February 22, 2024Five members of the Schar School of Policy and Government’s international and national security faculty took the stage to take questions from in-person and virtual audience members about current events in intelligence. There was plenty to talk about.
February 21, 2024Schar School senior Maaz Abbasi juggles full-time studies while working as a teaching assistant and legislative intern.
February 20, 2024She’s helped 450 young families achieve higher education goals since 2010. Now Nicole Lynn Lewis, MPP ’06, is Washingtonian of the Year.
February 15, 2024A new study by the Center for Regional Analysis shows the inventory of affordable workforce housing will increase if new arenas are built in Alexandria.
February 14, 2024Six whirlwind months as a visiting professor on a Fulbright fellowship at the Schar School helped sinologist Gundumella Venkat Raman teach, learn, and make connections in Washington, D.C.
February 13, 2024Two Mason faculty members received year-long grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), part of 260 grants worth $33.8 million from the NEH this year for humanities projects across the country.
January 24, 2024Mark J. Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government, and Jeremy D. Mayer, associate professor, attribute the increased success of Black Democratic candidates for statewide office in parts of the South between 2017 and 2022 to demographic changes and an increased willingness of whites to vote for Black candidates running on progressive platforms. Rozell and Mayer use five case studies in their award-winning book to argue that the conditions that precipitated these electoral successes are likely to continue in the future.
January 24, 2024In this podcast, Schar School associate professor Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley discusses why policy makers and security experts tend to underestimate just how hard it is for rogue governments and nonstate actors to acquire biological weapons.
January 23, 2024Schar School associate professor Jennifer N. Victor highlights the costs, in terms of lost employee time and an erosion of trust, that the government incurs when Congress comes close to not meeting deadlines for funding the government.
January 12, 2024In a discussion among leading public intellectuals about existential threats to American identity and governance, Goldstone attributes political fractures to economic causes, particularly the failure of wages to keep pace with national output.
January 9, 2024With his Minerva Project, Distinguished University Professor J.P. Singh wants to understand “how preferences or interests from society, business, or other government actors shape policy in terms of what countries are doing with their national AI infrastructures.”
January 5, 2024Schar School Professor and former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe cohosts a podcast, with 57 episodes through the end of 2023, on the investigation of President Donald Trump by the U.S. Department of Justice.
