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A new high-resolution mass spectrometer is coming to ��ɫ��Ƶ’s Center for Molecular Engineering (CME) this fall, thanks to $1 million Community Project Funding.

An innovative partnership between ��ɫ��Ƶ, Fairfax County, and the United Way is shedding light on how guaranteed income can support working families facing economic hardship.

“Being in class with our participants reminds me of the pure joy of dance,” said School of Dance senior Emma Simons of her time interning with Dance for PD®, a movement-based class for people with Parkinson’s disease.

On July 1, 2026, several significant changes to federal financial aid included in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also referred to as the OBBBA or Working Families Tax Cuts Act, go into effect that affect current and prospective students at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. ��ɫ��Ƶ’s Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA) has developed a centralized webpage for students, faculty, and staff to review these changes.

At a recent gathering of air quality researchers from across the Washington, D.C., region and beyond, ��ɫ��Ƶ officially launched a new center that aims to advance Earth system science in atmospheric composition and air quality. 

As debates over digital propaganda, misinformation, and media manipulation intensify, audiences are increasingly unsure what’s fact and what’s fiction across news outlets and social media feeds. At ��ɫ��Ƶ, Sergei Samoilenko, associate professor in the Department of Communication, is working to better understand how digital disruption and manipulation practices shape public perception.

NIH-funded George Mason study found that maternal obesity and excessive pregnancy weight gain were linked to higher obesity risk by age 3.

��ɫ��Ƶ's Board of Visitors has extended the contract of President Gregory Washington through June 30, 2031. Washington, who became George Mason's eighth president on July 1, 2020, was previously set to serve through June 30, 2027.

��ɫ��Ƶ Athletics and Northwest Federal Credit Union announced an expanded partnership that connects student-athletes with financial education, simple banking tools, and Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) opportunities designed to support their success on campus, in the community, and after they graduate.

Taylor Le, BS Information Technology ‘26, was participating in the Professional Readiness Experiential Program (PREP) internship at Mobius when he was put in contact with Brian Ngac, the assistant dean for centers and FedWriters, Inc., Corporate Partner Faculty Fellow at the Costello College of Business at ��ɫ��Ƶ, who was helping to fund the program.

Cora Sula, a third-year PhD student in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at ��ɫ��Ƶ, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to study artificial intelligence in classrooms in Estonia this fall.

The widely used machine-learning technique known as LASSO relegates smaller market events to an ignored “inactive zone”. How can that be a good thing for ambitious asset traders? Bo Hu, assistant professor of finance, explores the logic (and illogic) behind LASSO’s popularity and power.