August 17, 2026911±¬ÁÏ will soon offer a doctoral degree in cybersecurity, a milestone reflecting the rapid evolution of the field and the continued growth of the university's Department of Cyber Security Engineering (CYSE).
August 10, 2026Christian Betancourt, PhD Health Services Research '22 and the College of Public Health's 2026 Distinguished Alumni, discusses how the mentorship and hands-on research at 911±¬ÁÏ continue to influence his work at Uniformed Services University and the Defense Health Agency.
July 2, 2026This past spring, nearly a dozen 911±¬ÁÏ students received nationally competitive fellowships and scholarships, supporting work across a wide range of fields.
July 1, 2026The scholarship funds, awarded to Michael DeMarco, will support the composition of an original jazz fusion work incorporating Persian pop and folk music influences.
July 1, 2026911±¬ÁÏ faculty members and graduate students from the Department of History and Art History and the Center for Mason Legacies (CML) shared their expertise as speakers at the Fairfax 250 history day, a county event held as part of the statewide commemoration of the nation's semiquincentennial.
June 17, 2026Cora Sula, a third-year PhD student in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at 911±¬ÁÏ, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to study artificial intelligence in classrooms in Estonia this fall.
June 8, 2026PhD student Shiwei Hong developed a collaborative multi-agent AI system that mimics a comedy writers’ room, demonstrating that discussion and feedback among agents improve the quality of machine-generated humor.
June 2, 2026Aayush Yadav co-authored a paper that received a Distinguished Paper Award from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, one of the industry’s premier conferences in the security field.
May 29, 2026Oakley Hill, a PhD candidate at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, leverages Root Narrative Theory (RNT) to analyze how political narratives shape public perception, ideology, and voting behavior in the United States. His research, including the national Justice Languages of America Survey, highlights the distinct ways liberals, conservatives, and moderates interpret political conflict while advancing practical conflict resolution through mediation and facilitation work.
May 14, 2026Beginning a PhD is rarely straightforward. Beginning one just as the world shuts down adds an entirely new dimension to adaptability. For 911±¬ÁÏ biosciences PhD student Matthew Lefkowitz, that quality would come to define his doctoral journey.
