June 6, 2025George Mason University researchers Cynthia Lum and Christopher Koper are testing solutions to help local police departments balance limited resources while strengthening public trust.
Groundbreaking mobile app captures and documents bruises to help survivors of interpersonal violenceJune 5, 2025Anonymous donor commits additional $5.3 million to advance research. An interdisciplinary George Mason University research team is breaking new ground in using artificial intelligence to support victims of interpersonal violence. Led by Kat Scafide and Janusz Wojtusiak of the College of Public Health and David Lattanzi of the College of Engineering and Computing, the EAS-ID (Evidence-based AI Software for Injury Detection) project has successfully completed Phase 1: development of a working prototype of a mobile app designed to accurately capture and document bruises. The tool has the potential to transform how clinicians and frontline professionals identify, record, and communicate evidence of injury, particularly in cases of interpersonal violence.
June 5, 2025The fifth annual Progress@Play Social Impact Digital Art Competition has successfully concluded with an award ceremony at George Mason University’s Korea campus. This year’s competition was supported by the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education and the Game Culture Foundation.
June 5, 2025George Mason University has launched its Grand Challenge Initiative (GCI), a comprehensive research framework backed by an initial five-year, $15 million investment. The initiative will align university resources, faculty expertise, and educational programs around six interconnected solution areas addressing what George Mason President Gregory Washington describes as “humanity’s ultimate grand challenge”—securing a peaceful, healthy, and prosperous future.
June 4, 2025The center will advance nuclear science and engineering education.
June 4, 2025A faculty team from several programs within the School of Education at George Mason University has been awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant to train mental health services providers in Manassas City Public Schools. The grant is part of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to expand student access to mental health services in high-need K-12 public schools.
June 2, 2025An undergraduate student-led Mason Impact project at Mason Korea results in a co-authored article published in the peer-reviewed international journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. “Accessible water quality monitoring through hybrid human–machine colorimetric methods” stems from the Mason Impact project focused on environmental conditions in the Seunggi-cheon stream in Incheon.
June 2, 2025Kinesiology major Midori Galligan is on George Mason's women's rowing team. She also performs with Noteworthy, a university a capella student group.
May 30, 2025Alpaslan Özerdem, dean of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, opened the 2025 Korea-U.S.-Japan Young Trilateral Leaders Regional Workshop Series, held in May at the Hiroshima Bunka Koryu Kaikan.
May 30, 2025While many of their peers were spending spring break catching sun at the beach, members of the Impact Fellows Program were busy engaging with organizations and professionals in New York City to see how they run their operations while being dedicated to social impact, sustainability, and community service.
May 29, 2025George Mason Social Work Professor Denise Hines co-edits landmark book highlighting an often-overlooked group.
May 29, 2025Special education for blindness and visual impairment is at the forefront of education innovation and new technology. But the field is facing one critical shortage: teachers for elementary and secondary schools.
