By his own admission, Schar School Public Policy PhD candidate Muhammad Salar Khan had never ingested marijuana, but in the course of performing a study of the effects of taxes imposed on legal marijuana sales in Oregon, Khan communicated with more than 40 who not only ingest it but use it as a commodity.
As we begin the first semester of 2020, we acknowledge the contributions of four longtime Schar School stalwarts who retired in 2019.
Andrew Hughes Hallett, Schar School University Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Economics, passed away December 31, 2019, after a seven-year battle with cancer. He was 72.
December 18, 2019One of the highlights of the semester for the graduate and undergraduate students who make up the research team at the Schar School’s Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center (GTTAC) was a meeting with Russell Travers, acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, December 4.
Public Policy PhD candidate Layla M. Hashemi has had a busy year. In addition to doing all the things she needs to do to complete her degree, Hashemi has been invited to participate in several high-profile panel discussions in her area of research: antiquities trafficking and its links to terrorism.
More than 200 bankers, builders, and business leaders from around the Washington, D.C., region were witness on Tuesday morning to Stephen Fuller handing off to his successor the crystal ball he reportedly uses when making regional economic forecasts.