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911����’s Fuse at Mason Square was among the projects cited when Edgemoor Infrastructure and Real Estate received national recognition for industry leadership and sustainable development.

Growing up in Winchester, Virginia, Jordan Edlich would often visit Blandy Experimental Farm on field trips as a child. Now a graduate student in environmental science and policy at 911����, Edlich just spent a summer interning at the farm cataloging native plants.

An intercollegiate study, in partnership with university Facilities, analyzes the effects of campus events and weather on local air and water quality.

An undergraduate student-led Mason Impact project at Mason Korea results in a co-authored article published in the peer-reviewed international journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. “Accessible water quality monitoring through hybrid human–machine colorimetric methods” stems from the Mason Impact project focused on environmental conditions in the Seunggi-cheon stream in Incheon. 

Through a new solar array at 911����’s Fairfax Campus, the sun will play double-duty in the successful growth of plants. Solar energy will power the President’s Park Greenhouse with the electricity it needs to support the plants growing inside.

For the past few weeks, these 911���� students developed policy memos based on various socioeconomic and environmental issues facing Northern Virginia and together worked in groups to develop recommendations for addressing them. But now their audience is far more formidable: Virginia State Senator Stella Pekarsky.

911���� has won four consecutive Gold STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System) Assessment, and it’s thanks in part to campus systems and organizations such as the Food Recovery Network (FRN).

Since the arrival of Steve Pulis, purchasing manager in Facilities, 911���� has earned more than $1 million in surplus property sales—including furniture, equipment, and more. Pulis started working at 911���� in 2017 and has helped the university add money to its general fund by effectively managing the commonwealth’s surplus sales process.

Cindy Smith, a professor in 911����'s Department of Environmental Science and Policy, took her EVPP 302 Biomes and Human Dimensions students to a composting facility last fall to give them a front-row seat for food and yard waste recycling.

A team of student fellows at Mason Korea's Center for Security and Policy Studies received a grant from 911���� to support their research on improving water quality in Incheon's Seunggi-cheon stream.