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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.

Sinoxolo “Susan” Favor was doing public health work in her native South Africa long before she enrolled in the College of Public Health at ����AV. Now Favor is graduating from this spring with a BS in community health from the first college of public health in Virginia.

In November 2023, Mason students, faculty, and staff gathered to help transplant 1,700 plants of more than 50 native species into two groves near the stream behind Student Union Building I between Aquia Creek Lane and Patriot Circle.

The students’ trip to the headquarters showed them how they could apply what they have learned in the classrooms as future professionals, whether it be at the SEC or elsewhere.

Students from ����AV’s Department of Nutrition and Food Studies recently visited the men and women of Fairfax Fire Station 33. They taught the firefighters about responsible nutrition habits and cooked nutritious meals for them in the station’s kitchen.

Conflict analysis and resolution major Seung Gyo Kim found Mason Korea to be the perfect place to get a quality education while continuing to develop his English skills.

Psychology major and student-parent Valeria Fernandez was selected to represent Mason as Generation Hope's FamilyU fellow for the 2022–23 cohort. She grew as a leader and advocate during that time and went on to work as a student-parent ambassador with Mason’s Contemporary Student Services.

A group of ����AV mechanical engineering students are building a motorized Vitruvian man for a Center for the Arts (CFA) performance of "Flying to the Stars," a choral concert dedicated to the beginnings of flight from the time of Leonardo da Vinci to the exploration of space. 

With elections looming in Mexico and the United States, a cohort of Schar School students and professors headed to an election hot spot to learn more about it: the border wall.