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Mason's Bioengineering Department reached and recognized its 10th year anniversary. Nearly 100 guests celebrated and attended the event on April 4, 2022.

A new donation from Deltek, the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses, is establishing the Deltek Scholars Program, which will provide scholarship support for graduate students pursuing software engineering.

Wing Lam's award winning dissertation pinpoints flaky tests, an important topic for software developers. Lam's work proposes techniques to help developers detect, understand, and fix flaky test results.

Mason statistics students joined citizen scientists from around the world to hedge their bets in the competition and predict peak cherry blossom bloom dates in four locations—Washington, D.C., Kyoto, Japan, Vancouver, Canada, and Liestal-Weideli, Switzerland.  

Strategic thinking and increased research led to a major leap forward in the College of Engineering and Computing’s Department of Statistics ranking.

George Mason University has eight graduate programs listed among the top 25 nationally, according to the latest rankings by U.S. News & World Report, reflecting the university’s reputation of being a top institution for advanced degrees. The list was led by Mason’s part-time law program at the Antonin Scalia Law School, which is No. 1 among public institutions, followed by industrial-organizational psychology at No. 5 nationally. Rounding out the list were Mason’s intellectual property program, three programs at the Schar School of Policy and Government, as well as special education and elementary teacher education at the College of Education and Human Development.

Two PhD students will compete in Mason's Three Minute Thesis finals.

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Giorgio Ascoli, University Professor, in the Department of Bioengineering at George Mason University to its College of Fellows. Ascoli was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the AIMBE College of Fellows for outstanding contributions in the development of open-access resources for data science in the investigation of learning, memory, and neurodegeneration.

George Mason Information Sciences and Technology professor Sherif Hashem was part of a team that produced a report ‘Cyber Incident Management in Low-Income Countries.’

Break Through Tech at George Mason University will be accepting applications starting Friday for its Guild program, which runs from June 6 to June 10.

Winners of the Engineers Week poster competition at George Mason, in the undergraduate and graduate categories, have been selected.

Mason students competed in VMI's Cyber Fusion, bringing home the first place trophy. The event is co-hosted by Sen. Mark R. Warner, the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, and the Virginia Cyber Range.