Schar School of Policy and Government

Nereyda Sevilla believes she has a way to change how authorities and the public respond to disease outbreaks perceived to be transmitted by air travel. If she’s right, it could potentially save billions of dollars in misdirected federal and state money and give millions of air passengers more precise information about infections.

Last month we lost the Honorable James Scott (1938-2017), also known as “Landslide Jim.” Mr. Scott served on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for 14 years and in the Virginia House of Delegates for 22 years. More importantly for us and for Mason, he received his MPA in 1982 and helped establish the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

George Mason University has been named a “Best Value College” by Forbes, which prominently noted the university’s position in the highest tier of research universities as assessed by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

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.