November 8, 2024On a recent field trip to Patuxent River Park in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, undergraduate students from George Mason University’s Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation got to view secretive marsh birds up close, including Virginia and sora rail birds.
August 11, 2022A 1992 Mason Gazette story about the hatching of the very first Komodo dragons born in captivity outside of Indonesia.
July 14, 2022In September 2009, Smithsonian-Mason Semester students took a during a behind-the-scenes tour of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
December 15, 2021Mason senior Eva Noroski spent a month assisting alumna and Elephant Trails keeper Ashley Fortner at the National Zoo, researching elephant sleep patterns.
December 2, 2019Saving an endangered species is possible, but it takes a village. Conservationists, including three George Mason University alumni working at the Smithsonian and a current student, are part of the team at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation (SMSC) working to ensure red pandas move off the endangered list.
