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George Mason University bioengineering alumna Alessandra Coogan took advantage of all the opportunities associated with her internship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this summer.

Evgenios Kornaropoulos, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, presented a conference paper at the flagship conference of Computer Security, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in May 2024. The paper was a Pwnie Award finalist at the DEFCON Hacking Conference.

George Mason University bioengineering student Berk Kasimcan spent his summer internship working on a proof of concept for what could be described as sunglasses for buildings. 

George Mason's Bioengineering Department chair is working on a novel way to reduce blood clots related to implanted medical devices.

In this role, Shehu will lead the strategy and implementation of AI across research, academics, and partnerships for the university, maximizing opportunity and adoption in addressing the world’s grand challenges while leading on ethical considerations, governance, and risk mitigation.

Amir Hasan, office manager in the Department of Statistics, is the September Employee of the Month.

Andre Marshall, Liza Wilson Durant, and student Dylan Knoff are quoted.

The Virginia Cyber Navigator Internship Program (VA-CNIP) has equipped students with the skills to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of election infrastructures. As an intern last summer, information technology major Duong Thuy Nguyen helped secure a rural county’s technology for the upcoming presidential election alongside two George Mason peers. 

Finding accurate information about disability services presents a challenge in the face of misinformation. Through the Mapping Information Ecology project, Assistant Professor Myeong Lee worked with the Virginia Board of People with Disabilities (VPBD) to study the issue. 

Fourteen local high school students spent a week in August learning about renewable energy from electrical engineering professor Liling Huang and a host of local energy engineering professionals. At the end of the week, the students presented their work, a model town powered entirely by clean energy.  

A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study policy and scientific challenges in making bus fleets less dependent on fossil fuel will bring together experts from a variety of disciplines and three major universities. See what they hope to accomplish, and why.

Dmitry Oleynik began attending events hosted by George Mason University’s Early Identification Program as an eighth grader. The program, along with early support from his family, helped him develop an interest in engineering.