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Sylvia Schreiner is on a mission to record and help maintain the Yupik language on St. Lawrence Island, and she has the support of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant to do it.

George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú researcher Allison Jack recently received an Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) Network award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her research efforts aimed at understanding why some autistic individuals receive very late diagnoses, or none at all.  

Mason psychology doctoral student Rafael Esaú Hernández Dubon thrives in his work as a bilingual student clinician. With the support of a Graduate Inclusion and Access (GIA) Scholarship, he is able to work in the Latinx community while pursuing his graduate studies.

Mason alum Andrew Joseph White, who graduated with an MFA in creative writing in May, published his first young adult (YA) book, Hell Followed with Us, an LGBTQ post-apocalyptic horror story, less than a month later in June 2022.

On Friday, October 7, George Mason Â鶹¹ú²ú dedicated a Virginia historic site and celebrated the university–community partnership that helped preserved it.

On September 23, 2011, Stephen King spoke at Mason’s Fall for the Book and accepted the Mason Prize for his extraordinary contributions to bringing literature to a wide reading public.

Sophia Ramirez participated in Mason’s Early Identification Program. Now she is a Â鶹¹ú²ú Scholar in the Honors College, majoring in history.

Mason graduate students helped the environment, nonprofit organizations and the local community with summer projects through the Sustainability Summer Graduate Research Fellowships. This summer marked the first time Mason’s Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) has offered the fellowship program.

In an effort to expose students to some of the social and political problems of the vast Spanish-speaking world, Mason’s Department of Modern and Classical Languages is hosting a Spanish Film Festival that is free and open to the public.

Mason psychology professor Thalia Goldstein's Social Skills, Imagination, and Theater Lab primarily focuses on how children’s social and emotional development is impacted by their engagement in fictional worlds, including television and books.