Research

The Schar School’s AI-driven Robotic Process Automation has a new name to reflect the fast pace of the technology’s usage. Meet the “Intelligent Automation Initiative.”

In May, a cohort of 20 selected AI and Tech fellows gathered at Mason Square for Mason’s AI Strategies first AI and Tech Policy Summer Institute.

In her new book, Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death (Cornell University Press, January 2023), Mason anthropology professor Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons.

Last fall NASA selected George Mason University’s Anamaria Berea to participate in its independent study team on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).

The invite-only roundtable, hosted by the College of Engineering and Computing at Mason Square, explored the issues, challenges, and solutions to think about as AI technologies rapidly evolve and change.  The roundtable was led by Missy Cummings, director of Mason’s Autonomy and Robotics Center.

On May 9, George Mason University celebrated its research enterprise with Innovation Awards, recognizing the Innovator of the Year and a Mason start-up, and those who received and/or licensed a patent.

Mason Egyptologist Jacquelyn Williamson shares her expertise in episodes of the new Netflix historical docuseries Queen Cleopatra.

Celso Ferreira in George Mason University's College of Engineering and Computing is studying the impact of climate change on jobs in the Chesapeake Bay region.

On March 31, 2023, Mason hosted its seventh annual Mason Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference and Three-Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition

In April, 39 Mason students attended the National Conference on Undergraduate Research at University of Wisconsin­–Eau Claire, where they made new friends, networked, and gained experiences that will help them in their studies and careers.