Buzz McClain

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 Assistant Professor Saskia Popescu named one of the top 50 pandemic experts to pay attention to.

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.

The Schar School’s Louise Shelley and engineering professor Edward Huang land a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how to disrupt illicit trade in drugs.

The founding dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government, Mark J. Rozell, has been reappointed for a second term.

The Biodefense program at the Schar School has long been described as merging the policy side of the field with the technical. There could be no better example of that description in practice than the career of national security expert Daniel M. Gerstein.

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.

By his own admission, Schar School Public Policy PhD candidate Muhammad Salar Khan had never ingested marijuana, but in the course of performing a study of the effects of taxes imposed on legal marijuana sales in Oregon, Khan communicated with more than 40 who not only ingest it but use it as a commodity.

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.