- November 15, 2021Award-winning novelist Priyanka Champaneri is returning to the classroom this week as part of George Mason University’s Visiting Writers Series.
- November 11, 2021first group of Kindness Ambassadors gathered Monday, Nov. 8, to be recognized for their commitment to spreading compassion and hope.
- November 11, 2021Mason’s School of Dance students are excited to be back performing before a live audience as they present “Fall: New Dances" on Nov. 12–13 at the Hylton Performing Arts Center on Mason’s SciTech Campus.
- November 10, 2021Mason doctoral students LeNaya Crandall Hezel and Lt. Col. Michelle Ruehl are part of the 2021 class of Tillman Scholars, named in honor of Pat Tillman, the former NFL star who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 while serving with the U.S. Army Rangers.
- November 5, 2021In recognition of the National First-Generation College Celebration on Nov. 8, George Mason University celebrates the successes of its first-generation students and alumni.
- November 4, 2021Isidore Nsengiyumva, only four years old at the time, was in the fields with his father and older brother in Burundi, when suddenly they heard the sound of motors and guns. Troops involved in the country’s civil war attacked their village, and rapidly, their lives were changed. “We hid in a bush, and when the noise of the guns and fighting subsided, we went back and found our home burned,” Nsengiyumva said. “That’s when my dad decided it was no longer safe.”
- Meet the PhD Biodefense Student and Counterproliferation Advisor Who Writes Sci-Fi and Spy ThrillersNovember 4, 2021A science-fiction and espionage romance writer—who is also a Schar School PhD student in the biodefense program—reveals her true identity.
- November 2, 2021George Mason University, in keeping its focus on community safety and health, is requiring residential students to participate in COVID-19 testing after returning from the Thanksgiving holiday break.
- November 2, 2021About 100 students attended the Fall 2021 Communication Career Forum hosted by Mason’s Department of Communication and its external advisory board, the Insight Committee. There they had the opportunity to interact in person with public affairs specialists, media producers, journalists, health communicators and marketers.
- November 1, 2021George Mason University students voted at a higher rate than the national student average in the 2020 elections, and also outperformed the average voting rates of public institutions, according to the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement.
- October 27, 2021A six-person panel of Mason experts on mental health and well-being discussed student success strategies as part of a week-long series of events marking President Gregory Washington’s Investiture.