Schar School of Policy and Government

The Washington Business Journal’s annual ranking of influential local business leaders list, the Power 100, includes Stephen Fuller, director of the Stephen S. Fuller Institute at the Schar School of Policy and Government.

The second annual Tolchin Symposium at Mason’s Schar School of Policy and Government in Arlington on Oct. 17 featured a panel of women in powerful positions discussing why more women are not in positions of power.

Retired four-star Air Force General Michael V. Hayden has been director of the National Security Agency, the principal deputy director of National Intelligence and director of the CIA.

No matter your political perspective, the first nine months of the Trump administration have been one of fast-moving turmoil. But has this period been dangerous, as some suggest?

As another health care reform proposal wends its bumpy way through Congress, George Mason University professor Jeremy Mayer has identified what he believes is the real reason health care in America is the most expensive in the world: cost pushers.

Schar School 2007 alumna made news—again—this week when she was named Restaurateur of the Year by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. Find out how a Master of Public Policy degree helped Rose Previte earn this distinction.

No U.S. city is prepared for the casualties, chaos and destruction that would follow a nuclear detonation, write Schar School of Policy and Government professor Gregory Koblentz and Mary Sproull, a doctoral candidate in the biodefense program and a biologist with the Radiation Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

Emergency preparedness is a constantly changing field, dedicated to being, literally, ready for anything. Whether it is an act of terrorism or a natural disaster such as a hurricane, having the necessary people and resources in place is key to effectively keeping a population safe.

Noted George Mason University economist Stephen Fuller updated his 2015 regional economic roadmap for an invited group of 250 business and policy leaders at an inaugural conference hosted by the Schar School’s Stephen S. Fuller Institute for Research on the Washington Region’s Economic Future on Wednesday, Oct. 4.

Say this for David Kanos: He thinks big. The George Mason University senior hopes one day to be an ambassador from his native Nigeria to the United States, United Nations or China. Perhaps he could hold public office in Nigeria, he said. Perhaps he could even be his country’s president.