April 12, 2021The newly created Patriot Pathbreakers Award will be presented at the Outstanding Achievement Awards ceremony April 13 to three staff teams for their work over the past year.
April 12, 2021Last fall, faculty teams were invited to submit proposals describing thematic hiring opportunities. The decision committee evaluated 14 proposals for innovation and timeliness, alignment with Mason strengths, recruiting plans and hiring strategies.
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March 31, 2021Terri Vanderberg, senior associate director of admissions, is the Employee of the Month for April.
March 18, 2021Mason President Gregory Washington praised the Mason community for its collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it “as great of a team effort as I’ve ever seen in academia,” in remarks at a general faculty meeting Wednesday, which was televised on GMU-TV.
March 15, 2021Mason's Employee of the Month program is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month of highlighting the achievements of Mason’s staff. The program has recognized the hard work of 360 Mason employees since its inception in 1991.- March 11, 2021In this month's column, Faculty Senate Chair Shannon Davis is urging faculty to attend the General Faculty meeting at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17, via Zoom. This is the first General Faculty meeting since 2000 where business will be conducted, and a quorum is required.
March 8, 2021The eastern region of Ukraine has been an intense battleground since 2014, when Russia controversially annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and invaded the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. Though a ceasefire was called, it has been violated daily. More than 10,000 people have died and roughly 1.6 million are registered as internally displaced people (IDP). But a step toward hope and peace may be on the horizon, thanks to George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and their new project funded by a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.
