Schar School of Policy and Government - Click to Go Home
  • About
    The Schar School 
    Founders Hall

    A Dynamic Education for an Evolving World

    • About
    • About Dwight Schar
    • A Message from Dean Mark J. Rozell
    • Key Facts
      • Explore Washington, D.C.
    • Faculty Directory
    • Staff Directory
    • Maps & Directions
    • Contact Us
      • Contact Undergraduate Admissions
      • Contact Graduate Admissions
      • Contact Student Services and Advising
  • Prospective Students
    The Schar School 
    Founders Hall

    A Dynamic Education for an Evolving World

    • Prospective Students
    • Application Requirements
    • Programs of Study
      • Undergraduate Programs
      • Master's Programs
      • PhD Programs
      • Graduate Certificates
      • Security Studies
      • Online Programs
      • Executive Education
      • Visiting Non-Degree Studies
    • Admissions & Aid
      • Graduate Admissions FAQ
      • International Applicant Requirements
      • For Military, Veterans, and Dependents
      • Tuition & Financial Assistance
      • Admitted Students
      • Contact Admissions
    • The Value of a Schar School Degree
    • Explore & Visit
      • Graduate Admissions Recruitment & Events
      • Undergraduate Admissions Recruitment & Events
      • Ask a Graduate Ambassador
      • Ask an Undergraduate Liaison
      • Viewbooks & Publications
    • Request More Information
    • Apply Now
  • Current Students
    The Schar School 
    Founders Hall

    A Dynamic Education for an Evolving World

    • Current Students
    • Short-Term Study Abroad Programs
    • Career Development Office
      • Career Resources for Students and Alumni
      • Career Development Webinars
      • Student Services Seminars
      • Graduate Internship Program
      • Career Outcomes Reports
      • Career Fair
      • Employers
      • Job Opportunities
      • Contact Career Services
    • Undergraduate Student Services
      • Undergraduate Advising
      • Undergraduate Career Readiness
      • Undergraduate Minors
      • Undergraduate Internship Program
      • Undergraduate Research Assistant Program
      • Patriot Prelaw Program
      • Accelerated Master’s Programs
    • Master’s Student Services
      • Master’s FAQ
      • Graduate Degree Requirements
      • Academic Policies and Forms
      • Master’s 101
      • Information About POGO 511
      • Master's Student Services Contact Information
    • PhD Student Services
      • PhD 101
      • PhD FAQs
      • PhD Handbooks and Forms
      • PhD Milestone Guides
      • Doctoral Candidates & Research
      • PhD Student Advising Articles
      • Careers in the Academy
    • Scholarships and Funding
      • Scholarships for Undergrads
      • Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society
      • Grants for PhD Research
      • Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships
      • ERPi Patriot Scholarship for Veterans and Dependents of Veterans
      • Awards for PhD Dissertations
      • Post-Doctoral Fellowships & Awards
    • Course Syllabi and Schedule
      • Academic Calendar
      • Course Syllabi
  • News & Events
      The Schar School  
    Founders Hall

    A Dynamic Education for an Evolving World

    • News and Events
    • Latest News
    • Events Calendar
    • Schar School Magazine
    • Nexus Alumni Newsletter
  • Faculty & Research
    The Schar School 
    Founders Hall

    A Dynamic Education for an Evolving World

    • Office of Grant Development
    • Faculty and Research
    • Research in Action
    • Research Centers, Institutes, and Initiatives
    • Faculty Areas of Research
    • Resources for Faculty and Staff
    • Careers at the Schar School
    • Faculty Directory
  • Alumni
    The Schar School 
    Founders Hall

    A Dynamic Education for an Evolving World

    • Alumni & Annual Campaign
    • Alumni
      • Schar School & Alumni News
      • Alumni Leadership and Chapter
      • Annual Alumni Awards Gala
      • Support the Schar School
      • Alumni Faculty/Staff Liaisons
    • Annual Campaign
    • Volunteer
    • Update Your Information

