The SPP Community:
Faculty, Students, Alumni, and Staff
School of Public Policy is pleased to announce the newest faculty joining our respected community of scholars and practitioners.
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 William Schneider, a leading U.S. political commentator, is the Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is also the Cable News Network's senior political analyst and a contributing editor to National Journal and The Atlantic Monthly...
 Michael V. Hayden is a Distinguished Visiting Professor with Mason’s School of Public Policy. He is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency (1999-2005) and the Central Intelligence Agency (2006-2009)...
 Robert L. Deitz joins School of Public Policy as Distinguished Visiting Professor & CIA Officer-in-Residence. He was Senior Councillor to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency between 2006 and 2009. Between 1998 and 2006 he was the General Counsel at the National Security Agency where he represented the NSA in all legal matters...
 Katrin Anacker joins School of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor. Her research interests are housing, housing and urban policy, race and public policy, real estate markets, statistical methods, qualitative methods, and research writing...
 Todd Olmstead is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, where he conducts health services research and economic analyses, primarily in the field of addiction...
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Policy Profile -
Heather Hamilton
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Name: Heather Hamilton, Director of Arlington Campus Relations for Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA); Office Manager for On-Site Energy (a geothermal engineering firm in the Virginia area)
Program of Study: Transportation Policy, Operations, and Logistics (TPOL)
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September 8, Minnesota Public Radio
Professor Michael Fauntroy is a panelist on the radio show and discusses the back-to-school message controversy...
September 8, Fox News
Professor Jeremy Mayer comments on the approach President Obama may take when addressing the joint session of Congress with Americans watching...
September 8, Washington Post
Professor John McClain, senior fellow at the Center for Regional Analysis, discusses the projected job loss and gains over the next few years in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region...
September 5, Associated Press
Professor Mark Rozell notes that there will be disagreement on all issues among the Catholic bishops...
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| Awards,
Honors, Appointments |
Shana Leenerts (ICP ’08) was named the Howard Baker Jr. Award winner by the National Security Education Program (NSEP). The NSEP notes in its press release that Leenerts “has shown an outstanding commitment to serving our nation through her work as a...
The paper, “Forecasting Housing Prices with Google Econometrics” by Research Instructor Rajendra Kulkarni, Dean Kingsley Haynes, Vice President Roger Stough, and Professor Jean Paelinck, was recently listed...
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Accolades…
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Professor Stephen Ruth, director of the International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology, wrote "Green IT - More Than a Three Precent Solution?"...
SPP Professors David Hart and Zoltan Acs wrote with Spencer Tracy, Jr. the report “High-tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States.” According to the study...
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Publications…
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The Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University’s School of Public Policy held on the Arlington Campus a day-long conference on September 10 addressing U.S. policy on...
Professor Ramkishen Rajan presented “Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions in Developing Asia: The Role of Financial Variables” at
the...
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Presentations…
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September 15
Information Session for Study Abroad Trip to Southeast Asia and India
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Arlington Campus,
Original Building Dean's Conference Room 206
September 16
SPP JobNet Workshop
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Arlington Campus,
Original Building Arlington Library, Room 101K
RSVP
September 17
The Center for Science and Technology Policy Presents:
“Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Medical Device Industry”
Speaker: Aaron Chatterji, Duke University
noon - 1:30 pm
Arlington Campus, Original Building Room 269
RSVP to dhart@gmu.edu
September 24
SPP Master's Programs
Open House
6:30pm
Arlington Campus, Original Building Room 329
Register
October 5
Faculty and PhD Students are welcome to attend:
"Fiscal policy in Central and Eastern Europe using real time data: Cyclicality, inertia and the role of EU accession"
Speaker: Dr. John Lewis, from the Research Department, Central Bank of the Netherlands
noon - 1:30 pm
Arlington Campus, Original Building Room 245
October 8
The Center for Science and Technology Policy Presents:
“Restoring the Innovative Edge: Six Steps for Protecting the American Standard of Living”
Speaker: Jerald Hage, University of Maryland
noon - 1:30 pm
Arlington Campus, Original Building Room 269
RSVP to dhart@gmu.edu
October 8
SPP Alumni vs. Students vs. Faculty - Trivia Night
Sponsored by the SPP Alumni Chapter and hosted by Neal Racioppo
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Mei's Asian Bistro
To participate contact: sppalum@gmu.edu
October 8
SPP PhD Information Session
7:00 pm
Arlington Campus, Original Building Room 329
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