July 12, 2023Schar School 2007 alumna made news—again—this week when she was named Restaurateur of the Year by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. Find out how a Master of Public Policy degree helped Rose Previte earn this distinction.
No U.S. city is prepared for the casualties, chaos and destruction that would follow a nuclear detonation, write Schar School of Policy and Government professor Gregory Koblentz and Mary Sproull, a doctoral candidate in the biodefense program and a biologist with the Radiation Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
Emergency preparedness is a constantly changing field, dedicated to being, literally, ready for anything. Whether it is an act of terrorism or a natural disaster such as a hurricane, having the necessary people and resources in place is key to effectively keeping a population safe.
Noted George Mason University economist Stephen Fuller updated his 2015 regional economic roadmap for an invited group of 250 business and policy leaders at an inaugural conference hosted by the Schar School’s Stephen S. Fuller Institute for Research on the Washington Region’s Economic Future on Wednesday, Oct. 4.
Say this for David Kanos: He thinks big. The George Mason University senior hopes one day to be an ambassador from his native Nigeria to the United States, United Nations or China. Perhaps he could hold public office in Nigeria, he said. Perhaps he could even be his country’s president.
Viewers across Virginia tuning in to Tuesday night’s televised debate between gubernatorial candidates Ralph Northam (D) and Ed Gillespie (R) heard a “civil and substantive” discussion of issues important to the commonwealth, said Mark Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce joined to present the second of three televised gubernatorial debates between Ed Gillespie (R) and incumbent Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, at Capital One Bank in McLean, VA.
Ten years ago, a child in sub-Saharan Africa died from malaria every 30 seconds, but largely due to the introduction of insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets, that number has decreased to one child every two minutes. The United Nation Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign has been a critical driver of that change, and George Mason University alumna Margaret Reilly McDonnell is the program’s director.
September 6, 2017George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce are presenting the second of three televised gubernatorial debates between Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at Capital One Bank in McLean.
State and local government leaders in Virginia now have a guidebook on how to use social media to reach their constituents, thanks to a capstone project undertaken by master’s students at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government.