Search form

Menu Close

Search form

  • About
    • About
    • About Dwight Schar
    • A Message from Dean Mark J. Rozell
    • Key Facts
    • Faculty Directory
    • Staff Directory
    • Maps & Directions
    • Contact Us
      • Contact Undergraduate Admissions
      • Contact Graduate Admissions
      • Contact Student Services and Advising
  • Prospective Students
    • Prospective Students
    • Application Requirements
    • Programs of Study
      • Undergraduate Programs
      • Master's Programs
      • PhD Programs
      • Graduate Certificates
      • Security Studies
      • Online Programs
      • Executive Education
      • Visiting Non-Degree Studies
    • Admissions & Aid
      • Graduate Admissions FAQ
      • International Applicant Requirements
      • For Military, Veterans, and Dependents
      • Tuition & Financial Assistance
      • Admitted Students
      • Contact Admissions
    • The Value of a Schar School Degree
    • Explore & Visit
      • Graduate Admissions Recruitment & Events
      • Undergraduate Admissions Recruitment & Events
      • Ask a Graduate Ambassador
      • Ask an Undergraduate Liaison
      • Viewbooks & Publications
    • Request More Information
    • Apply Now
  • Current Students
    • Current Students
    • Short-Term Study Abroad Programs
    • Career Development Office
    • Undergraduate Student Services
      • Undergraduate Advising
      • Undergraduate Career Readiness
      • Undergraduate Minors
      • Undergraduate Internship Program
      • Undergraduate Research Assistant Program
      • Patriot Prelaw Program
      • Accelerated Master’s Programs
      • Undergraduate Services Contact Info
    • Master’s Student Services
      • Academic Policies and Forms
      • Graduate Degree Requirements
      • Master’s 101
      • Master’s FAQ
      • Information About POGO 511
      • Master's Student Services Contact Information
    • PhD Student Services
      • PhD 101
      • PhD FAQs
      • PhD Handbooks and Forms
      • PhD Milestone Guides
      • Doctoral Candidates & Research
      • PhD Student Advising Articles
      • Careers in the Academy
    • Scholarships and Funding
      • Scholarships for Undergrads
      • Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society
      • Grants for PhD Research
      • Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships
      • ERPi Patriot Scholarship for Veterans and Dependents of Veterans
      • Awards for PhD Dissertations
      • Post-Doctoral Fellowships & Awards
    • Course Syllabi and Schedule
      • Academic Calendar
      • Course Syllabi
  • News & Events
    • News and Events
    • Latest News
    • Events Calendar
    • Schar School Magazine
    • Nexus Alumni Newsletter
  • Faculty & Research
    • Office of Grant Development
    • Faculty and Research
    • Research in Action
    • Research Centers, Institutes, and Initiatives
    • Faculty Areas of Research
    • Resources for Faculty and Staff
    • Careers at the Schar School
    • Doctoral Dissertations Index
    • Faculty Directory
  • Alumni
    • Alumni & Annual Campaign
    • Alumni
      • Schar School & Alumni News
      • Alumni Leadership and Chapter
      • Annual Alumni Awards Gala
      • Alumni Career Services
      • Support the Schar School
      • Alumni Faculty/Staff Liaisons
    • Annual Campaign
    • Volunteer
    • Update Your Information
Schar School in the News
Schar School’s Terrorism Center Joins International Conservation Union to Combat Wildlife and Conservation Crimes
January 19, 2021
Schar School Adds Intelligence Expert, Author, TV Commentor David Priess to Faculty
January 13, 2021
Schar School Partners with UiPath for Robotic Process Automation Initiative
January 11, 2021
Despite Life’s Daunting Challenges, Schar School Senior Cassidy Whitehurst Thrives at Mason
January 06, 2021

Upcoming Events
Hayden Center Event - The Assault on Intelligence: After Trump (1/26)
January 26, 2021
George Hutchinson Oral Defense of Dissertation Proposal in Public Policy (1/28)
January 28, 2021
Race and Social Justice Colloquia (2/4)
February 04, 2021
Virtual Resume Clinic (2/4)
February 04, 2021
Recent Tweets

