Schar School of Policy and Government

Wayne Lavender, a Schar School of Policy and Government graduate from the PhD in Public Policy program, is the executive director at the Foundation 4 Orphans, where he builds homes and educates hundreds of orphans in the African country of Mozambique.

The number—19—didn’t quite make a platoon, but it was more than a squad when the first two cohorts of Marine Corps officers earning master’s degrees at the Schar School of Policy and Government met in October for the first time over lunch at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, Va.

How Democrats won the majority in the Virginia House and Senate and what Republicans intend to do to recover from November 5th’s losses were among the topics of discussion Tuesday night during the seventh “After Virginia Votes,” a conversation among representatives of both dominant political parties.

The sudden resignation this week of Bolivian president Evo Morales was a positive turn of events for Yasser Aburdene, who had been spending his evenings this fall at the Bolivian embassy in Washington, D.C., along with others protesting Morales’ questionable election victory.

The important relationship between nuclear energy and nuclear security will be explored in a public conversation between leaders of key nuclear agencies on Thursday, November 14 at 2 p.m. at the Schar School of Policy and Government in Arlington, Va.

Layla M. Hashemi, a Public Policy PhD candidate at the Schar School of Policy and Government, is spending the week at the 2019 Next Generation Symposium hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based Women in International Security (WIIS).

Members of the nation’s intelligence community made no secret of their appreciation for Schar School of Policy and Government Distinguished Visiting Professor Michael V. Hayden Wednesday night at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

Debra LaPrevotte has worked tirelessly to end wildlife trafficking in Africa. The Schar School of Policy and Government’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) welcomed the former FBI special agent and current international corruption investigator at the Sentry Group for a Tuesday afternoon discussion on how to stop traff...

Schar School of Policy and Government professor Maurice Kugler coauthored "School Vouchers, Labor Markets, and Vocational Education” with Harvard University professor Michael Kremer, the 2019 Economic Nobel Prize winner for pioneering the implementation of randomized control trials to evaluate the impact of policy programs in international devel...