- September 4, 2024
A $16.5 million grant for the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN), led by Faye S. Taxman, will enable the research network to expand its focus.
- August 21, 2024
A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study policy and scientific challenges in making bus fleets less dependent on fossil fuel will bring together experts from a variety of disciplines and three major universities. See what they hope to accomplish, and why.
- June 28, 2024
A $1 million grant from the U.S. Senate will create a new interdisciplinary center at George Mason designed to help Virginia small businesses take advantage of advances in artificial intelligence. Read who is behind this first-of-its-kind center and how it will work.
- April 3, 2024
New EduRank report on university performance in research highlights eighteen George Mason University programs as the best in Virginia, with Mason's entrepreneurship ecosystem as No.1 among all public institutions.
- March 25, 2024
Catherine Read is the first woman and first Mason graduate (BA government and politics ’84) to be mayor of Fairfax City, Va., the university’s hometown, and she isn’t shy about touting a university she says helped teach her how to think critically. Want to know why it’s good to “disrupt the system,” why it’s important to get more women into policy-making decisions, and why our educational system doesn’t reward bold ideas? Read tells you.
- March 25, 2024
George Mason University students are working with the U.S. Department of State to find out what motivates students to study abroad, specifically in Southeast South Korea.
- January 30, 2024
George Mason University’s $230 million in research funding in fiscal year 2022 was a 7% increase from 2021, putting the university three years ahead of its goal of $225 million by 2025.
- July 8, 2023
Andrew McCabe, the former deputy and acting director of the FBI, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor, gives a masterclass on the indictment of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act, goes deep into some of the most controversial and important moments in his career, and explains why he so appreciates teaching at Mason.
- April 25, 2023
George Mason University has 10 graduate programs in the top 30 among public institutions, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report, reflecting the university’s reputation for innovation and ability to make significant impacts on the national stage.
- May 20, 2022
Louise Shelley, a University Professor and director of Mason’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, explains the connections between Russia’s war in Ukraine and corruption and organized crime, and how criminals and terrorists take advantage of the globalized world in which we live.