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Road salt has been touted as a lifesaver when it comes to combatting icy roads. Yet using this snow-melting mineral has a dark side once it enters waterways. Graduating senior Maggie Walker, through the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation (SMSC), is gathering data at local streams to influence change.

When Mason PhD student Gifty Mensah was working on her master’s degree in microbiology, she realized the tangible impact of research.

Sponsored by the Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) and the Business for a Better World Center, the 17 Rooms-U produced dozens of ideas, some of which were combined during follow-up conversations. Groups championing those ideas are now receiving up to $5,000 in seed money to implement their sustainability plans.

During the pandemic, Mason cyber security engineering major Ahna Mohiuddin was taking her classes online in Bangladesh, a 10-hour time difference.

Eleven Mason students took the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT®) challenge following the Mason Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on April 8.

The 2022 Mason Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on April 8 highlighted the university’s new slogan, All Together Different, by uniting students from across different programs and departments to showcase Mason’s commitment to research and its impact.

George Mason alum Marc Christensen (MS in Electrical Engineering, 1998; PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001) will become the 17th president of Clarkson University.

Mason English major Jasmine Okidi’s dedication and accomplishments were rewarded recently with a Beinecke Scholarship, which supports exceptional students committed to research careers in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

From April 2-4, 14 students from Mason’s Forensics Team competed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the AFA-NST, which brings students together from across the nation to compete for national championships.

Graduate students in the MBA elective class help companies examine their impact on the environment and offer solutions to reduce their environmental footprint.

Bioengineering undergrad Medhini Sosale wins one of the highest rewards—the Goldwater Scholarship—in the U.S. for undergrad students interested in developing STEM research careers.

The Honors College class on the “100th Meridian Project” involves a multidisciplinary investigation into the water crisis in the American West.