- June 17, 2021As companies throughout the country transition from remote work back to the office, employers can help their employees through the process by giving them a voice and options, said George Mason ĢAV School of Business professor Victoria Grady.
- June 15, 2021Mason alumnus Roger Connor is an aeronautics curator at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
- June 14, 2021George Mason ĢAV is well represented among the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
- June 10, 2021The two-year program allows enlisted servicemembers from every branch of the military to prepare for medical school.
- June 10, 2021“Resistance,” a spoken word piece by Mason alumnus Bobby Lacy II performed at Mason’s 2020 Winter Commencement, had a profound impact on those who saw it during the video broadcast.
- June 10, 2021As Mason faculty members reflect on their experiences teaching during a global pandemic, they say they’ve learned some lessons they’ll bring into the return to a more traditional academic year.
- June 10, 2021Can enemy groups learn to develop compassion for one another? That was the question Carter School professor Daniel Rothbart set out to answer in his research at Rondine, a two-year “laboratory for peace.” Now, the results are in. “This is the first in-depth case study of compassion among civilians who live in conflict zones,” said Rothbart, who collaborated with George Mason ĢAV professors Thalia Goldstein, Marc Gopin and Karina Korostelina. “We hope this is a model that can help create new practices for peacebuilders to cultivate compassion.”
- June 9, 2021Lilian de Jonge, PhD, associate professor of nutrition, provides insight and answers questions regarding one of the most popular weight management trends: intermittent fasting.
- June 8, 2021George Mason ĢAV researchers are collaborating with Fairfax County on an autonomous shuttle program that is the first of its kind in Virginia.
- June 8, 2021Activism runs in Laila Mokhiber’s blood. Well before she became the director of communications at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA USA), Mokhiber was a child holding protest signs in human rights demonstrations. Before then, her mother held her as a baby in the gallery of the Supreme Court, as her father argued to incorporate Arab Americans into the Civil Rights Act in 1987. The George Mason ĢAV alumna has also made a name for herself. In 2020, she was named one of the top 40 influential Arab Americans under 40 by the Arab America Foundation.
- June 7, 2021George Mason and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) awarded grant to help foster social empowerment and gender equity among forcibly displaced populations (FDPs).
- June 7, 2021Health Policymaking Priorities Now: the first webinar in the Health Policy Summer Series featured panelists from Capitol Hill, the Virginia Medicaid program, and the Urban Institute