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A George Mason University team of Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE) won awards for developing a training system to assist people working toward their drone pilot license.

A George Mason University Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE) capstone team was recognized for a new way of looking at the Hexayurt, a rugged, hexagon-shaped structure made from flat, triangular panels that can be quickly assembled in areas hit with natural disasters.

Statistics PhD candidate Shenghao Ye is the first author on a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), a prestigious journal, revealing how Tibetan women have adapted to thrive and reproduce successfully in high-altitude environments.

Tenth birthday party wraps up exceptional mechanical engineering Senior Capstone Day.

George Mason professor Celso Ferreira recently redesigned his Flood Hazard Engineering and Adaptation course to work with community partners to deliver real projects as part of the Institute for a Sustainable Earth’s (ISE’s) NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART) Seed Translational Research Project (STRP) Program.

Led by Associate Professor Jinwei Ye, George Mason University’s Imaging and Vision Lab pioneers breakthroughs in computer vision, computational photography, digital content creation, and immersive technologies—offering students hands-on experience with state-of-the-art imaging systems such as a new Light Stage and Pixel Cube.

Monika Blakely has lived all over the world, but her time at George Mason University has been particularly special.

As the saying goes, if you love something, set it free. If it maps an area, finds a target, delivers a package, and comes back, the trophy is yours forever. Or something like that.

Bioinspired blimps performed swimmingly

George Mason University received a gift with an impact of $36 million from the Kimmy Duong Foundation to name the Long Nguyen and Kimmy Duong School of Computing within the College of Engineering and Computing. The university’s Board of Visitors approved the name change on April 1, and it will become official pending approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia this summer.

The Acoustical Society of America recently elected Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Kathleen Wage as a Fellow, a prestigious honor.

George Mason University and the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry (DOLI) have launched the Mason-DOLI Innovation Lab to advance public sector innovation and enhance occupational safety through AI-enabled predictive analytics.