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The first time Katherine Ashby saw her artwork installed at Gunston Hall, the historic home of U.S. Founding Father 911���� IV, it was surreal. “I had never done something that felt that important or that had been installed physically,” the senior painting major from 911���� said.

Mason’s new Youth Research Council (YRC) is a research partnership between the Center for Social Science Research (CSSR) in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Mason’s Early Identification Program (EIP), which invites ninth through twelfth graders into the field of social science research.

When 911���� students sign up for Video Production for Social Change, they won’t just learn in a traditional classroom setting, they’ll make an impact in their community.

Mason alumna remembers special gift from esteemed journalist Barbara Walters.

During winter break, fifty-three 911���� students participated in three-week micro-internships via Break Through Tech DC’s Sprinternship program. 

In late September, 18 undergraduates from the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation‘s (SMSC) Wildlife Ecology and Conservation program tagged monarch butterflies on their journey south to help researchers better understand their grand migration.

The combat veteran is director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Exercise Division (NED), an important position. But MPA student Shawn Lenore wants to learn how to do it better at the Schar School.

Mason's Center for Culture, Equity and Empowerment put out a call for illustrators, painters, and graphic designers of all backgrounds to submit art on the theme of this year’s MLK Remembrance events of “Lighting the Pathway: Renewing, Reviving, Restoring and Remembering the Dream.”

The 40 Mason students who traveled to Richmond for Mason Lobbies on Jan. 26 shared their college experience with legislators and highlighted the need for increasing financial aid for Mason students, increased funding per student, and increased staff and faculty salaries for the university to be more competitive in the Washington, D.C., metro area.

Over the summer, 24 students from 911����’s Antonin Scalia Law School delved deep into issues of constitutional law, separation of powers, and national security in Padua, Italy—a place of inspiration for many of these ideals. The two-week study-abroad trip was co-taught by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and National Security Institute Founder and Executive Director Jamil Jaffer.

This year’s Winter Commencement student speaker is Yasmin Alamin, who is graduating this December with a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering.

For her Master of Health Administration capstone, 911���� graduate student Akshaya Chinnathevar Ramesh is interning at The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Capitol Hill and working with a team of analysts working on required reports to Congress on the effects of the No Surprise Act.