Buzz McClain

The sudden resignation this week of Bolivian president Evo Morales was a positive turn of events for Yasser Aburdene, who had been spending his evenings this fall at the Bolivian embassy in Washington, D.C., along with others protesting Morales’ questionable election victory.

Some 500 audience members filled the ballroom of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night, despite chilly rain and a Game 7 of the baseball World Series featuring the city’s own team.

New entries in the Almanac of Virginia Politics include election-relevant material in key races throughout the Commonwealth. Voters can find up-to-date information on candidates and campaign activities on the closely watched, hotly contested races in the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate.

The “ah-ha” moment came during a conversation in London’s SkyBar during a break at a 2015 investment conference.

Marisol Maddox spent three weeks this summer aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker traveling inside the Arctic Circle. She was prepared for minus-20-with-wind-chill temperatures and brisk 20-plus-hours-a-day sunshine, but the cold temperatures never came.

For the second year in a row, Schar School of Policy and Government professors spent a week in South Korea in late May, delivering research to political leadership, professors, and students in a well-attended symposium addressing international security.

The Schar School of Policy and Government’s Public Administration program has been ranked No. 22 in the world in the 2019 global survey of universities by the Academic Ranking of World Universities-also known as the ShanghaiRankings.

The El-Shazli family was packed for a move to Washington, D.C., in 1967 where Heba F. El-Shazli’s father was to be stationed as a diplomat in the Egyptian embassy.

Alexis Lasselle Ross’ job with the Army doesn’t require a PhD, but she’s happy to have one. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Strategy and Acquisition Reform says she thinks about what she learned while earning her degree “all the time.”

The characteristics it takes to earn an PhD are the same it takes to assume a role of major responsibility in a company or organization, said John A. Zangardi.