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17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot

Missy Cummings, a former NHTSA senior safety advisor, and Mason professor, details the risk of autonomous vehicles and how to mitigate them.

Adjunct Professor George Siragusa, organized an opportunity for mechanical engineering students to participate in virtual panel discussions with executives from two local companies.

Alumna Sandra Cauffman and her work in NASA is featured in the children's book Women in Engineering, which is the fourth book in the Science Wide Open: Women in STEM series.

On Jan. 9, over 400 students from five counties and 22 high schools came together at Mason for CyberSlam 2023, to get hands-on learning about opportunities in cybersecurity. The huge gathering was deemed a state affair, as interest in CyberSlam increased significantly from last year.

Through the NoVa Node of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, George Mason is offering students paid internships in a cybersecurity of technology start-up or small business, within the Northern Virginia area. Pay is $18 an hour. Internships will start Spring of 2023 and run six to ten weeks.

Mason researchers Jeffrey Moran in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rémi Veneziano in the Department of Bioengineering, and Monique van Hoek, a microbiologist in the School of Systems Biology, won the NBIB R21 Trailblazer award. The team will research methods to dissolve harmful biofilms.

George Mason University invites over 200 researchers from around the world to a virtual workshop, to discuss and examine the effects of global warming from clouds generated by aircraft.

Through an NSF grant titled Situated Algorithmic Thinking: Preparing the Future Computing Workforce for Ethical Decision-Making through Interactive Case Studies, students will develop the mindset to tackle ethics in the digital technology space.

Gurdip Singh has been named as the new divisional dean for the School of Computing and professor in the College of Engineering and Computing.