PIA News & Events Archive
9/17/07
- Announcing the Fall 2007 Gortner Lecture on October 2. Please click here to see the official announcement (pdf).
8/27/07
- PIA Hosts the Fall 2007 Orientation at The Bistro in The Johnson Center on 8/23/07. Welcome to all the new Graduate Students in the Department of Public & International Affairs!
8/27/07
- Biodefense Speaker Series - Walk-Ins Invited to Attend
Dr. David Siegrist is instructor of the BIOD 702 course offered this fall where speakers from various Biodefense fields will present each week on a variety of topics. The PIA Dept. is pleased to open this series to those interested graduate students and faculty who would like to attend a session to hear a topic presented. Drop by on Thursdays from 5:55 - 7:10 p.m. in Rm. 111 of Robinson - A building at the Fairfax campus. A detailed list of the speakers and topics can be found in the attached link.
8/21/07
- Nonprofit expert Alan Abramson joins Mason’s Department of Public and International Affairs as a professor of nonprofit studies. For more than a decade, he directed the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program at the Aspen Institute. The author or co-author of numerous books and papers, he has been named among the 50 most influential leaders in the nonprofit sector by the NonProfit Times. He received his PhD in political science from Yale University.
8/14/07
- Professor Hung Nguyen receives a plaque from Department Chair Robert Dudley honoring the late Cuong Hung Nguyen, a long time friend and volunteer of the Indo China Institute.
8/2/07
- PIA Associate Professor Peter Mandaville was recently awarded $200,000 by the MacArthur Foundation of Chicago for a collaborative project (with Prof. Terrence Lyons from Mason's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution) on 'Global Migration and Transnational Politics.' This two year effort will produce a new body of academic and policy relevant knowledge on the relationship between increased human mobility and new ways of organizing and mobilizing political activities. The project work--which is expected to involve the participation of a number of scholars from around the world--will involve conferences, policy working papers, and the publication of an edited volume.
7/1/07
3/15/07
- PIA staff members Ann Ludwick and Peg Koback represent the MPA program at the 2007 ASPA conference in Washington D.C. Information about the conference can be found here.
Effective Fall 2007 the Master of Public Administration program is offering a concentration in Emergency Management and Homeland Security. Please click here for more information.
Professor Paul Posner, director of the MPA program at George Mason University, has been elected Vice President of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA).
ASPA is the leading public service organization that advances the art, science, teaching, and practice of public and non-profit administration, and promotes the value of joining and elevating the public service profession.
Professor Toepler is among the editors of The Legitimacy of Philanthropic Foundations: U.S. and European Perspectives, recently published by the Russell Sage Foundation http://www.russellsage.org/publications/books/060712.907542. The book is based on a symposium that took place in Paris in 2005 with sponsorship of the Social Science Research Council, the Russell Sage Foundation and the French Mattei Dogan Foundation.
4/17/06 - Photos from "Harold Gortner Distinguished Speaker Series in Public Administration" featuring Louis Fisher and James Pfiffner on April 17, 2006:
Lou Fisher and Professor James Pfiffner entertain questions
President Merten, PIA Department Chair Robert Dudley and Lou Fisher converse during the reception
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Article about our new MPA Director, Paul Posner
World Bank Career Development Event (pdf)
Government and International Politics Major serves on 05-06 Board of Visitors
Two George Mason student entrepreneurs awarded global recognition
Brandon Labman and Tommy Moore, co-founders of Responsible Outgoing College Students, Inc (ROCS, Inc), are one of 14 regional winners of the Global Student Entrepreneur Award (GSEA), which is hosted by St. Louis University's John Cook School of Business and Young Money magazine. The two student business owners are candidates for the GSEA $10,000 grand prize which will be awarded on October 29, 2005 in Orlando, Florida. ROCS, Inc is a temporary staffing agency that helps provide college students with "real-world" work experience in their chosen field of study.
Student Tackles Voter Registration Effort
Government and International Politics major Karl Bach's contribution towards involving George Mason students in Virginia's November 8 gubernatorial election.
Commencement
2005: Student Earns Double the Degree in Half the Time
Shehrish Rajpoot, an ambitious teenager with her future in mind, is graduating
this May after only two and a half years of college.
Student
Representatives to BOV Appointed
Government and International Politics student appointed one year term on
board.
Mason
Student Has a Hand in Making History
Government and International Politics student Cami Ragland has a major role
in organizing the presidential inauguration.
