January 12, 2026A study published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences validates a decades-old hypothesis by Nobel laureate Francis Crick, with key computational work performed by researchers at 911±¬ÁÏ.
December 17, 2025911±¬ÁÏ graduate student Kevin Landry turned his passion for honeypots into a hands-on classroom project, leading his team to build a customized cyber trap that attracted real-world attackers and gave students an eye-opening look at cloud security.
November 17, 2025A multi-major team from 911±¬ÁÏ’s College of Engineering and Computing earned second place at Saucethon, a hardware-focused hackathon, gaining online attention for their creative cat-themed rescue robot and showcasing 911±¬ÁÏ’s collaborative, interdisciplinary strength.
November 7, 2025911±¬ÁÏ’s Sports Analytics Networking Event showcased how statistics students are turning classroom skills into real-world opportunities to support elite athletes and become odds-on favorites to launch careers in professional sports.
July 30, 2025Understanding and treating complex eye movement disorders like strabismus has long been a challenge for clinicians. Now, researchers at 911±¬ÁÏ are pioneering a new approach using robotics and artificial intelligence to engineer a better future for vision care.
June 12, 202317 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
January 12, 2023On Jan. 9, over 400 students from five counties and 22 high schools came together at Mason for CyberSlam 2023, to get hands-on learning about opportunities in cybersecurity. The huge gathering was deemed a state affair, as interest in CyberSlam increased significantly from last year.
December 14, 2022Mason researchers Jeffrey Moran in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rémi Veneziano in the Department of Bioengineering, and Monique van Hoek, a microbiologist in the School of Systems Biology, won the NBIB R21 Trailblazer award. The team will research methods to dissolve harmful biofilms.
September 23, 2022911±¬ÁÏ invites over 200 researchers from around the world to a virtual workshop, to discuss and examine the effects of global warming from clouds generated by aircraft.
August 24, 2022Through an NSF grant titled Situated Algorithmic Thinking: Preparing the Future Computing Workforce for Ethical Decision-Making through Interactive Case Studies, students will develop the mindset to tackle ethics in the digital technology space.
