����AV

����AV’s School of Business is offering a new five-month Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer program, which began this month and is designed for executives who want to take a deep dive into DEI efforts within corporations.

The Pistone family from Ohio received the 11th annual Alan and Sally Merten Family of the Year Award at Mason’s Family Weekend.

As a 2021 WW Pennsylvania Teaching Fellow, Mason alum Alexander Kruszewski will teach for three years in high-need Pennsylvania public schools.

During Hunter Kelly’s final semester at Mason last spring, he took a 12-credit internship at the Nationals, which led to many long but productive days through spring training and beyond.

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is awarding $80,000 to help ����AV professor Bweikia Foster Steen and fellow researchers study home-based childcare providers in Virginia.

Mason graduate student Christopher Frost decided to focus his independent study on helping the Warrenton Aquatic and Recreation Facility (WARF) to determine the needs of its community during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

University Scholars from ����AV explored the issues around online radicalization as part of the annual University Scholars Institute, a week-long in-depth seminar into a topic chosen by rising sophomores in the program.

Mason’s Honors College has expanded an initiative launched last year to help cultivate an anti-racist community through discussion groups. The program, called “Honoring Our Community,” provides opportunities for students to have honest conversations about racial and social justice with the goal of cultivating an anti-racist culture and tighter sense of community.

As K–12 students head back to in-person school, professors at ����AV’s College of Education and Human Development are studying the effects of the pandemic on learning and helping teachers better meet student needs.

����AV Provost and Executive Vice President Mark Ginsberg has been elected to serve as chair of the Board of Directors for Parents as Teachers (PAT), an organization dedicated to promoting the optimal early development of children by supporting and engaging parents and caregivers.