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George Mason's Board of Visitors held its Dec. 5 meeting on the Science and Technology Campus.

This October, George Mason statistics major Abby Finch took her ambitions to the next level by participating in Major League Baseball's Diversity Pipeline Scout Development Program in Glendale, Arizona.

Over the course of the next few weeks, leading up to the 50th-anniversary celebration on Oct. 19, a series of Q&As, stories, and social media posts will reflect and celebrate the players and coaches who have built the Patriots women's volleyball program into what it is today.

As a first-year setter from Istanbul, Republic of Türkiye, Ozarpaci is embracing new experiences—and tasty fast food—in the nation's capital.

George Mason alumnus and former track star Rob Muzzio, BS ’87, finished fifth in the decathlon competition during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He was one of 10 Patriots who qualified for the Summer Olympics that year.

George Mason University student-athletes continued to post impressive scores in the Academic Progress Rate (APR) release by the NCAA. Four programs produced perfect multi-year NCAA APR scores of 1,000 while a total of 11 teams had a perfect APR for the 2022-23 academic year.

George Mason lacrosse midfielder and biology major Lauren Distad is the 2024 Aimee Willard Commemorative Award recipient.

George Mason University unveiled a completely redesigned logo as the capstone of its three-year-long comprehensive rebrand. The new look, which will include a single logo for the university and its athletics program, asserts George Mason’s emerging identity as a national top 50 public university and Virginia’s top-ranked university for innovation and upward mobility, as well as the commonwealth’s largest, most innovative, and most diverse university.

Ali Tyler picked Mason because of its well-regarded Forensic Science Program and proximity to Washington, D.C., a choice that put her on her preferred career path and also allowed her to flourish as one of the Atlantic 10’s best all-around swimmers.

Robert “Bobby” Kestyn, a graduate student thrower on Mason’s track and field team, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Becky Hartley Memorial Scholarship.