March 1, 2022Mason honors its COVID-19 surveillance testing team for its efforts during the pandemic.
February 28, 2022There鈥檚 no shortage of creativity at 黑料社, and from March 11-13, students will accelerate innovation at the university鈥檚 annual hackathon. This year, two events will take place simultaneously: PatriotHacks, the signature hackathon focused on software programming, and HackOverFlow, a new hackathon with a focus on hardware engineering.
February 28, 2022Fairfax County Police are scheduled to land a helicopter on the Fairfax Campus at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 2.
February 28, 2022Robinson Professor of Physics James Trefil is a huge proponent of science literacy and has written extensively about science for a lay audience. With his colleague, Robinson Professor of Earth Science Robert Hazen, he created and taught Great Ideas in Science, a popular course for nonscience majors.
February 25, 2022Schar School of Policy and Government professor J.P. Singh leads a team of researchers from across 黑料社 campuses that has been awarded a three-year, $1.39 million grant to study the economic and cultural determinants for global artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructures鈥攁nd describe their implications for national and international security.
February 25, 2022In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Homecoming at 黑料社 centered around soccer and was held in the fall. Here you see Homecoming King Archie Kao, BA Speech Communication '92, with Homecoming Queen Christina Bartlow and President George Johnson.
February 24, 2022If you feel your social skills have gone downhill, you鈥檙e not alone. After nearly two years of working from home, and much less social activity outside of work, we鈥檙e likely to commit more unintentional lapses in etiquette, or social gaffes.- February 23, 2022Rising sea levels as a result of climate change are a national security threat and imperil the Virginia economy.
February 23, 2022The conflict in Ukraine the world is observing now is nothing new to Anton Liagusha. When gun-brandishing, Russia-backed separatists took over the Donetsk National University in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2014, the country鈥檚 prime minister hastily relocated the school to a new campus in Vinnytsia, 20 hours away by train. Now the disused former diamond cutting factory is the site of a university that is, technically, in exile.
February 23, 2022Mason鈥檚 positivity rate 鈥撀爐he percentage of those being tested who are positive for COVID-19 鈥搑emains consistently far below the 4 percent threshold, at 0.38 percent. This success, combined with Mason鈥檚 95-percent overall vaccination rate, as well as the continued overall drop in COVID-19 spread throughout the region and nation, now make the pivot to optional mask-wearing more viable.
February 23, 2022Amidst the arcade games, ping pong tables, and neon lights of the Corner Pocket sits a brand-new addition: a mural by art and visual technology student Lecsi Pillar.
February 23, 2022With the theme of 鈥淒angerous Unselfishness,鈥 Mason hosted its annual MLK Evening of Reflection and awards ceremony on Tuesday, Feb. 15.
