Professor James Pfiffner was a panelist at the From Votes to Victory: Winning and Governing the White House in the 21st Century Conference on April 3 at Hofstra University.  Pfiffner discussed that whoever becomes president in 2009 will face serious problems in fiscal policy and national security policy. He also presented “Power Play: The Bush Administration and the Constitution” as part of the Democracy Project held on the Fairfax Campus on March 24 and for the SPP Faculty Brown Bag Series on the Arlington Campus on March 26.

Professor Kenneth Button presented “The Impact of EU-US ‘Open Skies’ Agreement on Airline Market Structures and Airline Networks,” to the Airneth Conference in Amsterdam in March. He also presented “The Economist's Perspectives on Regional Endogenous Development” to the International Workshop on Regional Endogenous Development: Measures, Models, and Empirical Investigation in Brisbane, Australia, in February.

Professor Naoru Koizumi presented "Factors Affecting the Choice of Mental Health Care Providers: Discrete Choice Analysis" as part of the School of Public Policy (SPP) Faculty Brown Bag Series on April 2 on the Arlington Campus.

Professor Bonnie Stabile was guest lecturer for Mason’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences seminar, "Introduction to Science and Society," on March 5 on the Fairfax Campus. Stabile spoke about her work on state cloning laws as an illustration of the critical link that policy provides between science and society.

Associate Dean Roger Stough was a moderator at the fourth annual Mason Entrepreneurship Research Conference on March 28 on the Fairfax Campus. This annual research conference, hosted by the SPP and the School of Management, promotes dialogue and collaborative research among individuals interested in entrepreneurship.