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Center Creates New Lyme Disease Test
By John Hollis on April 4, 2021
A urine-based Lyme disease test created by a team of George Mason University researchers could soon become available statewide after a recent clinical validation study confirmed that it meets sensitivity and absolute molecular specificity standards.
A Record Year for Research
By Colleen Kearney Rich on March 1, 2021
Mason researchers across academic disciplines are hard at work answering questions that matter.
Art Meets Analytics
By Colleen Kearney Rich on August 18, 2020
A team from Mason helped the National Gallery of Art measure the popularity of artists in their collection during their first-ever datathon, “Coding Our Collection.”
Preserving the Buchanan Legacy
By Mason Spirit contributor on August 18, 2020
The George Mason University Libraries received a $334,720 grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities to preserve the papers of the late Nobel laureate and Mason professor James M. Buchanan.
D.C. Is Where the Wild Things Are
By Mariam Aburdeineh, BA ’13 on December 18, 2019
Ever wonder what creatures might be roaming in the dark when you’re not looking? Mason students are helping the Smithsonian Institution find out exactly what is scurrying in the shadows.
Clinical Trial for People with Parkinson’s
By Mary Lee Clark on November 8, 2019
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.
Sidebar: In the Stacks
By Colleen Kearney Rich on July 1, 2019
While not every NEH grant results in a book, many do. Faculty often use the year or summer away from teaching to write a draft of the book they are planning.
Humanities’ Heavy Hitters
By Mary Lee Clark on July 1, 2019
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
By Mary Lee Clark on June 27, 2019
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
By Art Taylor, MFA '06 on June 27, 2019
The research that a Mason professor and students are doing today may help preserve a language for tomorrow.
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