- March 29, 2021Horizon Hall, at the center of George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus, was conceived as a crossroads where faculty and students in many disciplines can meet and exchange ideas. The multistory Word Wall that greets visitors in the building’s atrium embodies this vision.
- March 25, 2021New Mason men's basketball coach Kim English was introduced to the Mason Nation Thursday, March 25 at a press conference at EagleBank Arena.
- March 25, 2021George Mason University introduced new men’s basketball coach Kim English at an enthusiastic press conference Thursday at EagleBank Arena, with the 32-year-old hire touting the program as a prospective “incubator for the best talent in the country.”
- March 25, 2021George Mason University and the Prince William County Department of Economic Development will lead the Northern Virginia BioHub, one of five clusters that will exist throughout the commonwealth by Virginia Bio-Connect.
- March 24, 2021The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) approved Mason’s proposal to set the stage for a reorganization of the Volgenau School of Engineering to a newly formed College of Engineering and Computing, comprising the proposed School of Computing and Volgenau School of Engineering. The College of Engineering and Computing will be led by Ken Ball. The change will become effective on April 1, 2021.
- March 22, 2021An American Council on Education (ACE) Task Force of college and university presidents and chancellors released a report Monday highlighting the ADVANCE Program, a partnership between George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) as an example of successful collaboration to improve transfer student success.
- March 18, 2021Mason President Gregory Washington praised the Mason community for its collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it “as great of a team effort as I’ve ever seen in academia,” in remarks at a general faculty meeting Wednesday, which was televised on GMU-TV.
- March 18, 2021George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution will host its Spring 2021 Peace Week virtually March 22-26, focusing on how to foster anti-racism approaches in the field of conflict resolution in the United States and around the world.
- March 17, 2021This is the National Society of Black Engineers Week, with festivities taking place all week.
- March 17, 2021Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed legislation that approves George Mason University for the highest level of institutional management autonomy granted to Virginia public colleges and universities, a milestone achievement for Mason, the state’s youngest public research institution.
- March 17, 2021George Mason University was named a “Voter Friendly Campus” as the result of a campus-wide strategy to increase voter turnout. Mason is one of more than 231 colleges and universities across 37 states and the District of Columbia to earn this designation.
- March 16, 2021In the next installment of the Office of the Provost’s Mason Vision Series, Mason epidemiologist Amira Roess will address “COVID-19: A Vision for Future Response.”