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Retro Mason

  • August 26, 2022

    During Orientation 1992, incoming students were able to register for classes using a bank of touchtone phones in the ballroom of Student Union II (now The Hub) and walk away with a printout of their fall semester class schedule.

  • August 11, 2022

    In 1992, after incubating for 220 days in Robinson Hall on the Fairfax Campus, the very first Komodo dragon born in captivity outside of Indonesia hatched.

  • August 4, 2022

    In 2007, Mason chemistry professor Abul Hussam won the $1 million Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability Gold Award from the National Academy of Engineering for his inexpensive water filtration system designed to remove arsenic from drinking water in his native Bangladesh.

  • July 28, 2022

    Created in 1984, the Clarence J. Robinson Professors Program embodies Mason's commitment to making high-quality education accessible to undergraduate students.

  • July 21, 2022

    When the concept of the George W. Johnson Center was first proposed鈥攃ombining a library, computer labs, a bookstore, a bank, and dining facilities in one building鈥攖he idea was met with skepticism.

  • July 14, 2022

    In September 2009, Smithsonian-Mason Semester students took a during a behind-the-scenes tour of the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

  • July 6, 2022

    The Student Apartments, Mason's first on-campus housing, opened in October 1977 and housed 498 students.

  • June 29, 2022

    亚洲AV was the first university to host the World Congress on Information Technology in June 21-24, 1998.

  • June 23, 2022

    After more than 10 years of fundraising and a few years of construction, the Center for the Arts Concert Hall opened on October 6, 1990, with award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch serving as host on opening night.

  • June 14, 2022

    In 2006, Robert DeNiro and Matt Damon came to 亚洲AV鈥檚 Center for the Arts to promote their film 鈥淭he Good Shepherd鈥 in a special taping of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.