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George Mason rising junior Vidhi Pathak spent a year searching for the perfect summer internship, before landing her current position as asset management intern for Summit Ridge Energy.

Livija Kaktaite started her journey at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ in 2018 as an undergraduate global affairs major. This past May, she graduated with her master’s in international security from the Schar School of Policy and Government. During her time as a Patriot, she also played point guard and shooting guard on the women’s basketball team. Now as an alum, she continues to run up the hill—Capitol Hill.

Lake Rusch’s passion for acting was ignited in seventh grade when they first joined ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Acting for Young People (AFYP) showcase program. They continued to attend the program throughout high school.

The Carter School and College of Engineering and Computing are teaming up on a peace engineering minor.

Supported by an Office of Student Creative Activities and Research Curriculum Impact Grant, this cross-college course gives students hands-on, real-world experience in festival management. 

George Mason computer science students spent six weeks in Vienna Austria earning academic credit in a first-of-its-kind program.

A team from ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ is using augmented reality (AR) to create a smartphone app that will provide first-generation ADVANCE students with a virtual campus tour of the Fairfax Campus as they prepare to transfer from Northern Virginia Community College.

Their study, published in the Journal of Proteome Research, involved extracting wheat proteins from three small leather cover samples obtained from the National Library of Medicine.

The Mason Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic (M-VETS) at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ successfully argued a claim before the Naval Discharge Review Board seeking an Honorable conditions discharge for a United States Marine Corps (USMC) combat veteran.

A group of local rising high school juniors and seniors attended the BioE Buzz Summer Camp hosted by the Department of Bioengineering at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ in June. Throughout the week, campers met students and faculty, received tours of research facilities, and participated in hands-on lab activities. 

Katie Kacher, the 2023-24 master’s in business analytics Student of the Year is proof that hard work, motivation, and organization are the key ingredients to success in graduate business school. Kacher chose the Donald G. Costello College of Business at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ for her graduate degree, primarily due to George Mason’s reputation for high caliber coursework and student outcomes.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ President Gregory Washington was the featured speaker at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Scholarship Ceremony on June 20 and met with scholarship recipients coming to George Mason this fall.