Schar School Featured Stories

A Schar School scholar argues that the terminology used to describe crimes against humanity need to change. Words matter and precision is important.

Aspiring diplomats and future Foreign Service professionals are invited to a one-on-one information session on April 15. Register before the April 5 deadline to begin your journey to represent America around the world.

Are we meta yet? A book about AI is cowritten by AI, along with Schar School associate professor Alan R. Shark, who teaches technology policy in government. AI created that intimidating cover, too.

Three former intelligence leaders focused their experience and expertise on a familiar subject in a panel discussion called “Assessing Russia.”

Upon his retirement, Schar School Professor Emeritus Bill Schneider, formerly with CNN, endowed a public policy scholarship. The catch: Recipients’ parents are without a college degree—as were his.

The Schar School’s Jeremy Mayer traveled to China to deliver an update on the U.S. presidential election. But his main reason for the trip was to deliver historic documents collected when his grandmother was consort to the last empress of China.

Expertise by Schar School faculty and students is in demand. Here are some recent news items about how they are contributing to conversations throughout the region.

Catherine Read is the first woman and first Mason graduate (BA government and politics ’84) to be mayor of Fairfax City, Va., the university’s hometown, and she isn’t shy about touting a university she says helped teach her how to think critically. Want to know why it’s good to “disrupt the system,” why it’s important to get more women into policy-making decisions, and why our educational system doesn’t reward bold ideas? Read tells you.

The deadly terrorist attack on a Moscow music hall by ISIS-K brings new urgency for Tuesday’s Hayden Center panel discussion, “Assessing Russia.” See who will speak and how to register.

A Schar School degree helped Colin Hart propel his career. Years later, the scholarship he and his brother established in their father’s name is helping graduate students achieve their own success.