#Biden’s inaugural address linked prosperity to civic virtue. @ScharSchool’s @StevePearlstein analyzed the address in an op-ed for the @washingtonpost. “The pluralistic ideal lies at the core of Biden’s summons to national unity.” https://t.co/UXIeUJabx4 pic.twitter.com/kMD6pffwI9

— Schar School (@ScharSchool) January 21, 2021

Will the same happen to #Trump? @ScharSchool’s @jomaburt discussed #Peru’s ex-head of state being held accountable in court with @newrepublic. Peru showed “its citizens that its system of justice is capable of prosecuting even the most powerful.” https://t.co/WC5VSpUsO3 pic.twitter.com/KYH96ASO9R

— Schar School (@ScharSchool) January 21, 2021

Under #Biden, America has rejoined the @WHO. @ScharSchool’s @SaskiaPopescu tells @Forbes: “I’m truly happy to see that the Biden-Harris administration has prioritized rejoining the WHO.” It’s a good signal to our global partners. https://t.co/J5uGBnNROW pic.twitter.com/ODyGFuLfyj

— Schar School (@ScharSchool) January 21, 2021

As #Biden takes office, he’s expected to issue many orders during his first 100 Days. @ScharSchool’s @MarkJRozellGMU writes in @thehill that this will “showcase that their elections resulted in meaningful and nearly immediate change.” https://t.co/hWWvrorMZR pic.twitter.com/WwRd1ZBnNP

— Schar School (@ScharSchool) January 21, 2021

Is #Biden’s new #Climate team the most powerful yet? It depends. @ScharSchool’s James Pfiffner tells @nytimes that “Certainly, they can be powerful, but only to the extent that their policy area is of primary importance to the president.” https://t.co/WA9tLrY1G4 pic.twitter.com/4DGua1rqZj

— Schar School (@ScharSchool) January 21, 2021

Need to rent? Prices have dropped since March, when #COVID hit us hard. @ScharSchool’s Terry Clower tells @ARLnowDOTcom that it’s definitely due to the #pandemic. “Most of the jobs that we have lost… are typically disproportionately renters.” https://t.co/tpGg8EgTfL pic.twitter.com/pBhRYKN7Yt

— Schar School (@ScharSchool) January 21, 2021

Someone go out and please tell @SenSanders that class @ScharSchool and @GeorgeMasonU don't start until Monday!
(HT @deltondaigle) pic.twitter.com/hdBtQBorir

— Schar School (@ScharSchool) January 21, 2021

#Congratulations to @AndrwLight for his appointment to lead #Biden's Office of International Affairs @ Department of Energy as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs. We look forward to seeing you in the classroom when your term is over. pic.twitter.com/pvJPopfchu

— Schar School (@ScharSchool) January 21, 2021

As #Biden takes office in a few hours, we can look back at #Trump's "economic nationalism" as described by @ScharSchool's Kenneth Reinert @thehill. "Trump’s economic nationalism was largely empty talk. Where it involved action, it was the wrong kind." https://t.co/yh5gdWW5Ow pic.twitter.com/boOlHSxWw4

— Schar School (@ScharSchool) January 20, 2021

What are the pros and cons of living in a state’s capital? Ask @ScharSchool’s Katrin Anacker. Indicators include professional opportunities, affordable housing, decent transportation, infrastructure, amenities, and weather. https://t.co/5qEgUJJJ4t pic.twitter.com/OWgkGP0KNC

— Schar School (@ScharSchool) January 19, 2021
Home » News & Events » Latest News » In Memoriam: Dr. Roger R. Stough

In Memoriam: Dr. Roger R. Stough

One of the Schar School’s Founders Was Influential in Mason’s Development

September 06, 2019

A man is smiling at the camera.Until earlier this year, the Arlington Campus of George Mason University was called Founders Hall. Within our school, we like to think that “Founders” referred to the four public policy professors and administrators who created what is now the Schar School of Policy and Government. One of those founders, University Professor Roger R. Stough, died Thursday, September 6, of complications from surgery. He was 79-years-old.

