Buzz McClain

Marisol Maddox spent three weeks this summer aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker traveling inside the Arctic Circle. She was prepared for minus-20-with-wind-chill temperatures and brisk 20-plus-hours-a-day sunshine, but the cold temperatures never came.

For the second year in a row, Schar School of Policy and Government professors spent a week in South Korea in late May, delivering research to political leadership, professors, and students in a well-attended symposium addressing international security.

The Schar School of Policy and Government’s Public Administration program has been ranked No. 22 in the world in the 2019 global survey of universities by the Academic Ranking of World Universities-also known as the ShanghaiRankings.

The El-Shazli family was packed for a move to Washington, D.C., in 1967 where Heba F. El-Shazli’s father was to be stationed as a diplomat in the Egyptian embassy.

Alexis Lasselle Ross’ job with the Army doesn’t require a PhD, but she’s happy to have one. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Strategy and Acquisition Reform says she thinks about what she learned while earning her degree “all the time.”

The characteristics it takes to earn an PhD are the same it takes to assume a role of major responsibility in a company or organization, said John A. Zangardi.

More than 50 students, faculty members, and practitioners in the global energy, economics, and technology fields attended the Third Annual Mason Energy Symposium on Thursday, April 25, held at George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus.

Early in the spring semester, Schar School of Policy and Government associate professor and director of research Naoru Koizumi traveled to Bangladesh to continue research on organ sales and trafficking, specifically kidney harvesting.

Thursday, April 18—It was the day Schar School of Policy and Government undergraduates had been waiting for: Their research posters would finally be displayed and judged, with not just grades at stake, but also the possibility of winning $100.

Two teams of Schar School of Policy and Government representatives—undergraduates and alumni—recently demonstrated how students and former students stay engaged with the George Mason University community by volunteering their time and effort to help local nonprofits.