Buzz McClain

It was a global conference with a very heady list of panelists and presenters, including several ministers of defense, thought-leaders in counterterrorism, human trafficking, international security, and several NATO deputy assistant secretaries general.

Ann Mei Chang spent 20 years in Silicon Valley, working for the likes of Google, Apple, Intuit, and other innovative and entrepreneurial disrupters.

Several times a year, five undergraduate students are selected by the Schar School of Policy and Government’s Undergraduate Student Services Office to have lunch with the dean of the school, Mark J. Rozell.

“Spring Break in Mexico” conjures images of sun-drenched beaches and bustling nightlife, but for a cadre of Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University graduate and undergraduate students, their week-long adventure in and around Mexico City had a decidedly different purpose—one with lasting results.

Rondene Grinam’s list of undergraduate degrees is impressive: A major in communication with a concentration in public relations, and minors in global affairs and journalism.

The Presidential Management Fellows program is a highly competitive program that began in 1977 as a way for the federal government to train new leaders. It awards fellows with paid positions with benefits in the federal agency of their choice.

Applying for the Presidential Management Fellows program is not for the weak of heart. The competitive program, which began in 1977 as a way for the federal government to train new leaders, awards fellows with paid positions in the federal agency of their choice. The effort is worth it: Many fellows wind up being hired by the agencies after gra...

The session was based on the practice of “speed dating,” wherein couples impart as much pertinent information about themselves as possible in a short span of time to see if they are a good match.

On a blustery, gray day in February, 60 people learned how to “color their personal brand.” That was the theme for the Spring 2019 Learning Community, an event that challenges Organization Development and Knowledge Management master’s students to become instructors for a day.

Sheena Saydam admits she didn’t see herself in real estate while studying national security policy at the Schar School of Policy and Government. Nor did the 2009 Master of Public Policy graduate imagine that she would be helping to support a modified trailer that dispenses free showers to the homeless in Baltimore.