The Mason Spirit
George Mason University
Where Innovation Is Tradition
A Magazine for the George Mason University Community
Features
Amazing Amazon Alumni
What’s do you get when you pair Virginia’s largest research university with one of the country’s tech giants? An extraordinary workforce.
A Conversation with Anne Holton
Meet Anne Holton, Mason’s seventh–and first female–president
Emerging Artists
The College of Visual and Performing Arts has started a program to support alumni artists at the start of their careers.
Humanities’ Heavy Hitters
Last fall, the Chronicle of Higher Education recognized Mason as the eighth highest recipient of NEH funding in the past decade, with 37 projects receiving funding amounting to more than $5.8 million.
Looking Back Moves Us Forward
As universities across the country are examining their pasts, George Mason University faculty and students have undertaken a research project looking at life a George Mason IV’s home, Gunston Hall.
Studying a Language—and Maybe Preserving It, Too
The research that a Mason professor and students are doing today may help preserve a language for tomorrow.
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Mason Spirit is published three times a year by the Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations in conjunction with the Office of Communications and Marketing.
From the Issue
Arresting Development
More from Profiles
Erin Schaible, MPA ’07, can claim a lot of titles, including mother, Mason alumna, and chief of police for the Fairfax City Police Department–the first woman to hold that title.
Cheers to Class Work!
More from News
NUTR 430/530 Introduction to Wine and Beer has one of the longest waiting lists at the university. Students put their taste buds to the test as they learn how wine and beer influence cultures and people’s relationship with alcohol and food.
Clinical Trial for People with Parkinson’s
More from Research
Mason faculty and students at the College of Health and Human Services are taking some of the lessons learned from a recent spinal cord injury study and applying them to a new study for those with Parkinson’s disease.