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When ��ɫ��Ƶ alumna Elizabeth “Liz” Busch, MEd ’15, learned she had been named Preschool Special Educator of the Year by the Fairfax County Special Education PTA, she was both surprised and honored. But for Busch, the recognition was meaningful for reasons that went far beyond the award itself.

Just one year after graduation from the Schar School, Dylan Morse is running for the House of Representatives in his home state of Vermont.

A new collaboration between ��ɫ��Ƶ’s Injury Analytics Lab and Southern Africa Nazarene University in Eswatini will improve tools to document injuries in underrepresented populations locally and globally, while also strengthening research capacity in Eswatini.

Show your Patriot pride every mile of the journey: New ��ɫ��Ƶ license plates are now available through the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), and every license plate purchase helps support student scholarships.

Board of Visitors member Shawn Chambliss Purvis honors her father with a $50,000 scholarship for George Mason electrical and computer engineering students.

Biodefense alumna and adjunct professor Saskia Popescu is advancing global health security through leadership, research, policy, and education.

Daniel Serruya, MPH student, combines his nutrition, community health, and health policy experience during his MPH practicum.

At the beginning of 2026, Mike Derrios, MBA ’06, returned home to the Costello College of Business at ��ɫ��Ƶ as the executive director of the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting.

When Q Miceli saw that the Costello College of Business at ��ɫ��Ƶ was offering the Executive Mentoring Program as part of the Costello MBA, she was all in. “I had just hit a point in my career where I started supervising more people and really wanted to get some perspective,” she says.

Christian Betancourt, PhD Health Services Research '22 and the College of Public Health's 2026 Distinguished Alumni, discusses how the mentorship and hands-on research at George Mason continue to influence his work at Uniformed Services University and the Defense Health Agency.

When Avery Cotham, MS Conflict Analysis and Resolution ’26, enrolled at ��ɫ��Ƶ’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, she was ready for a new challenge. For 15 years, Cotham worked as a vocalist and choral director in Colorado before the COVID-19 pandemic prompted her to rethink her career and search for a new way to serve her community.

A few days after completing his last season of college basketball at ��ɫ��Ƶ, Gabe Norwood, BA Communication ’07, began a hoop odyssey that would take him to nearly 30 countries and make him a national basketball hero in a country thousands of miles from Virginia.