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Winter 2025 Commencement at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ on Dec. 18 at EagleBank Arena celebrated nearly 5,300 graduates and certificate recipients. George Mason photographers captured the excitement and spirit of the day.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ honored more than 4,900 graduates at Winter Commencement in EagleBank Arena on Thursday.

In a first for any university in the United States, visually impaired baseball players are getting a chance to step up to the plate at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. Led by a volunteer coach and University Life’s Mason Recreation and Disability Services offices, Mason’s Beep baseball initiative is gaining momentum after a successful community learn-to-play clinic last fall.

Student Affairs and Academic Advising professionals from across the country attended the first Student Success Coaching Conference: Ignite Your Success Through Coaching in October. The conference, hosted by ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Student Success Coaching (SSC) unit, provided an opportunity for more than 400 coaching professionals from 100 institutions—including Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Purdue University, and others—to collaborate and learn from each other. 

McKay is now the president of Jim McKay Chevrolet, a sponsor for many student activities and sports at George Mason, and Intercollegiate Athletics has been at the heart of her personal connection with the university. Since the mid-1990s, she’s been an avid Patriots fan, attending many men's and women's basketball games, including the ones out of town, often with her daughters and now her grandchildren.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ will honor nearly 5,300 students graduating or earning certificates at Winter Commencement at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at EagleBank Arena on the Fairfax Campus.

More than two decades ago, three ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ students launched a company from their dorm room with a belief that technology would drive change in the federal government. Today, that company—MetroStar, a venture-backed leader in AI enabled services—has come full circle. The company is proud to announce a multi-year strategic partnership with George Mason, solidifying a shared mission to empower the next generation of tech leaders and public servants.

MetroStar co-founder and chief executive officer Ali Manouchehri, BA Philosophy ’99, is the featured speaker at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Winter Commencement on December 18. Here he talks about his George Mason experience, his company’s partnership with the university, and his advice for new graduates.

The 2006 Final Four run by the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ men’s basketball team was an achievement so improbable, so unprecedented, that it transformed how the college basketball world viewed possibility itself. Now, 20 years later, the Patriots will honor that magical postseason journey on Saturday, December 13, when they host Old Dominion University at EagleBank Arena.

Costello College of Business dean Ajay Vinzé has been named interim provost at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, President Gregory Washington announced Wednesday.

On George Mason’s 300th birthday, we come with a question: What is a legacy? What does it mean to be remembered?

This fall, eight Mason LIFE students interned across 16 different congressional offices on Capitol Hill as part of the Gregg and Livingston Harper Congressional Internship Program for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities.