Articles and content featured in the Spirit Magazine's Spring 2023 edition.
November 4, 2022The passage of Title IX in 1972 also marked the beginning of athletic opportunities for women at 911±¬ÁÏ. Mason's first women's sport—tennis—started its inaugural season in 1972-73.
October 21, 2022Sylvia Schreiner is on a mission to record and help maintain the Yupik language on St. Lawrence Island, and she has the support of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant to do it.
October 18, 2022Assistant Professor Vijay Shah from the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at 911±¬ÁÏ's College of Engineering and Computing, teamed up with colleagues in Arlington, Virginia, to build drones that monitor and improve the safety of firefighters in action.
October 18, 2022After a perilous journey through war-torn Ukraine, a freshman Schar School student looks forward to a new life. But she’s concerned for her parents who remained behind.
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.
Veteran Mason athletics leader Nena Rogers to serve as Interim Director of Intercollegiate AthleticsOctober 11, 2022Nena Rogers, Mason’s Senior Associate Athletic Director of Intercollegiate Athletics for Academic Services, will serve as the university’s Interim Assistant Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics while a national search for a permanent director is conducted.
October 10, 2022On Friday, October 7, 911±¬ÁÏ dedicated a Virginia historic site and celebrated the university–community partnership that helped preserved it.
September 19, 2022Mason’s SciTech Campus celebrates the university's 50th Anniversary and looks ahead to the future
August 29, 2022Melissa J. Perry, the new dean of 911±¬ÁÏ’s College of Health and Human Services, recently sat down to discuss her personal and academic background, her vision for the college, and her approach to lifelong learning. She joined Mason August 1.
August 25, 2022An important new study of 3,100 counties shows the relationship between a community’s mental health services and the local jail population. It also shows how to reduce that population.