Departments
Fall 2005 Features
- Mason's First Major Campaign Raises $142 Million!
- Alumni help celebrate its success
- Wish You Were Here
- Professor's postcard collection puts stamp on local history
- Historic Proportions
- Mason alumni find home at Gunston Hall
Thinking Globally
Since the university's early days, Mason students have had a propensity for social action and service. They pride themselves on making a difference globally and locally with campus chapters of such large-scale operations as Habitat for Humanity and Operation Smile. It is no surprise that this kind of outreach continues beyond graduation, affecting careers and lives around the globe. In this issue, we highlight just of few of our giving alumni.
- Sharing a Child's World
- Art alumna returns to South America to care for needy children
- Empowering Women
- Alumna helps women in war-torn countries to help themselves
- A Profitable Education
- Businessman shares knowledge for a better bottom line
- A Labor of Love
- Education alumna helps establish Salvadoran University
Legends and Lore
- Mason Spirits
- Students collect tales from the pond and beyond
- Ghost Buster
- Fairfax County librarian seeks source of local legend
Inside Patriot Circles
- Princeton Review Names Mason Most Diverse University in Nation
- Mason Receives $25 Million for Construction of a Regional Biocontainment Laboratory
- Mason Expands Presence in Loudoun County
- Alumna Directs Operations at New Loudoun Site
- Build a Bot—Graduate and Middle-school Students Join Forces for an Unusual Summer Camp
- Mason Responds to Hurricane Katrina
- Damon's Grill Comes to Fairfax Campus
Transitions
- Finding the Answers
- Math alumna solves the military's tough dilemmas—and inspired one film character
- The Way She Moves
- Dance alumna returns to find her artistic home
- Through His Lens
- Former Broadside photographer captures Katrina devastation
- More Transitions
About the Spirit
The Mason Spirit is produced for the alumni and friends of George Mason University by the following offices:
- Office of Alumni Affairs
- Christine Clark-Talley, executive director
- Andy Ackley, associate director
- Katie Mirick, MPA '03, assistant director
- Darren Silvis, assistant director
- Carole Richardson, office manager
- Office of University Relations
- Colleen Kearney Rich, MFA '95, project manager
- Joan Dall' Acqua, graphic designer
- EPUBS, web design