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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.
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Meet the Mason Nation: Amy Takayama-Perez
By Mason Spirit contributor on March 20, 2019
Amy Takayama-Perez, BA Sociology ’96, MEd Counseling and Development ’02, always knew that she would work with students—but she didn’t know she’d end up as dean of admissions at her alma mater.
360 Classes, 8 Degrees, 1 Family
By Mason Spirit contributor on March 13, 2019
Mary Monsen, née Krappweis, BS Management ’11, says she decided to attend Mason because it was a great school close to home. “I thought Mason offered a very good value proposition: A great education for a reasonable price near a booming job market.”
Q&A with Winter Graduation Speaker Kelly McNamara Corley
By Preston Williams on January 8, 2019
Kelly McNamara Corley, JD ’89, was the 2018 Winter Graduation speaker at the 10 a.m. ceremony.
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Q&A with Winter Graduation Speaker M. Brian Blake
By Preston Williams on January 8, 2019
M. Brian Blake, PhD Information Technology ’00, was the 2018 Winter Graduation speaker at the 2 p.m. ceremony.
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Alumnus Shares His Political Insights As Part of the First Tuesday Speaker Series
By Mason Spirit contributor on December 17, 2018
In October, Danny Diaz, BA Communication ’00, who served as the campaign manager for Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, spent a little more than an hour at the Fenwick Library talking politics with interested students and members of the Mason community as part of the First Tuesday speaker series sponsored by Robinson Professor Steven Pearlstein.
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Melissa Scheldrup, Psychology
By Colleen Kearney Rich on December 17, 2018
Melissa Scheldrup knew she loved psychology and technology, but she wasn’t sure of how to combine those two things into a field of study she could pursue … until she find out about Mason.
Donal Murray, Rehabilitation Science
By Mason Spirit contributor on November 26, 2018
Rehabilitation science PhD student Donal Murray turned his passion for sports into a career.
Saskia Popescu, Biodefense
By Buzz McClain, BA '77 on November 26, 2018
As a child, Saskia Popescu was inspired by the best selling thriller, The Hot Zone. Now a PhD student in Mason’s Biodefense Program, she finds the story to be far more different.
Blake Klocke, Environmental Science and Public Policy
By Colleen Kearney Rich on November 26, 2018
Mason doctoral student Blake Klocke has been interested in amphibians for as long as he can remember. He talks about growing up in Minnesota, where he shared his bedroom with a few dozen frogs, snakes, and geckos, as well as the insects he cultivated to feed them.
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Pouya Gholizadeh, Civil Engineering
By Mason Spirit contributor on November 26, 2018
From the streets of Iran to the housing complexes of Fairfax, Virginia, civil engineering doctoral student Pouya Gholizadeh sees one thing universal to construction sites at both: the safety of the workers.
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