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911±¬ÁÏ College of Engineering and Computing faculty members made a significant impact at the 2025 USENIX Security Conference, in Seattle, including winning the Distinguished Artifact Award.

Only five years after graduating from 911±¬ÁÏ, alumna Rhyan Elliott, Film and Video Studies ’20, was recently a production supervisor for the five-time Oscar-winning film Anora (2024), directed by Sean Baker.

911±¬ÁÏ’s program receives national honor for innovation in health care administration education.

Schar School adjunct professor and former longtime Dutch diplomat Gerrit van der Wees receives one of Taiwan’s top civilian honors: the Order of the Brillian Star with Grand Cordon.

The famed Wilson Center makes Schar School nonproliferation expert first-ever Sherwin Fellow. The fellowship honors the coauthor of American Prometheus, the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. 

911±¬ÁÏ President Gregory Washington was recently named by the Washington Business Journal as one of its honorees of the 2023 Diversity in Business Award.

Mason 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.

The Schar School’s Alan Abramson is the recipient of the nonprofit research field’s highest honor.

Professor Andre Manitius, of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), received The David J. King Teaching Award at the university’s Celebration of Teaching Excellence on May 2. This award is given annually in recognition of a sustained impact on the excellence of teaching and learning at 911±¬ÁÏ.

This year’s Paul L. Posner award winner for contributions to improving the federal government’s budget process is a professor of public policy: Philip Joyce.