College grads’ gowns going green
Mason In The News
Mason is featured as one of the country’s eco-friendly universities, highlighting its use of graduation cap and gown sets made from recycled plastic bottles.
Archive for May 2011
May312011
Study Finds More Medical Spending Means Better Health for Medicare Beneficiaries
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Mason health policy expert Jack Hadley and the Urban Institute co-authors analyzed data from Medicare beneficiaries.
Research Team Works at the Forefront of Geoinformatics
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Professors Anthony Stefanidis and Peggy Agouris, partners in life and in science, are now working on “things that people will be using in a few years.”
May242011
Edward Albee, Molly Smith to Address Playwrights Conference
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Mason’s Theater of the First Amendment will host “Playwrights in Mind: A National Conversation” June 9-12.
May232011
Legal Historian Looks at Slavery During Revolutionary War
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A bill of sale found in some old family papers led Joyce Lee Malcolm on an historical detective hunt.
May192011
Students Win National Engineering Design Competitions
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The students were from the Systems Engineering Senior Design course taught by professor Lance Sherry.
May172011
Emerging Explorer: Aziz Abu Sarah, Cultural Educator
Mason In The News
Aziz Abu Sarah, co-executive director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, was named to National Geographic’s 2011 Emerging Explorers Program.
Palestinian Refugees Breach Borders
Mason In The News
Marc Gopin, Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, discusses the Naqba Day protests in Israel by Palestinian refugees.
George Mason University to Install Huge Telescope
Mason In The News
WTOP’s Hank Silverberg interviewed Mason astronomy professor Harold Geller about the installation of the university’s new telescope, which will be the largest on-campus telescope in the region.
May162011
Boomers, you gotta make that body last
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Patrice Winter, life planning coordinator, comments on the challenges baby boomers are facing to stay physically fit.