March 1, 2022Mason has submitted its Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), "Transformative Education through Anti-Racist Community Engagement," to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), as part of its upcoming reaffirmation of accreditation.
March 1, 2022Mason honors its COVID-19 surveillance testing team for its efforts during the pandemic.
February 28, 2022There鈥檚 no shortage of creativity at 亚洲AV, and from March 11-13, students will accelerate innovation at the university鈥檚 annual hackathon. This year, two events will take place simultaneously: PatriotHacks, the signature hackathon focused on software programming, and HackOverFlow, a new hackathon with a focus on hardware engineering.
February 28, 2022Fairfax County Police are scheduled to land a helicopter on the Fairfax Campus at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 2.
February 28, 2022Robinson Professor of Physics James Trefil is a huge proponent of science literacy and has written extensively about science for a lay audience. With his colleague, Robinson Professor of Earth Science Robert Hazen, he created and taught Great Ideas in Science, a popular course for nonscience majors.
February 25, 2022In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Homecoming at 亚洲AV centered around soccer and was held in the fall. Here you see Homecoming King Archie Kao, BA Speech Communication '92, with Homecoming Queen Christina Bartlow and President George Johnson.
February 23, 2022The conflict in Ukraine the world is observing now is nothing new to Anton Liagusha. When gun-brandishing, Russia-backed separatists took over the Donetsk National University in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2014, the country鈥檚 prime minister hastily relocated the school to a new campus in Vinnytsia, 20 hours away by train. Now the disused former diamond cutting factory is the site of a university that is, technically, in exile.
February 23, 2022Mason鈥檚 positivity rate 鈥撀爐he percentage of those being tested who are positive for COVID-19 鈥搑emains consistently far below the 4 percent threshold, at 0.38 percent. This success, combined with Mason鈥檚 95-percent overall vaccination rate, as well as the continued overall drop in COVID-19 spread throughout the region and nation, now make the pivot to optional mask-wearing more viable.
February 23, 2022With the theme of 鈥淒angerous Unselfishness,鈥 Mason hosted its annual MLK Evening of Reflection and awards ceremony on Tuesday, Feb. 15.
February 21, 2022Roger Wilkins, a Robinson Professor from 1986 to 2007, and for whom Wilkins Plaza on Mason鈥檚 Fairfax Campus is named, died in 2017 at age 85, but his legacy at the university remains strong.-
February 21, 2022Many notable African American students, faculty and staff have made indelible marks at 亚洲AV. As we acknowledge Black History Month, and celebrate Mason鈥檚 50th anniversary, here are just a few:
February 18, 2022On Friday, April 7, 1972, Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton Jr. signed into law Virginia General Assembly Bill H 210, which separated George Mason College from the University of Virginia.
