Schar School of Policy and Government

A major conference at Mason Square addresses a timely topic—character assassination, particularly toward those in power and especially with gender biases. Jill Biden’s former spokesman, Michael LaRosa, delivers the keynote. See how to attend and who else is speaking.

Brian Lamb takes the stage at Mason Square to talk about how—and why—he created C-SPAN in 1979. Read his advice to the Democracy Lab students in attendance.

C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb brings his endless curiosity to Mason Square on February 10.

A new course combines expertise from several George Mason units. The purpose? To teach the ethics of artificial intelligence. See who is teaching and when the course starts.

A $1 million grant from the U.S. Senate will create a new interdisciplinary center at George Mason designed to help Virginia small businesses take advantage of advances in artificial intelligence. Read who is behind this first-of-its-kind center and how it will work.

The big winners of a two-month-long competition to create innovative ways to combat counterfeiting were Mason students and alumni—and the world at large. See who won the thousands in prize money in the Bring Down Counterfeiting Hackathon 2023 and who helped sponsor it.

Since the early 1990s, Congress has mandated that the State Department produce a report on global terrorism. Meet the Schar School team that is doing that.

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.

George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce are presenting the second of three televised gubernatorial debates between Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at Capital One Bank in McLean.