Tameka Porter, a recent George Mason University PhD graduate, studies the effects of affirmative action at elite universities. It’s a timely area of research as the public debate over preferential admissions policies continues.
Schar School students at all levels – undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral – tackle the challenging problems of our time both in the classroom and beyond. Not only do doctoral students team with faculty members on their research projects, such as those led by Eric McGlinchey, Jim Pfiffner and Naoru Koizumi, they convene conferences to discuss their own developing research.
The brinkmanship in the federal government is over, at least until September, as Congressional negotiators reached an agreement to fund the government through that month.
Aiming high was just what George Mason University’s Jasmine Renderos had mind when she first began entertaining ideas about serving in the Foreign Service following graduation.
Joe Russell might just run for public office one day. For sure he will be an advocate for civil and voting rights.
Dr. Justin Gest, assistant professor and expert in minority political behavior, embodies the Schar School’s commitment to the pursuit of academic research directly relevant to the world’s policymakers. Two of his most recent publications illustrate well how our faculty have a foot in the realms of theory and practice.
There’s a long list of Syrian officials with blood on their hands -- but the culpability goes all the way to the top.
Within months of President Barack Obama taking the oath of office in January 2009, he was confronted by a novel strain of H1N1 influenza spreading throughout North America and then the world.
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Last fall, over a single week in the battle for Aleppo, 96 Syrian children were killed. Across Syria in 2015 and 2016, at least 1,200 children were killed (but possibly many more).
The United States Government invests billions of dollars to advance economic development and civil society in post-Soviet Central Asia. Despite this commitment, public perception of the U.S. in these countries is in decline.