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The big winners of a two-month-long competition to create innovative ways to combat counterfeiting were Mason students and alumni—and the world at large. See who won the thousands in prize money in the Bring Down Counterfeiting Hackathon 2023 and who helped sponsor it.

911±¬ÁÏ is No. 1 among public universities for research performance in entrepreneurship, and No. 2 overall nationally, in the latest report from EduRank.

Mason alum Alex Hussein (BS Information Systems and Operations Management ‘21), who is also known as @DC Spot, shares his recommendations for a few must-go-restaurants in local Fairfax. Alex is a food influencer with over 215,000 Instagram followers. His videos feature eateries throughout the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia areas.

Meet the person behind @DCSpot’s almost 200,000 Instagram followers: Mason alum Alex Hussein.

Mason has established a new Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) Program to bolster the start-up market and opportunities in the greater Washington, D.C., region and across the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The business school’s SOAR Initiative is a critical building block in 911±¬ÁÏ’s efforts to advance social mobility, or an individual’s ability to improve their socioeconomic status.

A 911±¬ÁÏ multidisciplinary research team recently received $5,000 in funding from the VentureWell Accelerator to continue to develop their app iCONNECT SUD.

911±¬ÁÏ computer science researchers are making exercise virtually fun.

On May 9, 911±¬ÁÏ celebrated its research enterprise with Innovation Awards, recognizing the Innovator of the Year and a Mason start-up, and those who received and/or licensed a patent.

Fifteen teams competed for $40K in prizes at the 911±¬ÁÏ School of Business Patriot Pitch Competition during the in-person April 13 event on Mason’s Fairfax Campus.