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Bioengineering undergrad Medhini Sosale wins one of the highest rewards—the Goldwater Scholarship—in the U.S. for undergrad students interested in developing STEM research careers.

Members of the George Mason National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) chapter received the Region 2 Small Chapter of the Year Award.

Students like Sosale encapsulate Mason’s spirit of innovative and engaging undergraduate scholarship. Next year, the Goldwater Scholarship, which provides up to $7,500 as a stipend to its recipients will allow Sosale to continue her research, and help propel her academic career forward.

Duminda Wijesekera receives the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Impact Award for his research projects ranging from autonomous vehicle security to smart building.

Corporate partners ComSovereign, Widelity, and OPNT unveiled the latest addition to the Cyber Living Innovation Lab's growing technological capabilities.

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.