Schar School of Policy and Government

The note appeared on Wilberg Rivera’s phone while he was eating at Ike’s on the Fairfax Campus. It was the White House, informing the George Mason University freshman that he’d been accepted into a paid internship position and that he needed to schedule a background check.

While Hillary Clinton was losing Montana by more than 23 points, Steve Bullock was elected governor running as a progressive Democrat. What can the rest of us learn from Montana?

The Honorable Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera, the 47th President of the Republic of Costa Rica, was on the Arlington Campus recently for two events sponsored by the Schar School. President Solís’s academic background and interest in history were evident in the talk he presented to Schar School faculty, staff, alumni, and students; participants from other elements of the Mason community; and individuals from our broader Arlington neighborhood.

The United Kingdom will officially leave the European Union on March 29, 2019.

On March 9, the Schar School of Policy and Government hosted a research workshop exploring organ transplant policy. Convening scholars from both within and outside Mason, participants explored new avenues for research into the ethics, security, and disparity issues surrounding organ transplants. Topics ranged from organ trafficking and the implications of donor compensation to methodological modeling and trafficking prevention.

The Trump administration’s new executive order that redefined an immigration and travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries is designed to avoid the chaos of the first travel ban in late January. Among the new provisions: Iraqi citizens have been dropped from the embargo.

Zach Goble was excited about the opportunity to attend an ASM conference and all of the information he had the opportunity to gain.

The Symposium on 21st Century Threats and Integrated Emergency Operations was held December 12, 2016, at George Mason University’s Founders Hall, which brought together more than 300 public safety professionals from across Commonwealth of Virginia and the National Capital Region. The goal of the Symposium was to provide a venue for public safety professionals to discuss best practices and lessons learned for the first responder community.

Mark King received a Master’s degree from George Mason University’s Organizational Development and Knowledge Management (ODKM) program in 2015, but he’s not only a proud Mason alumnus. He’s also a newly elected member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

It was the collapse of the job market in the early 1980s that put Terry Clower—who spends his days studying the vagaries of employment and other economic dynamics—on the path to the position he holds now as director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University.