NEWS
MEC’s Community Business
Partnership Undergoes Changes
The
Community Business Partnership, a division of SPP’s
Mason Enterprise Center, has gone through many changes in the
past few months. The partnership moved on December 20 to a
new location in Springfield...
TPOL
Alum Returns to Native Botswana to Help Improve Traffic
Safety
After Marvin
Mmutle finished his master’s degree in Transportation
Policy, Operations and Logistics in 2003 he returned to his
native Botswana, where he was recently promoted to senior traffic
safety officer with the department of road transport and safety
(DRTS)... STUDENT
PROFILES
Lisa Fowler Wins Scholarship from VA Realtors Association
Doctoral student Lisa Fowler recently
received a $2,000 scholarship from the Virginia Association of
Realtors. Fowler, who is in
her second year in the PhD program, is concentrating her studies
on regional economic development... Yinglee Tseng Awarded the SPP Alumni Service Award
The
George Mason University Alumni Association hosted its annual
Celebration
of Distinction awards dinner on April 21.
Yinglee Tseng was selected
to receive the 2004 Alumni Service Award from the SPP’s
alumni chapter.
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EVENTS
CNN's Bob Franken To Deliver
SPP Commencement Address
The
School of Public Policy will hold its commencement
ceremonies on Saturday, May 15 in the Johnson Center
on the Fairfax campus. More than 200 graduates will
be receiving masters and doctorate degrees...
Public
Policy Students Organize Science and Tech Conference
One hundred and forty-four graduate students from
around the country attended the Science,
Technology and Policy Graduate Student Conference April
24 and 25 in Washington DC. This is the second year graduate
students from George Mason's SPP, George Washington's Center
for International Science and Technology Policy and Virginia
Tech's Science, Technology and Society Program have organized
this conference...
Sesno
Reports Features Town Meeting on Taxes
Veteran CNN journalist and professor of public policy and communication Frank
Sesno hosted a town hall meeting on the regional debate over how tax dollars
are spent April 20 at George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus. Joining
him on Desperate for Dollars, the second in his
WETA Sesno Reports series, were...
PUBLICATIONS
Dinan Authors and Edits Two
Books This Year
Jean
Monett Professor of Pubic Policy Desmond
Dinan is the author and editor of two recently published
books. Europe Recast: A History of the European Union (Lynne
Rienner, 2004) tells the story of European integration from
its modern origins in the 1940s to the challenges of the
new century... |
