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Mason alum Jorge Andres will call Super Bowl LVI for Telemundo

Mason’s Alison Cuellar and Leah Adams have received a $54,918 grant from the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation for their study on health equity and the impact of Medicaid telehealth policy.

As a junior and senior at Annandale High School in Virginia, Emily Sample spent her summers as a docent at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She was a teenager who had just lost a friend to police violence, she said, and joining the museum’s Young Ambassadors Program resonated with her. “I was fascinated and continue to be fascinated by this highly illogical idea of genocide,” said Sample, a PhD candidate at ������’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

������ assistant professor Zhisheng Yan in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology will lead a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER research project called Machine-centered Cyberinfrastructure for Panoramic Video Analytics in Science and Engineering Monitoring to further develop and enhance machine centric video compression and transmission.

Granted an extra year of athletic eligibility by the NCAA (something all student-athletes received because of the pandemic), Mason graduate student Jaylen Simmons set his sights on a goal that has been elusive despite his record-setting Patriot career: earning a spot in the NCAA championships.

In celebration of the university's 50th anniversary, Mason was recognized by the Virginia General Assembly for "extraordinary efforts to promote educational access and excellence in the Commonwealth."

To support Afghan refugees needing to relaunch their careers in the United States, ������ is inviting scholars and researchers who have recently left Afghanistan to request an academic appointment as visiting scholars.

Innovate for Good is a new ongoing series that examines how faculty in the College of Health and Human Services are improving health outcomes using technology such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and personal apps. Part I explores two social work faculty who are using apps and virtual reality to improve the lives and health of those they work with.

������ received a $250,000 gift from Google to be used by the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) and the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) for equity-focused computing education. The money will be divided equally between the two colleges.

Nirmal Jeevi Ghimire awarded NSF Career Award for quantum science research on synthesis and study of magnetic topological materials

Leah Adams and Amarda Shehu honored with SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Awards

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