Schar School of Policy and Government

An armed conflict has escalated between Armenia and Azerbaijan. A former ambassador to the region explains why.

The lure of a study abroad opportunity convinced the student body vice president to study at the Schar School of Policy and Government. Oxford never happened but interning on Capitol Hill did.

Schar School alumna Rose Polar, MPP ’18, wins a diversity and culture award from her company, the consultancy LMI.

A new Schar School study shows how government reimbursement for living-donor kidney transplants benefits all those involved.

Since the early 1990s, Congress has mandated that the State Department produce a report on global terrorism. Meet the Schar School team that is doing that.

When Haider Semaisim works on the federally mandated database of global incidents of terrorism with George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, he does so with pride. It is not only an educational and professional endeavor, he said. “It’s personal.”

The global COVID-19 crisis will require scientists and scholars who are educated and trained to take on the world’s most dangerous problems. The Biodefense program at the Schar School creates leaders in the field. Look for their stories on this page in coming days.

One of the highlights of the semester for the graduate and undergraduate students who make up the research team at the Schar School’s Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center (GTTAC) was a meeting with Russell Travers, acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, December 4.

More than 200 bankers, builders, and business leaders from around the Washington, D.C., region were witness on Tuesday morning to Stephen Fuller handing off to his successor the crystal ball he reportedly uses when making regional economic forecasts.

Giving isn’t what it used to be. Charitable fundraising has undergone significant changes over the past three decades.