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Two longtime departing local politicians, Arlington’s Libby Garvey and Alexandria’s Justin Wilson, will discuss the status and future of regional politics at Mason Square on October 9. The Schar School’s Alan Abramson will present an overview of the discussion.

The Hayden Center hosted the Virginia opening of War Game, a chilling documentary that asks the question: What would happen if a presidential candidate had enough military might to challenge a losing election?

The Schar School’s P3 Policy Center presents a multipanel symposium exploring new developments in the public-private partnership field.

Fourteen local high school students spent a week in August learning about renewable energy from electrical engineering professor Liling Huang and a host of local energy engineering professionals. At the end of the week, the students presented their work, a model town powered entirely by clean energy.  

The Innovation Commercialization Assistance Program (ICAP) is helping inventors and entrepreneurs like Jourdan Saunders, CEO of The Resource Key, bring their innovations and technologies to market.

A $1 million grant from the U.S. Senate will create a new interdisciplinary center at George Mason designed to help Virginia small businesses take advantage of advances in artificial intelligence. Read who is behind this first-of-its-kind center and how it will work.

A weeklong residential program to bring undergraduate students together with women leaders in politics and business just concluded. See who they met and what they learned.

In a Schar School exclusive, the popular Trump trials podcast “Jack: A Special Counsel Podcast” was taped with a moderator and a special guest before a live audience. Here’s what happened.

See photos of Schar School events that closed out the spring semester.

For developed countries, reliable energy is just that—reliable. But in a changing world, how long can that last? A major conference at Mason’s Schar School will focus on new demands, new infrastructure, and new policies for energy of all types.