Dr. Stough’s early efforts to attract faculty, students, and research grants were vital to the development of the Institute of Public Policy—then TIPP, now the top-ranked Schar School—at a time when state funding was in jeopardy. Dr. Stough was principal investigator for grants and contracts totaling more than $50 million from agencies ranging from NASA and the National Science Foundation to the Department of Justice and the Federal Transit Administration. He was also key to launching many graduate degree programs and establishing influential research centers, including the Schar School’s Center for Regional Analysis.

At various times during his career at Mason, Dr. Stough held titles including Associate Dean for Research and Economic Development, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Director of the PhD program, Director of New Campus Operations at Mason’s Arlington location, and president of the George Mason Intellectual Property Foundation. He was the director of six academic centers, and from 1990 to 2013, he was the Northern Virginia Chair in Local Government and Eminent Scholar Professor of Public Policy.

In 2017, Dr. Stough was presented with the Schar School’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his role in helping create Mason’s policy school.

In 1997, TIPP assumed leadership of Mason’s struggling Entrepreneurship Center under the direction of Dr. Stough. With a mandate to become “the leading innovator in delivering high-impact business development assistance to small businesses” in Virginia, the Mason Enterprise Center now has Small Business Development Centers in dozens of communities across the Commonwealth, serving some 21,000 entrepreneurs.

“But first and foremost, Roger was a teacher,” said Founding Dean Emeritus Kingsley E. Haynes, who, with Dr. Stough and professors Martin Lipset and Donald Kash, founded TIPP. “He inspired generations of students over his 40-plus-year academic career. As much as all of us will miss him, we also know that through his students he will continue to live on.”

Beyond the Mason campus, his influence was felt internationally as a consultant and researcher, participating in technology policy seminars in Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America, as well as publishing hundreds of his findings globally. He authored or edited 45 books, wrote 90 chapters for books, and more than 85 journal articles. He was a past-president of the Regional Science Association International, contributing to the success of the North American Regional Science Council and the Western Regional Science Association. He was co-editor in chief of The Annals of Regional Science, now a top publication in the field.

Dr. Stough, who was awarded an honorary doctorate from Jönköping University in Sweden in 2006, earned his bachelor’s degree in International Trade and Economics from Ohio State University in 1964. He received his master’s degree in Economic Geography from the University of South Carolina in 1971 and a PhD in Geography and Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1978.

He is survived by his wife Barbara and sons Brandon and John. 

The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, a donation be made to the “Schar School Postdoctoral Fellowship Fund in Memory of Roger Stough.” Checks may be sent or dropped off to Zavin Smith, director of development, and should be made out to the George Mason University Foundation, with the name of the fellowship on the memo line. Online donations may be made at this site; use the “Other Fund Not Listed” box and type in “Schar School Postdoctoral Fellowship Fund in memory of Roger Stough” under “additional comments about your gift.”  

The address is:

Zavin Smith
Schar School of Policy and Government
MS 3B1
George Mason University
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA  22201

REQUEST INFORMATION

  • CONTACT US
  • Programs of Study
  • PRIVACY POLICY & DISCLAIMER
  • Support the Schar School
  • MESSAGING AND BRAND GUIDE
  • WORK WITH US
  • SITEMAP
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  

A Dynamic Education for an Evolving World

Contact Us
Admissions Questions?
703-993-8099  
Schar Undergraduate Admissions: ScharUAA@gmu.edu
Schar Graduate Admissions: Schar@gmu.edu
 
General Inquires
703-993-2280 
 
Van Metre Hall, Fifth Floor
3351 Fairfax Drive,
MS 3B1
Arlington, VA 22201
 
Research Hall Room 359,
MS 3F4 
4400 University Drive 
Fairfax, VA 22030