May 6, 2022School of Art professor Christopher Kardambikis was determined to focus his operations and curriculum on printmaking processes that are nontoxic, energy efficient, and supportive of the repurposing of paper scraps into new usable sheets.
May 6, 2022On May 21, 1983, George Mason University awarded its first doctoral degree, a doctor of arts in education, to Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, a teacher at nearby West Springfield High School.
May 5, 2022On April 7, 2022, George Mason University celebrated its 50th anniversary as an independent public university. That day and the week of events surrounding it illuminated Mason as a university that is altogether different.
May 5, 2022Two Mason students and an alumna received graduate research fellowships through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), and one student was recognized with an honorable mention.
May 4, 2022U.S. Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton visited George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus Tuesday to hear about the university’s research enterprise.
May 4, 2022The Hylton Performing Arts Center hosted a special two-day celebration with the 12th Anniversary Gala on April 29 and 30. The first Anniversary Gala held in-person since 2019, the event welcomed more than 1,000 guests and supported the Hylton Center’s mission of presenting diverse performances and programs of high quality and artistic excellence to inspire, educate, and enrich the community.
May 4, 2022Mason professor Constance Gewa says that one of the biggest international problems we face is mothers and children worldwide chronically suffering from food insecurity and a lack of nutrition.
May 3, 2022The K12 Quantum Workforce Development Project will help develop quantum curricula in local public high school systems to better prepare a diverse quantum workforce in Northern Virginia.
May 2, 2022In January, Nikyatu Jusu, assistant professor of directing and screenwriting in Mason’s Film and Video Studies Program, had her first feature film, “Nanny,” premier at the Sundance Film Festival, where she was awarded the Grand Jury Prize.
May 2, 2022Amarda Shehu, a professor in the department of computer science in the College of Engineering and Computing, is an inaugural founding co-director of the Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnerships (CAHMP). She begins her new role with IDIA on May 25.
May 2, 2022Mason students attended a screening of the documentary “Guardians of the Forest” and the talkback with leaders of the Maijuna indigenous group in Peru, who were featured in the film.
April 29, 2022Einav Hart, an assistant professor of management at George Mason University’s School of Business, shows the economic implications of negotiators’ relationships, and how these economic implications affect how people negotiate. Her recent paper in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (co-authored with Maurice Schweitzer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) introduces the construct “ERRO” (the Economic Relevance of negotiators’ Relational Outcomes) to shed light on when negotiators should consider their future relationships.
