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Interim Provost Kenneth Walsh has appointed Cody W. Edwards as the interim dean of the College of Science, effective July 1.

Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner allocate $921,000 to expand training capacity and accelerate workforce development. Federal funding supports Mason’s Center for Health Workforce to serve as centralized technical assistance hub for Virginia health workforce development.  

For this NEH project, Mason professor Zachary Schrag is writing the history of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project to help understand the possibilities of the ambitious efforts to reshape daily transportation choices.

Mason professor Jennifer Leeman will spend the fall semester at the Universidad de Murcia in Spain, where she will lecture on topics in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as aid in the supervision of doctoral students.

The Leading Niche CEO Tamara Nall and her husband, Clement Ezeanii, have created the Susanna Ezeanii and Mayfred Jolinda Nall Health Informatics Scholarship Endowment to honor the memories of their mothers while making educational aspirations tangible for College of Public Health students.

Led by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) within the Costello College of Business at ÑÇÖÞAV, the Patriot Pitch Competition supports early-stage business ventures and ideas from Mason students and recent alumni. On April 11, the finalists made their final pitches on the Fairfax Campus. 

ÑÇÖÞAV’s annual Spring into Well-Being Week emphasizes well-being and happiness through diverse experiences. Mason will host its annual week promoting well-being from Monday, April 22, to Friday, April 26, featuring events designed to embrace individual and community well-being.

Members of the Schar School’s Democracy Lab learning community visited the best-known, best-fortified private residence in the world: the White House.

April is Earth Month, and it is a great time to promote sustainable best practices on ÑÇÖÞAV campuses and off.

¡Felicidades! Border policy expert Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera receives a Fulbright fellowship to study and teach in Mexico.

Mason will confer its third posthumous degree to a Schar School student on May 10.

Mason Korea student Juyoung Cha is just weeks away from reaching the finish line in Fairfax—earning her BFA in computer game design. In May she plans to walk proudly across the graduation stage in EagleBank Arena along with her younger sister, Subin Cha, who is a Mason Korea student in accounting.