- August 29, 2023The RISE (Refugee and Immigrant Success through Entrepreneurship) Program as a cohort of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship's SOAR Initiative. SOAR provides a holistic model for startups and empowers individuals who do not currently have adequate access to entrepreneurship training opportunities. RISE focuses its support on aspiring entrepreneurs from refugee and immigrant backgrounds.
- August 28, 2023STEM Bridge Camp is just one of many activities administrated and led by the STEM Accelerator, a unique interdisciplinary collective of faculty committed to improve STEM education at Mason.
- August 28, 2023New students heard from accomplished speakers, practiced skills in workshops, and connected with both academic advisors and peer mentors at the Your Path to Tech event on August 18. Event organizers aimed to welcome women interested in tech and set them up for success in coming years.
- August 28, 2023The spike in numbers shows the value of a Mason education at a time when college enrollment numbers are dropping across Virginia and nationally, with competition for high-quality students becoming more acute, particularly in Northern Virginia.
- August 24, 2023Mason was one of four universities selected for Generation Hope’s inaugural FamilyU Cohort, which is designed to help universities improve student-parent success.
- August 23, 2023The National Science Foundation's Navigating the New Arctic researchers traveled to a remote location to attend the Permafrost and Infrastructure Symposium in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, some 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
- August 23, 2023The Green Tunnel podcast, hosted by 911±¬ÁÏ professor Mills Kelly, has recently reached 100,000 downloads, a milestone that puts the show in the top 3% of podcasts nationwide.
- August 23, 2023Weiwen Jiang in 911±¬ÁÏ's College of Engineering and Computing has two new NSF grants to tackle challenges in quantum computing.
- August 23, 2023Steve Maex, an assistant professor of accounting at 911±¬ÁÏ School of Business, recently received the American Accounting Association (AAA)’s Outstanding International Accounting Dissertation Award.
- August 22, 2023Hannah Adamson, who graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in conflict analysis and resolution, is one of 62 recipients nationwide awarded a fellowship by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
- August 21, 2023On Friday, Aug. 18, it was all smiles as Mason welcomed its largest incoming class at 2023 New Student Convocation in the EagleBank Arena.
- August 21, 2023911±¬ÁÏ President Gregory Washington congratulated the largest incoming class in Mason history for recognizing the many advantages of attending Mason, including undergraduate research opportunities, a diverse student body, and ready access to a dynamic job and internship market.