Schar School of Policy and Government

ARLINGTON, VA.—The inaugural winners of the Schar School Regional Leadership Awards have been announced and will be honored during a dinner for Northern Virginia’s elected officials on Monday, November 18, at the Schar School of Policy and Government on George Mason University’s Arlington campus.

The Schar School of Policy and Government is offering a rare opportunity to sample a range of courses across the Master’s in Transportation Policy, Operations, and Logistics program in an evening focusing on “Transportation in the City of the Future.”

Some 500 audience members filled the ballroom of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night, despite chilly rain and a Game 7 of the baseball World Series featuring the city’s own team.

Common Ground Committee (CGC), a nonprofit organization devoted to improving public discourse in politics, announced its eleventh public forum, which brings together former CIA Director General David Petraeus (Independent) and former Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor Susan Rice (Democrat).

As professors of public policy and law and longtime students of the problem of human trafficking, organized crime, and the sale of sexual services, our research suggests that passage of this law threatens our community.

A fundamental concern in international commerce is to understand the preferences of economic actors. This starting point about preferences then explains the performance of markets, and the paths of national and international economies.

In what is becoming an annual tradition, for the second year, a group of Schar School of Policy and Government faculty members, organized by Associate Professor Bassam Haddad, delivered presentations to students and fellow faculty members on their findings from recent visits to foreign countries.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a multi-institutional team led by Northwestern University a $9 million grant to launch the Sage project, a novel cyberinfrastructure created to exploit dramatic improvements in artificial intelligence technology.

Throughout history, political violence and protests have displaced millions of African people. Conflict in Africa has rarely been front page news in the U.S., but the security challenges facing civilians are dire and worsening.