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Erica King, who earned both her BS and PhD in bioengineering from ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, received the prestigious 2026 Cosmos Scholars Prize for her innovative research on wearable ultrasound technology. 

George Mason will soon offer a doctoral degree in cybersecurity, a milestone reflecting the rapid evolution of the field and the continued growth of the university's Department of Cyber Security Engineering (CYSE).

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.

This past spring, nearly a dozen George Mason students received nationally competitive fellowships and scholarships, supporting work across a wide range of fields.

The scholarship funds, awarded to Michael DeMarco, will support the composition of an original jazz fusion work incorporating Persian pop and folk music influences.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ faculty members and graduate students from the Department of History and Art History and the Center for Mason Legacies (CML) shared their expertise as speakers at the Fairfax 250 history day, a county event held as part of the statewide commemoration of the nation's semiquincentennial.

Cora Sula, a third-year PhD student in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to study artificial intelligence in classrooms in Estonia this fall.

PhD student Shiwei Hong developed a collaborative multi-agent AI system that mimics a comedy writers’ room, demonstrating that discussion and feedback among agents improve the quality of machine-generated humor.

Aayush Yadav co-authored a paper that received a Distinguished Paper Award from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, one of the industry’s premier conferences in the security field.

Oakley Hill, a PhD candidate at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, leverages Root Narrative Theory (RNT) to analyze how political narratives shape public perception, ideology, and voting behavior in the United States. His research, including the national Justice Languages of America Survey, highlights the distinct ways liberals, conservatives, and moderates interpret political conflict while advancing practical conflict resolution through mediation and facilitation work.