March 10, 2020In a move to emphasize its core values, George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution announced on Tuesday that it is dedicating itself to peace and social justice with the adoption of a name dedicated to the Carter legacy: the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.
March 3, 2020George Mason University’s School of Music will be renamed the Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music, in honor of the Dewberrys’ lifetime legacy of giving and generous support of the school. The decision was approved unanimously at the Feb. 27 Board of Visitors meeting.
February 27, 2020Many people are familiar with George Mason University’s Arlington Campus, but fewer know its unique history, including how it became the only law school with an escalator when the university moved into the old Kann’s department store in the early 1970s.
February 19, 2020George Mason University’s School of Business announced today that software company UiPath is donating $16.4 million in software licenses to help business students learn about robotic technology in classroom assignments and activities.
January 22, 2020George Mason University ranks the highest among all Virginia colleges for the second year in a row for the social mobility of its students, according to a recently released 2019 survey by CollegeNet.
January 13, 2020What does it take to transform a cool idea into a business? Students at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School are finding out, by helping real-life entrepreneurs in the school’s new Innovation Law Clinic.
November 7, 2019George Mason University will receive $235 million from the state as part of the Tech Talent Investment Program (TTIP) announced Thursday by Gov. Ralph Northam. The funding will support Mason’s role as a producer of graduates in high-demand fields and spur the expansion of the Arlington Campus.
November 4, 2019How does an aspiring intelligence professional learn about the intricacies of global security when the field is highly specialized and secretive? For students at George Mason University, the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at the Schar School of Policy and Government helps pull back that curtain, allowing for a more complete examination of intelligence and its interplay with U.S. national security.
October 29, 2019George Mason University placed three programs in the top 25 nationally among public institutions in the most recent rankings by Times Higher Education: World University Rankings by Subject.
July 8, 2019George Mason University has been recognized as a Cyber FastTrack National “Top Tier College” that is the best in the nation in Cybersecurity Talent Discovery.
April 12, 2019The new traffic gardens at Neval Thomas and Maude E. Aiton elementary schools in Washington, D.C., are not really gardens at all—at least not in the traditional sense. They are mini streetscapes installed on the schools’ property to help educate preschool students on bicycle safety and rules of the road.
February 26, 2019George Mason University students have the opportunity to learn from experienced scholars and researchers, as well as from some of the most influential leaders rising from their own generation. At age 17, Cameron Kasky took on an unprecedented leadership role after the 2018 mass shooting at his high school in Parkland, Florida. He became a voice for his generation on the national stage as a cofounder of March for Our Lives.
