- April 21, 2021Playing football for University of Notre Dame was something Steve Elmer said he could only dream of when he was younger. His talent combined with a scholarship had him playing on the field with a golden helmet as freshman. He became one of the team’s most experienced offensive linemen, having 30 starts to his name.
- April 19, 2021Mason cadets fly to Marine Corps Base Quantico to complete a simulated military mission.
- April 19, 2021George Mason University is offering two COVID-19 vaccination clinics this week for students on Wednesday, April 21 and Friday, April 23.
- April 19, 2021Nine Mason teams are participating in PitchFest, the TiE DC chapter’s region-wide pitch competition for university students.
- April 7, 2021With the guidance of LaNitra Berger, senior director of Mason’s Office of Fellowships, and thanks to a happenstance meeting between them, Soraya Ngarnim and Chanel Grice are fulfilling their dreams.
- April 5, 2021Growing up in the slums of Cameroon, Joseph Sany said he witnessed urban violence and police oppression regularly. He heard about genocide in Rwanda, and he saw more violence firsthand when he worked with NGOs and visited countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone during civil war.
- April 5, 2021Mason junior Jackie Luu is named a recipient of the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year.
- April 2, 2021A few days after Khalid Noor was born in Takhar, Afghanistan, the Taliban seized the province, and his family had to escape to another region on foot. “We were constantly moving from city to another city,” he said. “When one district was taken or collapsed, we had to move to another.” It wasn’t an ideal life, but Noor is motivated to change that for future generations—and he’s negotiating with the Taliban to do so.
- March 29, 2021During the coronavirus pandemic, Mason doctoral student Marissa Howard was able to get back into the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine (CAPMM) lab, but now all the researchers are working on COVID-19-related research.
- March 25, 2021In March 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Mason graduate student and autism advocate Christine M. Condo published an essay in The Washington Post that changed her life.
- March 25, 2021George Mason University and the Prince William County Department of Economic Development will lead the Northern Virginia BioHub, one of five clusters that will exist throughout the commonwealth by Virginia Bio-Connect.