wed, 12/12/2018 - 15:29
Congressional oversight committees, whistleblowers, inspectors general, and lawyers—so many lawyers—were the topics of conversation Monday night when the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at the Schar School of Policy and Government presented a panel of former justice and intelligence veterans, and one...