On the heels of a first-ever conference tackling the emerging and dangerous issue of trade-based money laundering (TBML), the U.S. Senate Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Committee has earmarked $2 million in assessment funding for FY 2020.
Nearly 100 years ago Oxford University began a degree program that combined the study of philosophy, political science, and economics—PPE for short. The idea was to create a course of study that included elements of traditional classical education with subjects that would be immediately applicable to the contemporary world.
The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at the Schar School of Policy and Government presented its first event of the 2019-2020 academic year on September 16 at George Mason University’s Arlington campus auditorium.
Becca Cooper has traveled the world supporting young refugee girls through after-school sports and education programs.
Marisol Maddox spent three weeks this summer aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker traveling inside the Arctic Circle. She was prepared for minus-20-with-wind-chill temperatures and brisk 20-plus-hours-a-day sunshine, but the cold temperatures never came.
More than 200 representatives from the growing fields of blockchain and cryptocurrency—including policymakers, industry executives, and academic leaders—attended a weekend-long conference at George Mason University’s Arlington Campus on September 14-15 to hear 57 speakers and panelists discussing “The Future of Money, Governance, and the Law.”
It’s official: According to the 2019 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Schar School of Policy and Government’s undergraduate and graduate programs in public administration are ranked No. 11 in the United States.
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) will deliver a keynote address tackling international trade-based money laundering, an issue that, Cassidy said, “is America’s biggest national security threat that almost no one is paying attention to.”
A Schar School study released earlier this year drew national attention, and for good reason: The research examined the rates of innovation by immigrants in the U.S. and found that native-born entrepreneurs were, in effect, being demolished by their immigrant-owned competition.
On the April day Camden Layton assumed his role as student body president, the campus was gearing up for a major townhall meeting with students and administrators addressing pressing concerns regarding campus sexual assault and Title IX policies.