Zach Goble was excited about the opportunity to attend an ASM conference and all of the information he had the opportunity to gain.
The Symposium on 21st Century Threats and Integrated Emergency Operations was held December 12, 2016, at George Mason University’s Founders Hall, which brought together more than 300 public safety professionals from across Commonwealth of Virginia and the National Capital Region. The goal of the Symposium was to provide a venue for public safety professionals to discuss best practices and lessons learned for the first responder community.
Mark King received a Master’s degree from George Mason University’s Organizational Development and Knowledge Management (ODKM) program in 2015, but he’s not only a proud Mason alumnus. He’s also a newly elected member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
It was the collapse of the job market in the early 1980s that put Terry Clower—who spends his days studying the vagaries of employment and other economic dynamics—on the path to the position he holds now as director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University.
Paul DeMaio is kind of a big deal. As the principal for MetroBike, LLC, he is a successful businessman, a global authority on bike-sharing programs, an environmental activist, avid cyclist, health advocate, blogger, and – as Capital Bikeshare’s Arlington program manager – he may even be the man responsible for how you got to work today.
Thousands of commuters may wonder if there’s enough parking at the new Wiehle-Reston East stop on Metro’s Silver Line, but few, says Jeong Yun Kweun, will think about the public-private partnership that made it possible. Kweun, a PhD student at George Mason University’s School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, is working on a study that may have impact on parking at all the stops, including those not yet built.
“Over the last 10 years, I’ve worked with college students making a difference in their local, national and global communities through experiences that defy the bounds of campus,” says Mary Denlinger, the new coordinator of George Mason University’s Global Politics Fellows program (GPF). “I’m thrilled to continue this work with the Global Politics Fellows!”
It took six years—eight, if you count the two to get the master’s degree—for Craig Wiener to receive his PhD in biodefense from George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government.
The tattered and stained clothes on the table belonged to a young girl; the soiled garments, broken hair accessories and still-tied shoes are all that is left of her. The items were found buried in her grave, a grave she shared with a second person, most likely a relative.
Two students from George Mason University’s Biodefense program have been named Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity (ELBI) for 2016 by the UPMC Center for Health Security, the leading think tank in the United States in the fields of biodefense and global health security. Francisco Cruz, a 2015 graduate of the master’s program in Biodefense, and Siddha Hover, a current PhD student in Biodefense, have earned this highly competitive fellowship.