Schar School of Policy and Government

Some 500 audience members filled the ballroom of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night, despite chilly rain and a Game 7 of the baseball World Series featuring the city’s own team.

New entries in the Almanac of Virginia Politics include election-relevant material in key races throughout the Commonwealth. Voters can find up-to-date information on candidates and campaign activities on the closely watched, hotly contested races in the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate.

The “ah-ha” moment came during a conversation in London’s SkyBar during a break at a 2015 investment conference.

A partnership with the City of Fairfax has brought a flock of dockless electric scooters to the George Mason University Fairfax Campus.

Marisol Maddox spent three weeks this summer aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker traveling inside the Arctic Circle. She was prepared for minus-20-with-wind-chill temperatures and brisk 20-plus-hours-a-day sunshine, but the cold temperatures never came.

Until earlier this year, the Arlington Campus of George Mason University was called Founders Hall. Within our school, we like to think that “Founders” referred to the four public policy professors and administrators who created what is now the Schar School of Policy and Government.

The uniformed officers and plainclothes support staff members of the George Mason University Department of Police and Public Safety can be found patrolling campus, keeping an eye on large events—and studying alongside students in the classroom.

The Institute Aims to Become a Global Hub for Research and Training to Fight Multi-Trillion Dollar Illegal Economy

For the second year in a row, Schar School of Policy and Government professors spent a week in South Korea in late May, delivering research to political leadership, professors, and students in a well-attended symposium addressing international security.

The Schar School hat continues its global journey this week as Associate Professor Stefan Toepler dons his under the palm trees of Maui, Hawaii.