Buzz McClain

A little more than a year into a Virginia-oriented political polling partnership, George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and the Washington Post have expanded the scope of polling to include surveys on topics with national interest.

How countries invest in their own economic futures is key to raising the standard of living, developing innovation and avoiding internal and external conflicts, said Schar School of Policy and Government professor Zoltan Acs.

Researchers at George Mason University and Stanford University have teamed up to assess the risks, benefits and governance of the emerging field of genome editing. The study is the only unclassified, independent academic project of its kind, said Gregory Koblentz, director of George Mason’s Schar School of Policy and Government biodefense graduate program and co-principal investigator.