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In March, Mason alum Kwabena Konadu was recognized for his work by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia with one of the its 2022 Outstanding Faculty Awards, one of the most prestigious teaching awards in the state.

Two Mason students and an alumna received graduate research fellowships through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), and one student was recognized with an honorable mention.

On May 21, 1983, ºÚÁÏÉç awarded its first doctoral degree, a doctor of arts in education, to Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, a teacher at nearby West Springfield High School.

When Mason PhD student Gifty Mensah was working on her master’s degree in microbiology, she realized the tangible impact of research.

For the past decade, Mason alum Germán Perilla, cofounder and director of the Honey Bee Initiative, has led Mason’s honey bee efforts.

George Mason alum Marc Christensen (MS in Electrical Engineering, 1998; PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001) will become the 17th president of Clarkson University.

ºÚÁÏÉç alum Charniele L. Herring has made history with her barrier-breaking career in Virginia state politics.

Mason’s unlikely NCAA Tournament run to the Final Four not only stands out as one of the defining moments in the university’s first 50 years, but it set the stage for later college basketball Cinderella stories.

ºÚÁÏÉç president Gregory Washington posed this question in his first letter to alumni in the Summer 2020 issue of the Mason Spirit.

On April 1, 2006, thousands of ºÚÁÏÉç community members gathered in the Johnson Center to cheer on the men's basketball team as they took on University of Florida in the NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis.